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Cold Rape
Director: Robert Ellmann
Country: Czech Republic
8 min / Color / DVD
Genre: Experimental
Year: 2010
Original Language: Czech
English Subtitles: No
Despite its title and due to its design, Cold Rape is a fun film suitable even for children. She hazards home through the ugly corridors of the industrial wasteland. The cruel detritus of the city moves against her, as does a gentle giant. Who will her perpetrator be? What crime shall be committed against her? What ignominy awaits?!
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Exit / Salida
Director: Oscar Grijalba
Country: El Salvador
17 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Drama
Year: 2009
Original Language: Spanish
English Subtitles: Yes
Carlos, joven desempleado con un titulo universitario, no paga su casa hace varios meses (desde la muerte de su madre); sin servicio de energia electrica ni agua esta a punto de ser embargado y quedar en la calle; su major amigo ya no le presta dinero, busca trabajo y no tiene respuesta positive, frustrado por tanto esfuerzo estudiando y no ha tienido frutos decide suicidarse, una llamanda telefonica evita tal intento y para obtener dinero su unica salida es hacer un show de baile en un bar.
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George Washington in Barbados
Director: Mary-Jane Gomes
Country: USA / Barbados
24 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Docu-Drama
Year: 2007
Original Language: English
English Subtitles: YES
A High definition docu-drama, shot in the United States and Barbados, which tells the story of a little known episode in American and Barbados history, when a 19 year old George Washington and his half-brother Lawrence journeyed to Barbados in 1751 and stayed for two months. It was the first and only trip that George Washington would take outside of America and it changed his life and galvanized his fortunes forever.
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Incident at Tower 37
Director: Chris Perry
Country: USA
11 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Animation
Year: 2008
Original Language: English
In the middle of a dry, desolate landscape stands Tower 37: a shimmering water processing station, siphoning every last drop of water from a once pristine lake. Day in and day out the station’s lone steward monitors the tower’s activities, never realizing that Tower 37 is slowly destroying an entire ecosystem. But when two unexpected guests arrive, the tower’s operator learns the high cost of his ignorance.
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Jungle Spirits
Director: Robert Flanagan
Country: Belize
13 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Drama/Fiction
Year: 2009
Original Language: English
Living for many years in the rain forest of Belize , Central America , we have become increasingly aware of a natural force that the local people call spirits. Jungle Spirits is a Fable telling the story of two girls venturing out into the Jungle on ALL SOULS DAY, Nov. 1 and 2 in search of the spirits, despite warnings from their parents.
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Newspaper 3, 4, 5 / Diario 3, 4, 5
Director: Carmen Pellicer
Country: El Salvador
13 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Drama
Year: 2009
Original Language: Spanish
English Subtitles: Yes
Three days, two moments in life, two people and two news headlines. In El Salvador , at the end of the day no one is ascertained another day of life and anyone can become another newspaper headline.
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Parapsi
Director: Miguel Villafuerte
Country: El Salvador
24 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Drama
Year: 2009
Original Language: Spanish
English Subtitles: Yes
Barbara, Lucia y Daniela, - grandmother, mother and daughter respectively- take a weekend trip to their family lake house. Because of animosity between grandmother and granddaughter, Lucia has been planned the trip in hopes to mend the relationship. However, while there, a dark secret Barbara hides will be discovered as the reason why Barbara and her granddaughter don’t get along. Their weekend getaway abruptly takes and unexpected ending.’
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Seasickness / La Marea
Director: Armando Capo Ramos
Country: Cuba
26 min / Color / DVD
Genre: Fiction
Year: 2009
Original Language: Spanish
A man rejected by society, lives in an old wreck anchored somewhere in the bay of Santiago de Cuba. One day, he receives a mysterious call that makes him eager to get in touch with other people again.
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The Assignment / La Tarea
Director: Milagro Farfan Morales
Country: CUBA
28 min / Color / DVD
Genre: Fiction
Year: 2009
Original Language: Spanish
Sayne, an eight-year old girl, must write a short story about her family for her school homework. As she keeps writing, she rediscovers her family members: dad, mom, and mom’s girlfriend. Although her mother has been with her girlfriend for quite long, now Sayne begins to understand that her family is somewhat different because her mom’s partner is another woman. She loves both anyway, but she doesn’t like to be treated differently, though.
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The Caged Bird
Director: Andre Johnson
Country: Trinidad &Toabgo
27mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Drama
Year: 2009
Original Language: English
As a sheltered teenaged girl goes off to live on campus, she releases her pet bird Bernie, who much to her dismay, was promptly killed. Later, on campus, she succumbs to the glitz and glamour of party life; drinking alcohol, passing out and being sexually abused bye strangers. She is later deceived into smoking crack-cocaine subsequently becoming a crack-addict trading all her valuables especially those pertaining her studies like her laptop and even her books in return for crack. At her lowest point, the crack-dealers suggest the unthinkable and she agrees. While in the middle of the act she sees clearly what she’s become and cries out repeatedly “A Caged Bird was never meant to be set free.”
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The Minutes, The Hours / Los Minutos, Las Horas
Director: Janaina Marques Ribeiro
Country: Cuba
10 min / Color / DVD
Genre: Fiction
Year: 2009
Original Language: Spanish
Yoli has always lived with her mother in a humble neighbourhood of Havana. One day, a man invites her out and she decides to wait for him rejecting, for the first time, her mother’s company.
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The Roe Effect
Director: Kiel Adrian Scott
Country: USA
19 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Short Drama
Year: 2009
Original Language: English
In a world frighteningly similar to our own, Dawn, a high school girl, and Sam , her girlfriend, are madly in love. But when Dawn falls victim to an unwanted pregnancy a chain of events are set in motion that could reveal a secret so powerful that it could destroy all she hold dear. In the face of considerable challenges, Dawn must choose between exposing a painful truth and loosing the girl she loves.
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Tormented / Atormentada
Director: Sergio Rosa
Country: El Salvador
11 mins 57 secs / Color / DVD
Genre: Animation
Year: 2009
Original Language: Spanish
English Subtitles: Yes
This the animated story of a young girl who was mistreated in life. She is brought back from the dead with a vengeance- to make everyone suffer the torment she suffered!
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Twenty Years / Veinte Años
Director: Bárbaro Joel Ortiz
Country: Cuba
15 mins / Color / DVD
Genre: Animation for adults
Year: 2009
Original Language: Spanish
Como la canción escrita por María Teresa Vera y Guillermina Aramburu, una mujer, que lleva dos décadas de matrimonio, hace hasta lo imposible por sostenerlo. Ella se ha ido desdibujando poco a poco en la rutina diaria: cocinarle al marido, tenerle la ropa lista, la casa limpia... Pero él la ignora y solo tiene atención para la botella de ron, la pelota y el televisor; esos vicios que disfruta desde su trono: el único sillón que existe dentro de la casa. Hasta un buen día que...
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