Midnight Oil (Liam McArdle) 30 minutes 15         

Set during the UK fuel crisis of 2000 •Midnight Oil' explores the futility of people's reliance on oil. As the situation becomes more desperate so too do the characters methods of getting their hand on exactly what they want.                                          

Frames Per Second (Samuel George) 17 minutes 12          

Dylan, an elderly man with Downs Syndrome, was bought up in institutions and locked away from society. He has always obsessed about films, but one night while helping out in the local cinema he discovers a world outside the one that has kept him safe.

 

Shell Ear (Satoru Sugita) 35 minutes 15      

A wife nestles to the husband who gave up the performance of a violin because of the decline of an ear, which comes from advanced age. The husband of dementia wanders about in search of public telephone in order to telephone a wife's cellular phone.

 

Paper Anniversary (Joern Utkilen) 10 minutes 15  

A woman wants to make a baby with her husband. In the end she gets her way.    

 

Big Bother (Garry Moore) 10 minutes 15   

Garry's obsession with getting on the TV show "Big Brother", and his insistence on setting girlfriend Debbie a daily task, strains their already fragile relationship.

 

Vortice Marzio (Mirabella and Massimo Stella)      7 minutes 12A

A water mirror like a passage for another world. But wonder became a trap if you've watching TV having a bath.   

                                                                                                           

Meal 6 (Luc Rioche)  10 minutes 18

The film shows the frustration of a young man who explodes in an Asian cafe but pays the price.        

 

Images From A Reflect (Marius Rubio) 7 minutes 15        

The story of a remembered time. A finished relationship is still in the brain, and time doesn't blow it away. A place, an obsession that always comes back, again and again.

 

While You Sleep (Canek Kelly) 10 minutes 15      

The new neighbour, Edmundo, wakes -up the unconscious mind of this building in Mexico City and all the dreams begin to merge.        

 

Without Conflict (Luke Sewell) 10 minutes U                                                                                            

Star Wars: Revelations (Shane Felux) 45 minutes U                                 

The new film made for Star Wars fans by Star Wars fans with the express permission of George Lucas.

                                                                                                                       

Dear Wendy (Thomas Winsberg & Lars Van Trier) 90 minutes

With Dear Wendy, THOMAS VINTERBERG the director sets his sights firmly on a universe in which a group of peace-loving young people in a poor mining town in the American southeast unexpectedly develop a passion for guns. LARS VON TRIER has written the screenplay and once again the two Dogme 95 brothers have embarked on a unique collaboration. The film features a powerful international cast, with the young talent JAMIE BELL (Billy Elliot) in the leading role as sharp-shooting pacifist Dick and BILL PULLMAN (Lost Highway, Independence Day) playing the local sheriff, Krugsby, who tries to maintain law and order. When DICK (JAMIE BELL) happens upon a small handgun one day, he finds himself strangely drawn to it, despite his fervent pacifist views. Together with his newfound partner he soon convinces the other young outcasts in the town to join him in a secret club he calls The Dandies. A club based on the principals of pacifism and guns. Despite their firm belief in the most important Dandy rule of all •never draw your weapons' - they soon find themselves in a predicament where they realise that rules are made to be broken.

 

Dear Wendy - Post Production and Marketing Discussion

Mads Jorgensen from Mac Million Ltd. Will be giving a presentation on Digital film making and the film Dear Wendy on the 4th of August at the launch of the Portobello Film Festival. The talk will centre on the troubles and pleasures of doing the postproduction on the Film Dear Wendy. Mac Million is one of the forerunners of HD post-production in Europe and specialise in HD Features, Shorts, Promos, Commercials & News Items worldwide.

Henrietta Ludgate & Tom Grievson from Metrodome Distribution will give a talk on the promotion and marketing strategy's used for the film Dear Wendy.