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Feature Films
Horizon Beautiful
- Country: Switzerland, Ethiopia
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 90m
- Synopsis: How far would you go to chase your dreams?
In the Name of Sherlock Holmes
- Country: Hungary
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 99m
- Synopsis: The movie follows two boys, Holmes and Watson in their investigation into the disappearance of the city's children that eventually leads to a dark journey into the supernatural.
Mother, I Love you
- Country: Latvia
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 83m
- Synopsis: Raimonds, a 12 year old boy, falls into a world of petty crime while trying to stay out of trouble with his mother.
Krishna Aur Kans
- Country: India
- Type: Animation
- Duration: 117m
- Synopsis: Hailed as India's first stereoscopic animated film, 'Krishna Aur Kans' is an exciting narrative full of action and drama. The movie chronicles Krishna's early years -- from his birth as the nemesis of his tyrannical uncle Kans.
International Shorts
23 Degrees 5 Minutes
Country: Ireland- Type: Animation
- Duration: 10m 30s
- Synopsis: An old explorer close to freezing in the Arctic recalls his student days when he studied under the enigmatic Professor Orit.
3x3
Country: Portugal- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 5m 50s
- Synopsis: A basket, a ball… a problem.
A Shadow of Blue

- Country: France, Spain
- Type: Animation
- Duration: 12m 07s
- Synopsis: Can a fragile world of lights and shadows show us more than a silhouette drawn against the sunlight?
Bean Caught

Country: United States- Type: Animation
- Duration: 03m 10s
- Synopsis: Real friendship has no price.
Benny and Jack's Flying Machine

- Country: United Kingdom
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 09m 15s
- Synopsis: A young boy deals with the loss of his brother by bringing their shared dream to life.
Colored Pencils
Country: Brazil- Type:Live Action
- Duration: 16m 07s
- Synopsis: With a new set of colour pencils, a poor boy is excited to finally pursue his artistic hobbies. But how can he truly excel when his mother only lets him use one colour a day?
Cookies For Sale
Country: United States- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 03m 40s
- Synopsis: An entrepreneurial girl is adament about selling her last box of cookies to one stubborn neighbor. Who's going to win this battle?
Dummies
- Country: Spain
- Type: Animation
- Duration: 06m 50s
- Synopsis: A dummy watches the days go by from his little shop, bored. But with the opening of a new store next to his, his life will change forever.
El Vendedor De Humo
Country: Spain- Type: Animation
- Duration: 06m 26s
- Synopsis: A mysterious merchant makes a whole town greedy to buy their wishes from him.
Espana is Different
Country: Spain- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 04m
- Synopsis: A little decision could make you a hero or a villain. Based on an article written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
Fear of Flying
- Country: United States
- Type: Animation
- Duration: 09m 10s
- Synopsis: A bird with a fear of flying tries to avoid heading South for the winter.
Forever Mime
- Country: Netherlands
- Type: Animation
- Duration: 09m 10s
- Synopsis: Actions speak louder than words, especially where the heart is concerned.
I Spy with My Little Eyes
Country: Germany- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 09m 39s
- Synopsis: The imaginative Mia convinces the timid Ingo to play 'I spy with my little eye' in the kitchen.
In a Heartbeat
Country: Iceland- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 07m 26s
- Synopsis: A quiet young girl finds courage to stand up against bullies.
Joanna Makes a Friend
- Country: Canada
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 15m 14s
- Synopsis: When Joanna finds herself friendless, she builds a friend!
Jonah and the Crab
- Country: United States
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 08m 45s
- Synopsis: A young boy finds a hermit crab on the beach and a close friendship ensues.
Jump
- Country: Australia
- Type: Live Action
- Duration:14m57s
- Synopsis: Edwin, a circus clown like his father, defies tradition by embarking on a daring quest to become a trapeze artist.
Lola

Country: France
Type: Live Action
Duration: 06m 10s
Synopsis: Two dolls in a toy store are falling in love. When a customer decides to buy one of them the other embarks on an emotional journey around the world.
Type: Live Action
Duration: 06m 10s
Synopsis: Two dolls in a toy store are falling in love. When a customer decides to buy one of them the other embarks on an emotional journey around the world.
Lokomoschine
- Country: Germany
- Type: Animation
- Duration: 07m 24s
- Synopsis: Two scientists think they have invented a machine capable of bringing books to life.
Memorial
- Country: Italy
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 10m
- Synopsis: A child meets a strange old man near a war memorial. Is he a ghost from the war?
Momentos
- Country: Portugal
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 07m
- Synopsis: For a moment, stop everything you are doing and feel how good life is.
Mr. Forgetful
- Country: United Kingdom
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 05m 17s
- Synopsis: A day in the life of the very forgetful, Mr. Forgetful. An adaptation from the Mr. Men series of books by Roger Hargreaves.
Much Better Now
- Country: Portugal
- Type: Animation
- Duration: 05m 56s
- Synopsis: One day, a forgotten old book gets knocked over by the wind, allowing a lonely bookmark to finally explore the world around and have the ride of its life.
My First Spellbook
- Country: United Kingdom
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 10m 30s
- Synopsis: Some little girls want to be princesses. Others want to be doctors, teachers or vets. But there was one little girl who wanted to be... a witch.
My Happy End

- Country: Germany
- Type: Animation
- Duration: 05m
- Synopsis: All dogs chase their own tails. One dog succeeds in catching his tail. This changes his whole life.
My Strange GrandFather
- Country: Russia
- Type: Animation
- Duration: 09m
- Synopsis: A creative person often seems weird,funny and a little bit crazy. But sometimes, he can create a real miracle-merely from garbage
Navajo Song
- Country: Russia
- Type: Animation
- Duration: 06m 30s
- Synopsis: Based on an ancient song of Navaho Indians, this short expresses the eternal link between all living creatures on the Earth.
New Boy
- Country: Ireland
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 11m 32s
- Synopsis: Captures the experience of being the new kid in school through the eyes of Joseph, a nine year-old African boy.
Now You Know It Anyway
- Country: Netherlands
- Type: Animation
- Duration: 02m 34s
- Synopsis: Robin tries to sell her own made-up stories at a flea market, bringing the characters to life as she narrates her tales.
Papa's Tango
- Country: Netherlands
- Type: Animation
- Duration: 15m 12s
- Synopsis: By listening to her father's tango music, Hannah re-lives the special times she had dancing with him.
Paradigm
- Country: United States
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 05m
- Synopsis: Two children use their combined memories to rationalize the actions of their parents.
Paulie
- Country: United States
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 10m 51s
- Synopsis: A child prodigy goes on a quest to take down the school bully.
Playday
- Country: Portugal
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 05m 42s
- Synopsis: On a sunny afternoon four friends play soccer. Between dreams and games, the ball rolls away to a house inhabited by a lonely old man. The recovery of the ball becomes an adventure.
Scrapman
- Country: Germany
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 09m 52s
- Synopsis: There is a Scrapman for every child on earth who is playing.
Shame and Glasses
- Country: Italy
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 07m
- Synopsis: Mirko has to face his worst fear: wearing glasses. That is the only way to do his school test, but what if the girl he likes sees him wearing them?
Starting Line
- Country: Philippines
- Type: Live Action
- Duration:10m 15s
- Synopsis: A promising runner named Bettina Dacanay who wants to join the school race in order to buy her mom medicine.
Text Me
- Country: United States
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 09m 15s
- Synopsis: A classic scenario re-told for the Texting Generation
The Bench
- Country: United States
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 06m 22s
- Synopsis: Class divide vs. the struggle to impress a girl.
The Boy with Chocolate Fingers
- Country: United Kingdom
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 09m 12s
- Synopsis: Donald, the boy with chocolate fingers, has no friends because he is different. One day though, Donald gets a chance to make his difference become his greatest asset.
The King of the Island
- Country: Italy
- Type: Animation
- Duration: 16m 15s
- Synopsis: A boy's seafaring father returns, but he isn't the heroic figure the boy had always imagined.
The Little Team
- Country: Spain
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 11m
- Synopsis: Fourteen little kids go over an unsolved football mystery, and they end up teaching an unexpected life lesson to grown-ups.
The Magic Ferret
- Country: Canada
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 11m 39s
- Synopsis: An orphan named Sam yearns to find a forever home, so he and his pet ferret Booger conjure up a little magic.
The Wall
- Country: Sweden
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 11m 28s
- Synopsis: The Wall is a short film about young love and exclusion.
Urs
- Country: Iceland
- Type: Animation
- Duration: 10m
- Synopsis: For many years Urs had to look after his aging mother. But now he sets out for a dangerous journey.
Vicky and Sam
- Country: Portugal
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 13m 38s
- Synopsis: While working at the local video store, Vicky meets Sam, who quickly becomes a regular costumer. Both fall in love, ignoring the true reason for their rendez-vous.
Voiceover
- Country: Spain
- Type: Live Action
- Duration: 09m 41s
- Synopsis: A narrative journey into three extreme situations which are actually the same. Will you survive?