White Noise

Bruit blanc

France 2008 / 11’

director:	Senda Bonnet
screenplay:	David Lucas
language:	French

A 40-something year old actress is in doubt about being able to take on the role of a young beauty-queen. Her personality splits into two, a young and old ego.

Guyane

France 2009 / 15’

director:	Imanou Petit
screenplay:	Imanou Petit
sales:	Les films du requin
language:	French

Village Hmong de Cacao, French Guiana. When his grandmother gets sick, ten-year-old Ying, is in charge of getting medicines from the city. Along the way, an extraordinary event will happen.

Only What Is Lost Is Forever Loved

Evigt elskes kun det tabte

Denmark 2008 / 10’

director:	Peter Hagelund
screenplay:	Peter Hagelund
sales:	Nordisk Film
language:	Danish

Julie has made a choice. She has left her boyfriend to the thought of another man and that life will always be better where you are not. After making her decision Julie is haunted by memories and fantasy and is thereby confronted with her choice. In the end she has the possibility of altering her decision.

Lubrique

France 2008 / 17’

director:	Sonia Buchman, Julie Merle
screenplay:	Sonia Buchman, Julie Merle
language:	French

Bénédicte (Béné) is a control freak and a huge fan of Tetris. She spends her time tidying up, arranging things and ideas so they fit neatly. With boys, she also has very strict rules. Her best friend Sybille has a more laidback outlook on life. She is more flexible, when it comes to relationships. One day, Béné gets angry at Sybille…

Cheeese…

Austria 2008 / 11'56’

director:	Hüseyin Tabak
screenplay:	Hüseyin Tabak
language:	Kurdish, English

A Kurdish family is waiting for help from American troops during the Iraq War in the basement of their collapsed house. Bombs are falling down around them. But somehow they stay in touch with their own, seemingly insignificant world, with all its small challenges.

Suspended Animation

UK 2009 / 10’

director:	Billy Lumby
screenplay:	Billy Lumby
sales:	Stink TV
language:	English

Walt Disney awakens in the future to discover he has been cryonically frozen for a few hundred years. On realising this, he suffers 'futureshock' - a psychological condition of shattering stress and disorientation. Too much change in too short a period of time.

Of Best Intentions

Ireland 2008 / 14’

director:	Brian Durnin
screenplay:	Brian Durnin
language:	English

We all want to leave behind a little something for future generations to remember us by, a legacy. In his lifetime, renowed inventor Thomas Midgley cannot have foreseen the future ramifications of his work. This film tells the story of five characters whose well-intentioned actions all incur disastrous consequences.

director:		Hüseyin Tabak

director:		Petit Imanou

director:		Sonia Buchman, Julie Merle

director:		Brian Durnin

director:		Peter Hagelund

director:		Billy Lumby

director:		Senda Bonnet

The 9th Era New Horizons International Film Festival named the "International Film Event of the Year"!