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PROJECT HUXLEY
UK, 2005, 11.5 MIN
DIRECTED BY SIMON BROWN
EAST COAST PREMIERE
Huxley is a monkey, imprisoned in a lab, and forced by a sadistic lab assistant to take part in a "Monkey typing Shakespeare" experiment. Secretly, Huxley yearns to play Hamlet.


PATTERNS
CANADA, 2005, 8.5 MIN
DIRECTED BY JAMIE TRAVIS
EAST COAST PREMIERE
Pauline waits for an important phone call, misses the call, gets the call, and then regrets the phone call in this stylized allegory of innocence and experience from the director of Why The Anderson Children Didn't Come To Dinner (FFF 2004).


MY DAD IS 100 YEARS OLD
CANADA, 2005, 16 MIN
DIRECTED BY GUY MADDIN
EAST COAST PREMIERE
Isabella Rossellini portrays Hitchcock, Selznick, Fellini, Chaplin, and her mother, Ingrid Bergman in this magical and cinematic love letter to her father, director Roberto Rossellini, on the occasion of his 100th birthday.


GEORGE
IRELAND, 2005, 13 MIN
DIRECTED BY RORY BRESNIHAN
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
The tale of a painfully unlucky man for whom experiencing Murphy's Law would mean having a damn fine day.


JELLYBABY
IRELAND, 2005, 10.5 MIN
DIRECTED BY ROB BURKE
SOUTHEAST PREMIERE
When Jack and Jill's baby began crying incessantly, they hoped it was just a phase. Nine months later, they were still hoping. Then Jack got an idea.


HIRO
CANADA, 2005, 20 MIN
DIRECTED BY MATTHEW SWANSON
EAST COAST PREMIERE
A Japanese entomologist takes on the Yakuza in an effort to save a strange young woman he just met and a rare beetle he just bought.


AZADI
AUSTRALIA, 2005, 20 MIN
DIRECTED BY ANTHONY MARAS
IN ENGLISH, AFGHAN, AND PERSIAN W/ ENGLISH SUBTITLES
An Afghan father and his young son flee the violent street of Kabul only to encounter another type of persecution upon arrival in Australia.