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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.

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