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Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 3:34 PM Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 1 PM	RABBIT DIRECTOR: RUN WRAKE GREAT BRITAIN When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, its magical abilities lead to riches, but for how long? ( 9 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 3:45 PM Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 1 PM	YEAH! YEAH! YEAH DIRECTOR: MARçAL FORéS SPAIN Combine a dash of Heathers, add a hip soundtrack and mucho style and you have an original take on hell, heartbreak, and the infinite possibilities of teen love. ( 12 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 3:45 PM Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 1 PM	THE DANISH POET DIRECTOR: TORILL KOVE CANADA/NORWAY In this fairy tale misadventure, a young bard in search of inspiration goes to Norway to meet his favorite author and instead sets off an amusing sequence of accidental encounters. ( 15 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 3:45 PM Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 1 PM	K–7 DIRECTOR: CHRISTOPHER LEON UNITED STATES In this clever comedy, a job interview turns deadly when one man rates a mysterious "K–7" on his psychological profile. ( 18 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 3:45 PM Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 1 PM	BACKGROUND SIREN DIRECTOR: ARCADI PALERM&NDASH;ARTíS MEXICO Everybody is trying to convince grandmother of her impending death, but she isn't quite ready to go. ( 15 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 3:45 PM Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 1 PM	TRANSACTION DIRECTOR: JACQUES THELEMAQUE UNITED STATES A cinema–verité exploration of the shifting dynamic between a seasoned call girl and her first time client. ( 14 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 3:45 PM Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 1 PM	ERAMOS POCOS DIRECTOR: BORJA COBEAGA SPAIN Faced with an unexpected departure, Joaquin and his stay–at–home adult son resort to a unique strategy to restore domestic happiness. But who is being fooled? ( 16 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 3:45 PM Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 1 PM	WE'RE GOING TO THE ZOO DIRECTOR: JOSH SAFDIE UNITED STATES Two siblings accidentally pick up a hitchhiker and begin a whirlwind adventure on the way to the zoo. Life is in the journey. ( 15 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 3:45 PM Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 1 PM	PHANTOM CANYON DIRECTOR: STACEY STEERS UNITED STATES A young woman encounters enormous insects and an alluring man with bat wings in a fantastical collage–animation journey through memories. ( 10 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 8:45 PM Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 6 PM	C NOTE DIRECTOR: CHRIS HINTON CANADA A single musical note explodes into a spray of images and forms that suggest freedom and control, improvisation and discipline—ideas inherent in the structure of sound. ( 7 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 8:45 PM Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 6 PM	TRAGIC STORY WITH HAPPY ENDING DIRECTOR: REGINA PESSOSA CANADA Pessoa contrasts photocopies with images scratched into India ink on glossy paper to tell a story of a frail girl with an oddly rapid heart beat, who struggles to feel comfortable in her own body and whose only wish is to fit in. ( 8 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 8:45 PM Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 6 PM	HAPPINESS DIRECTOR: SOPHIE BARTHES, UNITED STATES UNITED STATES One evening after work, Iwona buys a box of "happiness" in a strange discount store and has to decide what to do with it. ( 12 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 8:45 PM Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 6 PM	NOISE DIRECTOR: GREG SPOTTISWOOD CANADA A boy locks himself in a car. A man tries to get him out. What began as a game turns into a war. ( 16 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 8:45 PM Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 6 PM	INTERIOR DIRECTOR: PATRICK POUBEL FRANCE Criquet loves his grandfather, a genuine memories collector who dreams of flying away but not before leaving his grandson a pure moment of eternity. ( 10 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 8:45 PM Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 6 PM	MONSTER DIRECTOR: JENNIFER KENT AUSTRALIA A young single mother struggles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house. She feels something is seriously wrong with the boy. Until one night she spies something deep in the corner of the closet. ( 10 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 8:45 PM Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 6 PM	CITY PARADISE DIRECTOR: GAELLE DENIS GREAT BRITAIN A young Japanese woman's first experiences in London. ( 6 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 8:45 PM Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 6 PM	THE FENCE DIRECTOR: RICARDO ISCAR, NACHO MARTIN SPAIN As thousands of migrating tuna fish crowd into the Mediterranean on their way through the Strait of Gibraltar, Spanish fisherman await their arrival in a centuries–old Moorish ritual tradition called "La Almadraba." ( 12 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 8:45 PM Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 6 PM	EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY DIRECTOR: DON HERTZFELDT UNITED STATES A series of dark events force Bill to reckon with the meaning of lifeÃ?or lack thereof. An animated short created entirely without computers! ( 17 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12 PM	SCAREDYCAT DIRECTOR: ANDREW BLUBAUGH UNITED STATES The filmmaker's brutal mugging spurs further introspection as he asks himself the difficult questions about the nature of his fears, the trickiness of racism and injustice in our justice system. ( 13 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12 PM	FINCA EL INJERTO DIRECTOR: TREVOR FIFE/AUTUMN CAMPBELL UNITED STATES A quiet and poetic celebration of the –workers who grow, pick, and process coffee on a farm in Guatemala. ( 9 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12 PM	ROUTE 23 DIRECTOR: BRIAN LIBBY UNITED STATES A choice seat on the second story of a double–decker bus, the 23, as it quietly goes about its day in London. ( 2 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12 PM	A PAINFUL GLIMPSE INTO MY WRITING PROCESS (IN LESS THAN 60 SECONDS) DIRECTOR: CHEL WHITE UNITED STATES Dark and humorous, this extremely short film is a stream–of–conscious look at the writing process, told with animated images straight from the subconscious... or somewhere. ( 1 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12 PM	MUSICAL OFFERING DIRECTOR: NICK PETERSON UNITED STATES With his exceptional sense of framing, Peterson's flow of horizontal tracking shots resonate within Aanton Webern's famed arrangement of J.S. Bach's musical offering. ( 8 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12 PM	SPHERES DIRECTOR: JEREMY BIRD UNITED STATES Simple animated toys illuminate, ricochet, whoosh and explode in a noisy microcosm. ( 1 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12 PM	A MOVING FAMILY STORY DIRECTOR: NOAH STANIK UNITED STATES A family moves to Seattle in a last ditch effort to save a marriage that was probably doomed to begin with. ( 27 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12 PM	FIFTY YEARS LATER DIRECTOR: MATT MCCORMICK UNITED STATES "Composed of footage shot by myself and my grandfather, Fifty Years Later, is a cinematic road–trip in search of family memories."—MM ( 2 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12 PM	ACTAEON AT HOME DIRECTOR: VLADIMIR UNITED STATES Our hero sits at home with his typewriter confronted with visions of a fallen stag and an exhilarating railroad action sequence. ( 12 min ) Sponsored by Laika. ^ Top
Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 12 PM	SOUTH OF TEN DIRECTOR: LIZA JOHNSON UNITED STATES In 10 very short stories, residents of the destroyed Mississippi Gulf Coast act out atmospheric scenes of everyday life and the relentlessness of labor in their extreme landscape. ( 10 min ) ^ Top
Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 6:30 PM	Site specific—LAS VEGAS 05 DIRECTOR: OLIVO BARBIERI, CANADA/ITALY CANADA/ITALY In this installment of his aerial studies of major cities, a tilt–shift lens engenders a selective and surreally sharp focus. The already uncanny world of Las Vegas is transformed into a spectacularly miniature toyscape, creating "the city as an avatar of itself." ( 12 min ) ^ Top
Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 6:30 PM	0778 man.road.river DIRECTOR: MARCELLVS L BRAZIL A brilliant minimalist film with an exemplary use of visual material, Marcellvs L obtains the maximum of allegorical effect with an enigmatic dimension. ( 9 min ) ^ Top
Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 6:30 PM	THIS IS MY LAND DIRECTOR: BEN RIVERS GREAT BRITAIN Jake Williams lives alone in the forest near Aberdeenshire, Scotland, sustaining himself with little need from others. But it isn't about nostalgia for some treasured, pre–electric past, but more about a very real future. ( 14 min ) ^ Top
Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 6:30 PM	A BRIDGE OVER THE DRINA DIRECTOR: XAVIER LUKOMSKI BELGIUM About the war in Bosnia we remember above all names of cities like Sarajevo, Mostar, Bihac, Tuzla, Gorazde, and the massacre in Sebrenica. But we don't remember Visegrad, a city with a bridge. A symbolic and majestic bridge—a symbol, a pillory, a mausoleum, a witness. ( 17 min ) ^ Top
Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 6:30 PM	THRESHOLD OF TRANSIENCE aka the Dike of Transience DIRECTOR: GUYLA NEMES HUNGARY The sunlight, scratches and flashes of the expired film and in–camera edits breathe together with the people living in a place that will soon no longer be. ( 13 min ) ^ Top
Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 6:30 PM	CROSSINGS DIRECTOR: ROBERT FENZ UNITED STATES A wall exists along parts of the border, insulating those on both sides geographically and culturally. ( 5 min ) ^ Top