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1. 日舞
Sun Dance
Director: Wan-Ting Lin
Year: 2009
Running time: 08:30
Dialogue: None
Country: Taiwan
Format: Color / Mini DV, Super 16, Digital Betacam
Genre: Experimental, Fiction - Fantasy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC6
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 15:40

A withering sunflower. A girl’s conviction. A portrait of the last journey before the end of one’s life story. A flow of breath and consciousness. Before “The End” what else can we do to fill the blank pages of life?

2. 'nstaCharge
Director: Igor Choromanski
Year: 2009
Running time: 01:50
Dialogue: English
Country: United States of America
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Animation, Fiction - Comedy, Sci-Fi
Competition: Science Fiction
Session: FIC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 15:40

An outdated quirky little robot becomes entranced by his sexy friend's latest rechargeable batteries.

3. A Bedouin Nightmare
Director: Mourad El-Touni
Year: 2009
Running time: 06:30
Dialogue: English, Arabic
Country: Egypt
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Fiction - Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 12:20

The film takes place in a beduoin village in the Sinai dessert in Egypt. The inhabitants are distraught because they have run out of sugar. These people adore very sweet tea and without sugar they don't drink it at all. But it's not the end of the world because they are waiting for the delivery man who comes every month with supplies. But what are they to do when he arrives having forgotten the sugar?

4. A ce soir
Till Tonight
Director: Olivia Basset
Year: 2009
Running time: 08:00
Dialogue: French
Country: France
Format: Color / Super 16
Genre: Fiction - Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC6
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 15:40

A couple wakes up. They start their daily routine until something missing forces them to change their habits.

5. A piedi nudi sul palco
Barefoot on the stage
Director: Andrea Rovetta
Year: 2007
Running time: 05:26
Dialogue: Italian
Country: Italy
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 15:40

An actress makes an audition. Like all job interviews, quite often it's not a matter of ability or skills.

6. Aiuto
Help
Director: Frenki Skull
Year: 2009
Running time: 03:30
Dialogue: Italian
Country: Italy
Format: Color / DV Cam, HD
Genre: Fiction - Comedy, Thriller
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 19:40     CERN Globe: Friday 19 21:20

A family is nervously waiting for a phone call from which they will know a request, an amount of money and also father's fate...

7. Anniversary
Director: Nayra & Javier Sanz Fuentes
Year: 2009
Running time: 09:48
Dialogue: English
Country: Spain
Format: Color / 16 mm, Beta SP, Digital Betacam
Genre: Fiction, Experimental - Drama / Tragedy, Romance
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 12:20

David is the perfect husband. He is sensitive and attentive, and always knows what to do and what to say. In fact, he never ever forgets to celebrate his wedding anniversary. For his wife Mary he manages to commemorate their wedding with the absolutely perfect dinner every year. But, this time, David´s carefully prepared ritual is interrupted by an unexpected phone call that exposes the disturbing, and tragic, reality beneath his perfection.

8. Backwards
Director: Aaron Hughes
Year: 2009
Running time: 05:01
Dialogue: English
Country: United States of America
Format: Color /
Genre: Fiction, Animation - Drama / Tragedy, Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC5
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 14:00

A love story so backwards, it has to be told in reverse.

9. BANG!
Director: Jaime D. González
Year: 2009
Running time: 10:00
Dialogue: Spanish
Country: Colombia
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Action / Adventure, Drama / Tragedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC6
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 15:40

A female assassin makes a terrible mistake while on the job and take the decision to never kill again. Her boss doesn't takes the news very well and decides to go after her and in the process provokes the best assassin she has to protect herself.

10. Barbie Butcher
Director: Sophie Lagües
Year: 2008
Running time: 00:23
Dialogue: None
Country: Netherlands
Format: Color / Digital Betacam
Genre: Animation - Comedy, Horror
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 12:20

The monster wants a new look and knows where to get it.

11. Blood, Tears and Sweat
Director: James Logan, Khaldoon Ahmed
Year: 2008
Running time: 03:30
Dialogue: English
Country: England
Format: Color / W&B / HD, DV Cam
Genre: Experimental, Documentary -
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 18:00     CERN Globe: Friday 19 19:40

Mosquitoes have killed more people than all the wars in history. The war against mosquitoes is fought on many fronts. Experiments with people whose natural body odors repel mosquitoes have helped scientists at Rothamsted Research to make advances in the search for a cheap safe mosquito repellent. This film was created as part of the "Science on Film" initiative by The Wellcome Trust and the Documentary Filmmakers group.

12. Caffeine Effect
Director: Héctor Mora Martinez
Year: 2009
Running time: 07:00
Dialogue: English
Country: Sweden, England
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Experimental, Fiction - Drama / Tragedy, Romance
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC4
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 21:20     CERN Globe: Friday 19 18:00

The story of a man in search for love, but doomed by destiny to go to hell.

13. Cikorja an' kafe
Chicory 'n' Coffee
Director: Dušan Kastelic
Year: 2008
Running time: 08:17
Dialogue: Slovenian
Country: Slovenia
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Animation, Fiction - Music video, Coming of Age
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 19:40     CERN Globe: Friday 19 21:20

Story about a small deception – for all their lives the wife has been making Chicory for her ruffian husband instead of real Coffee. A story about how we're unable to tell people we're close to how much we love them - until it's too late...

14. Comité exécutif
Executive committee
Director: Gilbert Carsoux
Year: 2008
Running time: 08:00
Dialogue: French
Country: France
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 15:40

In the boardroom it's time for the quarterly accounts. It can be a nice or horrible time, it depends of your results, good or bad... it's a cruel and perverted game.

15. Doba nevinosti
The Age of Virginity
Director: Danilo Beckovic
Year: 2007
Running time: 07:17
Dialogue: Serbian
Country: Serbia
Format: Color / Mini DV, Beta SP
Genre: Fiction - Comedy, Fantasy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 12:20

Teenage boy Sveta comes to the Virginity Treatment Clinic, seeking professional help.

16. Dr. W : Clash of Titans
Director: MAGOPRODUCTION
Year: 2009
Running time: 04:03
Dialogue: English
Country: Spain
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Animation, Documentary - Reality recorded
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 12:20

Dr. W - His name is Woody Bonepecker and he is a professional mystery solver, deepness investigator and truth digger.

17. El mueble de las fotos
The cabinet for the photos
Director: Giovanni  Maccelli
Year: 2008
Running time: 02:10
Dialogue: Spanish
Country: Spain
Format: Color / DV Cam, Mini DV
Genre: Fiction - Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 19:40     CERN Globe: Friday 19 21:20

The piece of furniture in the living room is my family’s shop window.

18. Elysium
Director: Pola Schirin Beck
Year: 2009
Running time: 05:30
Dialogue: German
Country: Germany
Format: Color / 35 mm
Genre: Fiction - Human Rights, Sci-Fi
Competition: Science Fiction
Session: FIC5
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 14:00

E‧ly‧si‧um |iˈli zh ēəm;|: A place or state of perfect happiness. A short vision of our future: A human life - a deathproof business. There is no place you can’t reach with us, no experience we can’t make happen for you. Whatever brings you to us - with Elysium you have made an excellent choice.

19. Ensalada Mixta
Mixed Salad
Director: Elena Koudreiko, Harry  Clegg
Year: 2009
Running time: 02:06
Dialogue: None
Country: England
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Animation, Fiction - Drama / Tragedy, Action / Adventure
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC5
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 14:00

Life, death and the pursuit of gourmet delights.... Ensalada Mixta is a short parable about contentment. Sid the curious snail finds himself in the kitchen of a rather exclusive restaurant, a kitchen full of possibilities – exciting and dangerous.

20. Gilles Corporation
Director: Vianney Meurville
Year: 2009
Running time: 07:00
Dialogue: French
Country: France
Format: Color / Digital Betacam, HD, 35 mm
Genre: Fiction - Comedy, Environmental
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC6
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 15:40

To overcome the economic crisis, Gilles, a farmer from Troyes dans l'Aube, starts a mass production of "Parisians" destined for the Chinese market.

21. Hadigner
Seeds
Director: Sibil Çekmen
Year: 2009
Running time: 06:26
Dialogue: Armenian, Turkish
Country: Turkey
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Coming of Age, Drama / Tragedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 12:20

Every New Year's Eve the grandfather of an Armenian girl asks her to break a pomegranate in front of the door. Then they count the seeds together. But this year the ‘ceremony’ won’t be exactly like this.

22. HeartTrack
Director: Rafa Dengrá
Year: 2009
Running time: 03:30
Dialogue: Spanish
Country: Spain
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Comedy, Fantasy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC6
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 15:40

A boy receives a weird phone-call from a friend.

23. L'Attracteur Etrange
The Strange Attractor
Director: Justine Gasquet
Year: 2007
Running time: 22:30
Dialogue: French
Country: France
Format: Color / 35 mm
Genre: Fiction - Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Competition: Science Fiction
Session: DOC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 18:00     CERN Globe: Friday 19 19:40

Out of Competition: Samuel, a quantum physics researcher, creates an unknown material. The presence of his deceased wife suddenly comes back, as if linked to his discovery.

24. L'entretien
The Interview
Director: Jerome  De Gerlache
Year: 2009
Running time: 09:50
Dialogue: French
Country: France
Format: Color / HD, Digital Betacam
Genre: Fiction - Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 19:40     CERN Globe: Friday 19 21:20

Our hero, Robert Prune, arrives for an interview for his dream job. But then he realises that something vital is missing. Can he get it from home in time - the race is on!

25. L'énergie Eolienne
Wind Power
Director: Danielle Sironval, Catalyse Productions
Year: 2009
Running time: 08:30
Dialogue: French
Country: France
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Documentary - Reality recorded
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 14:00

The production of renewable energy from the wind has already been demonstrated. Research centres supported by the European Commission work together to test new materials with the aim to improve the performance and reliability of wind turbines.

26. La Carte
The Postcard
Director: Stefan Le Lay
Year: 2009
Running time: 07:40
Dialogue: None
Country: France
Format: Color / W&B / HD
Genre: Fiction - Comedy, Fantasy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC6
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 15:40

A young man who is living in a postcard in color tries to meet a young woman who is living in a postcard in black and white.

27. La Grande Finale
The Big Finale
Director: Tore Avlund Frandsen
Year: 2009
Running time: 08:04
Dialogue: None
Country: Denmark
Format: Color / Beta SP
Genre: Fiction - Drama / Tragedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 15:40

In the 1920's a young clown is the most talented of all entertainers. His performances is a great success and the audience laughs. Thirty years later people don't laugh, and the clown becomes desperate to hear the laughter once again...

28. Left-brained Larry & Right-brained Rachel
Director: Sally A Ward
Year: 2009
Running time: 08:47
Dialogue: English
Country: Denmark
Format: Color / 16 mm
Genre: Animation - Tale / legend
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 12:20

The siamese twins Larry and Rachel are stuck together by the head, which has caused a terrible childhood with bullying and parental neglect.

29. Les atomes ne meurent jamais
Atoms never die
Director: Didier Fontan
Year: 2009
Running time: 18:32
Dialogue: French
Country: France
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Sci-Fi, Drama / Tragedy
Competition: Science Fiction
Session: FIC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 12:20

In the not so distant future, Marianne Sorensson, President of the Reunited Nations Organisation, has a meeting with her own destiny and the fate of our planet...

30. Les bons tuyaux
The good pipes
Director: Olivier Riffard
Year: 2009
Running time: 04:00
Dialogue: None
Country: France
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Drama / Tragedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC6
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 15:40

Having retraced in his mind the myriad failures of his life, Louis Skelington decides to commit suicide.

31. Let There Be Sound
Director: Christian Lachenschmidt, Christian Scheck, Stefan J. Wühr
Year: 2009
Running time: 04:50
Dialogue: None
Country: Germany
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Animation, Fiction - Comedy, Tale / legend
Competition: Science Fiction
Session: FIC4
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 21:20     CERN Globe: Friday 19 18:00

A planet-like creature is drifting through space, devouring asteroids and rocks, and excreting new worlds. It is the home to creatures - the Schnozzles, who enjoy the peculiar noises from the hosts huge respiratory system. Then suddenly, something bad happens...

32. Life is music
Director: Corentin Kopp, Boris Wilmot
Year: 2007
Running time: 01:00
Dialogue: None
Country: Belgium
Format: Color / W&B / DV Cam
Genre: Animation, Fiction -
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 12:20

Alice is waiting for the metro while listening to her mp3 player. When the batteries run down, the subway station tries to recreate the song Alice was listening to, using everyday subway sounds.

33. Love Bombing
Director: Philip Lepherd
Year: 2008
Running time: 06:36
Dialogue: English
Country: England
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Drama / Tragedy, Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 12:20

Karl, Ken and Carol introduce Frank to the finer details of cult recruitment techniques over dinner, and reveal what the techniques mean to him. He's not best pleased.

34. Madre
Director: Juan Pablo Laplace
Year: 2008
Running time: 10:00
Dialogue: Spanish
Country: Argentina
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Comedy, Mockumentary
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC5
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 14:00

“Mother” tells the story of Mariana who, at 38 and tired of her fair share of romantic failures, decides to have a child on her own. In order to do it, she researches the possible alternatives, and decides that the best option is to find three candidates to have intercourse with without revealing her goal.

35. Max & Helena
Director: Prashant Nair
Year: 2009
Running time: 09:36
Dialogue: English
Country: United States of America
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Comedy, Romance
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC4
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 21:20     CERN Globe: Friday 19 18:00

Max & Helena tells the story of how Max fell in love with Helena, fell out of love with French food and discovered every corner of New York City in the process...

36. Mets-toi à l'aise !
Make yourself comfortable
Director: Tristan RONDEAU
Year: 2008
Running time: 09:49
Dialogue: French
Country: France, France, reunion (island)
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Fiction - Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC5
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 14:00

Another ordinary day thinks Ghislain on leaving home. At the office the welcome from Martine is hardly enthusiastic. Kate can't be bothered to bring him a coffee. Even Raoul turns down his invitation to lunch. And yet today is his 35th birthday!

37. Mon cousin le Singe
Ape-man: Experiment Kinship
Director: Axel Wagner
Year: 2008
Running time: 29:00
Dialogue: French
Country: Germany
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Documentary - Reality recorded
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 18:00     CERN Globe: Friday 19 19:40

Out of competition film from the Pariscience film festival : Where do we come from? What do apes and humans have in common, where are the differences? The chimpanzee Sina and the paleontologist Oliver are trying to answer these questions in an extraordinary experiment. By comparing Oliver’s and Sina’s anatomy and behaviour in the TV-studio, we see how closely the two species are related and where evolution caused differences. Via the 'time-tunnel' we travel back into the past to some of our forebears and attempt to answer questions about our roots. The film highlights major landmarks in human evolution and provides insights into the methods of paleontology. A passionate researcher, elaborate 3D-animations and a unique studio-experiment let science come to life.

38. More Than Horseplay
Director: Sarah  Barton
Year: 2008
Running time: 27:00
Dialogue: English
Country: Australia
Format: Color / DV Cam
Genre: Documentary - Human Rights
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 14:00

In a world first scientific study, straight from the horse's mouth, we explore the benefits of horse riding for children with cerebral palsy.

39. Mémoire d'une valise
Memory of a suitcase
Director: Marie-Winter Goury du Roslan
Year: 2008
Running time: 06:17
Dialogue: None
Country: Switzerland
Format: Color / W&B / DV Cam
Genre: Documentary, Fiction -
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 19:40     CERN Globe: Friday 19 21:20

This film is the story of a Polish jew who finds his father's suitcase in a museum about the holocaust. Through the object, he rediscovers happy memories of his childhood.

40. Naming Pluto
Director: Ginita Jimenez
Year: 2008
Running time: 12:39
Dialogue: English, Spanish
Country: England
Format: Color / DV Cam
Genre: Documentary - Historical, Portrait
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 12:20

Naming Pluto explores the story of Venetia Burney, the English 11 year old who named the planet Pluto in 1930. In 2007 on her 89th birthday Venetia sees Pluto for the very first time through a telescope, 77 years after its discovery.

41. Nanocheese
Director: Irene Suarez-Martinez
Year: 2009
Running time: 02:59
Dialogue: English
Country: France
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Documentary - Comedy, Reality recorded
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 14:00

Nanocheese explains one of the many fascinating properties of nanomaterials: the large surface area through a simple example with a piece of cheese.

42. Neville in a Blue Dress
Director: Michael Steel
Year: 2007
Running time: 09:02
Dialogue: English
Country: England
Format: Color / DV Cam
Genre: Fiction - Romance, Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 12:20

After a stag night out with the boys, Neville gets stranded at a train station on his way home. Jenny comes to his rescue and their relationship blossoms as she nurses his wounded leg and battered ego.

43. Nonimi Gamana
Endless Journey
Director: Henry Warnakulasuriya
Year: 2008
Running time: 10:00
Dialogue: None
Country: Sri lanka
Format: Color / W&B / DV Cam
Genre: Experimental, Fiction - Drama / Tragedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC5
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 14:00

A poverty stricken mother living in a slum area leaves her sleeping child on the mat and goes to work as a domestic helper in an upper middle class house.

44. NOWHERENOW
Director: Volker Schmitt
Year: 2009
Running time: 12:00
Dialogue: English
Country: Germany
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Comedy, Sci-Fi
Competition: Science Fiction
Session: FIC6
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 15:40

A reporter and a self-appointed professor meet on a deserted beach. But what starts as a simple interview in the middle of nowhere becomes a struggle for belief and even life itself - in a ludicrous way.

45. O Sonho de Jonas
Jonas´ dream
Director: Gustavo Chiappetta, Jorge Henrique Maia
Year: 2008
Running time: 05:48
Dialogue: Portuguese
Country: Brazil
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Fiction - Action / Adventure, Coming of Age
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 19:40     CERN Globe: Friday 19 21:20

Jonas was kicked out from his egg. He grew up and he had to leave his quiet and warm place. But everything is going to change! Our hero is going to fight, no matter what!

46. Out of the Blue
Director: Michael  Lavelle
Year: 2008
Running time: 09:20
Dialogue: None
Country: Ireland
Format: Color / 16 mm
Genre: Fiction - Fantasy, Romance
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 15:40

Georgie's love life transforms when he discovers a TV floating in the sea.

47. Pirogues
Canoes
Director: Alice Bohl
Year: 2008
Running time: 06:51
Dialogue: French
Country: Ireland, France
Format: Black & White / Digital Betacam, Beta SP
Genre: Fiction, Animation - Human Rights
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 19:40     CERN Globe: Friday 19 21:20

The film uses the technique of animated charcoal to take us into the lives of two couples whose relationships are affected by borders.

48. Plastic and Glass
Director: Tessa Joosse
Year: 2009
Running time: 09:00
Dialogue: English
Country: France
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction, Experimental - Environmental, Musical
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 15:40

In a recycling factory the machines dance, the workers join in song, and the truck drivers almost make a ballet. The factory noises become a rhythm and a truck driver starts to sing a song for his love.

49. Playing Murder
Director: Nick Scown
Year: 2009
Running time: 10:00
Dialogue: English
Country: United States of America
Format: Black & White / HD
Genre: Fiction - Drama / Tragedy, Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 19:40     CERN Globe: Friday 19 21:20

A fun murder mystery party takes a turn for the worse when the the host playing the detective decides to get to the bottom of some personal mysteries.

50. Poil dans le thé
Hair in the tea
Director: Kanamé Onoyama
Year: 2009
Running time: 09:18
Dialogue: French
Country: France
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 15:40

Kentaro, a young Japanese student who came to Paris to study has been invited to tea by his fashion student neighbour Claire. He tries to get familiar with her flat and her two Chihuahuas...

51. Rest Strom
Cutoff Current
Director: Sebastian Nozon, Andreas Dahn
Year: 2008
Running time: 09:00
Dialogue: None
Country: Germany
Format: Color / Digital Betacam
Genre: Fiction - Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC4
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 21:20     CERN Globe: Friday 19 18:00

A city without electricity. When two men find a glowing light bulb, the fight for hope begins.

52. Ruben Nunez Holokinetism
Director: K-soul Cherix
Year: 2009
Running time: 27:10
Dialogue: French
Country: Switzerland
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Animation, Documentary - Portrait, Video Art
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 12:20

HOLOKINETISM: synthesis of art, science & High-Tech. Ruben Nunez is the founder of Kinetism and the Holokinetism. In 1974, he created the first Holokinetic artwork of light, a poetic hologram that has, unlike stained glass, a source of inner light.

53. Secretos del almuerzo
Lunch time Secrets
Director: Rodrigo Moreno
Year: 2008
Running time: 08:10
Dialogue: Spanish
Country: Peru
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Fiction - Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC6
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 15:40

A secret that apparently seems to be a gossip could make us realize that things are not as clear as we imagine in our lives. The big secret is that coincidences only happen in fiction. Or maybe not?

54. Simple Nature
Director: David Alvarado
Year: 2009
Running time: 07:47
Dialogue: English
Country: United States of America
Format: Color / 16 mm
Genre: Documentary - Portrait
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 18:00     CERN Globe: Friday 19 19:40

World-famous physicist Dr. Leonard Susskind, one of the originators of String Theory, muses on philosophy. Poetic essay meets traditional science documentary in an interesting reveal of visual metaphors through the eyes of this brilliant man.

55. Spegelbarn
Looking Glass
Director: Erik Rosenlund
Year: 2007
Running time: 05:00
Dialogue: None
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Format: Color / Mini DV, 35 mm, Digital Betacam, DV Cam, Beta SP
Genre: Fiction, Animation - Horror
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC6
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 15:40

A dark stormy night. A little girl is home alone, but is she really?

56. Sunset from a Rooftop
Director: Marinus Groothof
Year: 2008
Running time: 10:00
Dialogue: Serbo-croatian
Country: Netherlands, Serbia
Format: Color / 35 mm
Genre: Fiction - Drama / Tragedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 15:40

While Belgrade is being hit by NATO-bombings, Ivana is preparing herself in the early evening for a night out and to tell her boyfriend the news of her pregnancy.

57. Suspicion
Director: EZEQUIEL  DE LA ROSSA
Year: 2008
Running time: 09:42
Dialogue: French
Country: Switzerland
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Drama / Tragedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC5
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 14:00

The police are hunting a serial killer. His features are reported on the television. A mechanic sees the suspect's car enter his garage and the situation goes out of control…

58. The Antikythera Mechanism
Director: Martin Freeth
Year: 2008
Running time: 14:17
Dialogue: English
Country: England
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Documentary - Reality recorded
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 12:20

New interpretations of the Antikythera Mechanism reveal that it was used to predict eclipses, and that it had a dial recording the dates of ancient Olympiads. The 2,000-year-old mechanism demonstrates the extraordinary engineering prowess of the Hellenic world.

59. The Best Haircut in the World
Director: Elena Shpak
Year: 2009
Running time: 07:20
Dialogue: English
Country: United States of America
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC4
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 21:20     CERN Globe: Friday 19 18:00

Desperate to look fabulous for an important event, Carol convinces Maddy to give her a last-minute haircut. However, Maddy has a secret, that if revealed, might have been enough to persuade Carol to look elsewhere for the perfect haircut.

60. The Day the Robots Woke up
Director: Ed Hartwell
Year: 2009
Running time: 07:10
Dialogue: English
Country: England
Format: Color / Mini DV, HD
Genre: Animation, Fiction - Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Competition: Science Fiction
Session: FIC4
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 21:20     CERN Globe: Friday 19 18:00

In a retro-futuristic London, a crashed comet causes all technology to stop working and the people flee the city. London is left empty and overgrown for many years until today when the old tin robots wake up!

61. The Evidence: The man who stopped smoking
Director: Martin Freeth
Year: 2009
Running time: 09:54
Dialogue: English
Country: England
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Documentary - Reality recorded
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 12:20

Richard Doll was a luminary of clinical research whose case control study, published in the BMJ in 1950, first identified smoking as an important cause of cancer and other diseases. The paper's findings were received with apathy, anger and disbelief.

62. The Floorless
Director: Benjamin Lee Gordon
Year: 2009
Running time: 03:30
Dialogue: None
Country: Spain, England
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Fantasy, Drama / Tragedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 15:40

A family that lives in an elevator makes the most out of their tight situation.

63. The Forest
Director: David Scharf
Year: 2009
Running time: 06:07
Dialogue: English
Country: Germany
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Animation, Fiction - Tale / legend, Drama / Tragedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC4
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 21:20     CERN Globe: Friday 19 18:00

Antonia is a 12 year old girl. She often has daydreams in which she wonders off into a magical far away forest where she hides from the problems of the real world. One day, however, her father takes drastic measures and she has to face a decision. Is your inner peace a utopian state until you have finally escaped the grip of the society and its rules? Or is affirmation a faster way to your personal luck? And what are you supposed to do, if you have to answer this question at the age of 12? In this animated short the protagonist has to cope with this question and her hostile environment and finds a simple but radical solution.

64. The Funk
Director: Cris Jones
Year: 2008
Running time: 06:15
Dialogue: English
Country: Australia
Format: Color / W&B /
Genre: Fiction, Animation - Comedy, Drama / Tragedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 19:40     CERN Globe: Friday 19 21:20

Jack woke up in a funk one day. No one really knows how it started...

65. The Good Heart Attack
Director: Sean Davidson, Uli Hesse
Year: 2008
Running time: 06:25
Dialogue: English
Country: England
Format: Color / W&B / Mini DV
Genre: Documentary - Reality recorded, Historical
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 12:20

The resurrection of dead dogs in Russia in the 1930s. An unstoppable heart in the US half a century later. And now in London a hand-made heart attack. How a strange, paradoxical discovery is helping to save lives...

66. The Line
Director: Xavier Agudo
Year: 2009
Running time: 10:00
Dialogue: Spanish, German
Country: Germany
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Drama / Tragedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC4
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 21:20     CERN Globe: Friday 19 18:00

A man searching for the identity of his real parents meets a mysterious woman and learns the tragic story of The Line, where the Berlin Wall used to stand.

67. The Quantum Lattice
Director: Martin Freeth
Year: 2008
Running time: 11:53
Dialogue: English
Country: England
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Documentary - Reality recorded
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC3
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 18:00     CERN Globe: Friday 19 19:40

Nobel Prize winner Bill Phillips is eager to hear about new theories from young scientists like Hannah Venzl. An exciting dialogue develops between them on a boat trip near Lindau as they dream up collaborative experiments in the quantum world.

68. The Search
Director: Mark Buchanan
Year: 2009
Running time: 13:05
Dialogue: English
Country: England
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Drama / Tragedy
Competition: Science Fiction
Session: FIC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 19:40     CERN Globe: Friday 19 21:20

The story of a lonely man whose search for the existence of life outside our universe takes a remarkable turn when he connects with a recently bereaved family.

69. The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!
Director: Jacob Armstrong
Year: 2009
Running time: 05:45
Dialogue: None
Country: United States of America
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Animation - Sci-Fi, Comedy, Horror
Competition: Science Fiction
Session: FIC5
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 14:00

A space bounty hunter travels to a lonely planet to kill a terrible monster.

70. There's Bliss in the Kiss
Director: Melanie Beisswenger
Year: 2009
Running time: 01:17
Dialogue: None
Country: Singapore
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Animation - Romance
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC6
Screenings: CERN Globe: Thursday 18 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 15:40

A princess on the lookout for Mr. Right is willing to give even the most unlikely candidate a try.

71. Three Times Me
Director: Wendy J.N. Lee
Year: 2009
Running time: 03:20
Dialogue: None
Country: United States of America
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC1
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 19:40     CERN Globe: Friday 19 21:20

A little girl hiding under the dinner table imagines growing up in three pairs of shoes that have caught her attention.

72. Two or Three Things It Would Be Not Bad to Know about It…
Director: Nikolay Makarov
Year: 2008
Running time: 28:43
Dialogue: Russian
Country: Russia
Format: Color / Beta SP
Genre: Documentary, Experimental - Video Art
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 14:00

Free and easy reflections by six philosophers from St. Petersburg and Moscow. The film narrates the dramatic relationship between a person and technology.

73. Un dimanche après midi
One sunday afternoon
Director: Rémy CAETANO
Year: 2008
Running time: 08:30
Dialogue: French
Country: France
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC5
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 14:00

A family is preparing Sunday lunch, then the door bell rings…

74. Virtual Reality Training
Director: Martin Freeth
Year: 2009
Running time: 08:20
Dialogue: English
Country: England
Format: Color / Mini DV
Genre: Documentary - Reality recorded
Competition: Science Documentary
Session: DOC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 19:40     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 14:00

Skills in laparoscopic surgery can be improved by using proficiency based virtual reality training using a simulator. The performance level of novices was increased to that of intermediately experienced laparoscopists and operation time was halved in this randomised controlled trial from Denmark.

75. VLOG
Director: Valerio Boserman
Year: 2008
Running time: 10:00
Dialogue: Spanish
Country: Spain
Format: Color / 35 mm, HD
Genre: Fiction - Drama / Tragedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC4
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 21:20     CERN Globe: Friday 19 18:00

A videolog to speak, to relax, to feel alive, but what would happen if there was someone on the other side who really needs help, who wasn't a psychopath but only someone who lives in hell?

76. What's Next
Director: Claudia Röthlin, Adrian Flückiger
Year: 2007
Running time: 03:52
Dialogue: None
Country: Switzerland
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Animation, Fiction - Fantasy, Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC4
Screenings: CERN Globe: Tuesday 16 21:20     CERN Globe: Friday 19 18:00

Modern technology doesn't always make our lives easier. Especially as a kidnapper you should be prepared to deal with its challenges.

77. World Builder
Director: Bruce Branit
Year: 2009
Running time: 09:15
Dialogue: None
Country: United States of America
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Sci-Fi
Competition: Science Fiction
Session: FIC2
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 18:00     Forum Meyrin: Friday 19 15:40

A man makes a new world in an hour.

78. You Can Have It All
Director: Guy Ducker
Year: 2009
Running time: 08:03
Dialogue: English
Country: England
Format: Color / HD
Genre: Fiction - Mockumentary, Comedy
Competition: General Fiction
Session: FIC5
Screenings: CERN Globe: Wednesday 17 21:20     Forum Meyrin: Saturday 20 14:00

Carl Jacobs is a life guru who's making an inspiring DVD of his course. A look behind the scenes as that DVD is made, however, reveals that his own life may not be a shining example...

Total Running Time:
11:12:35
Countries
France1519.2%
England1519.2%
United States of America911.5%
Germany79.0%
Spain67.7%
Switzerland45.1%
Denmark33.8%
Australia22.6%
Italy22.6%
Sweden22.6%
Ireland22.6%
Egypt11.3%
Turkey11.3%
Taiwan11.3%
Netherlands, Serbia11.3%
Serbia11.3%
Belgium11.3%
Colombia11.3%
Brazil11.3%
Netherlands11.3%
Singapore11.3%
Peru11.3%
Argentina11.3%
Russia11.3%
Slovenia11.3%
Finland11.3%
Sri lanka11.3%
France, reunion (island)11.3%
Dialogue Languages
English2937.2%
None1924.4%
French1417.9%
Spanish810.3%
German22.6%
Italian22.6%
Russian11.3%
Serbo-croatian11.3%
Turkish11.3%
Portuguese11.3%
Armenian11.3%
Slovenian11.3%
Serbian11.3%
Arabic11.3%
Year of Production
20094456.4%
20082734.6%
200779.0%