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The following films are not taking part in the competition but will be shown in festival programme
Kingsland #1: The Dreamer
Director: Tony Grisoni
UK / 2008 / 20mins / English and Turkish with English subtitles
Nominated for BAFTA. Best Short Film winner of Cinema Without Borders Award. The moon looks down. A stranger arrives in the city looking for work, love and respect. We travel with him, briefly dipping into other lives, treading a tragically inevitable road that leads us back to the beginning.
The Landlord
Director: Awat Namiq Agha
UK / 2009 / 9mins / English/ PG
Helen moves into a new flat to escape her dominating boyfriend. She cannot understand why objects and ornaments keep being moved. When her ex boyfriend appears outside the flat, she wonders if he could have somehow got hold of the keys.
Phone Story
Director: Binevşa Berivan
Belgium 2009 / 16mins / Kurdish (Kurmanji) and French with English subtitles
Memo, a Kurdish immigrant in Brussels, is managing a phone shop in the city. His curiosity and loneliness are pushing him to listen to his customers’ conversations, in particular those of the beautiful Leyla …
The Seed
Director: Mujde Arslan
North Kurdistan (Turkey) 2009 / 14mins / Kurdish (Kurmanji) with English subtitles
The Seed examines the struggle to survive in a shantytown of Istanbul. Haci Ferman, an elderly Kurdish man, loses his wife and, in turn, the meaning of his life. While alive, his wife had focused on cultivating a little garden in their otherwise dejected surroundings.
Olly, Olly Oxen Free
Director: Beri Shalmashi
Holland / 2008 / 24mins / Dutch and Arabic with English subtitles
This documentary follows children who have led from wars around the world and end up in an asylum centre in Amersfoort, Holland. Torn from their home countries and not yet settled in their new homes, they live in a no-man’s land.
The Other Ones
Director: Hisham Zaman
Norway / 2009 / English and Norwegian with English subtitles
A man is driving to a party on a cold winter evening. All of a sudden his car hits someone and he flees the scene in panic. Back in his garage he attempts to conceal all traces of the accident. But when something unexpected turns up in the car, it becomes harder to run.


