Crossing the line (Il passaggio della linea)
Pietro Marcello| 2007 | 60 min | Italy

Crossing the line is a journey across Italy to set to the rythm of long-distance express trains, long abandoned to a destiny of slow decay, as they cross the Italian peninsula from South to North and back again, in a trip spanning night and day. It is a succession of landscapes, buildings, faces, dialects, voices and lives which blend together onboard the trains.

It happened just before (Kurz davor ist es passiert)
Anja Salomonowitz | 2006 | 72 min | Austria

Five people in their everyday surroundings tell stories that they have never experienced personally. They recount tales of people involved in trafficking in women. They tell of exploitation, violence and force. They tell of realities which have happened and which might have happened in the places shown.

Stray cats (chats errants)
Yaël André| 2007 | 68 min | Belgium

Like a puzzle, this film works on different elements: a guided tour in the waste lands of three cities (Brussels, Hamburg, Roma), a documentary about stray cats and the people who food it, some choreography of daily gesture, a question about cartography (and the common using of space), like a "wink" about the human Order and Chaos… and a statement on the present difficulties of the Inutility!

Elder Blossom (Holunderblüte)
Volker Koepp | 2007 | 89 min | Germany

Stories from the Kaliningrad region and its inhabitants: with the calamity of unemployment and the ravages of alcohol, many children are left to their own devices, in landscapes that are retuning to the wild. Games, dreams, solidarity, and the fierce will to live defy a forsaken world.

The Houses of Hristina (De huizen van Hristina)
Suzanne Raes | 2007 | 50 min | Netherlands

Hristina is invisible. Quiet and unnoticed, she cleans houses. Each day a different house each day the same work. She is a Bulgarian, living in Amsterdam. Contact with her employers takes place mainly through notes. To come to terms with her life, she takes photographs of the interiors of ‘her’ houses. Together these photos from the house she inhabits in the Netherlands. A house that holds her prisoner.

The birth of cinema (Kuxa Kanema)
Margarida Cardoso | 2003 | 52 min | Portugal

The first cultural act of the nascent Mozambique Government after independence in 1975 was to create the National Institute of Cinema (INC). The INC, through the production of a weekly newsreel, Kuxa Kanema, tried to create a national identity beyond tribal loyalties, to be more than propaganda, and to educate the people in what it meant to be a citizen of a unified independent nation. After it burned in 1991, the building has been abandonned. The forgotten images that captured the first eleven years of independency - the years of the socialist revolution - are rotting, taking with them both the history of a period, and the history of hope.

Paratiisi ­ Kolme matkaa tässä maailmassa
(Paradise : Three journeys in the world)
Elina Hirvonen | 2007 | 51 min | Finland

The journey is to Almeria, Spain where illegal immigrants harvest vegetables for European consumers. Here we meet Bakary Fofana who dreams of a better life while thinking of his family back home. « I thought that when I got to Europe, everything would be fine. When I came to Europe, I cried. When I came to Spain, I cried”. A documentary about immigration from Africa to Europe.

Markus Raetz
Iwan Schumacher| 2007 | 75 min | Switzerland

Swiss artist Markus Raetz may be an established great on the international art scene, but little is know about him personally. Filmmaker Schumacher gains a first-time insight into the artist’s work of 40 years, a man of extraordinary perception. His works amaze as though they were created by a magician: poetic, ironic and often erotic. His drawings, pictures and sculptures are constructed illusions that question our ways of seeing and show us life from a very different side.

La République
Denis Gheerbrant| 2009 | 90 min | France

The Rue de la République in Marseilles is being sold off in slices, but there is still the republic of the men and women who refuse to disappear and, through this refusal, reveal themselves