The aim of the festival is to promote short films that communicate with the audience without using words, through means of pure expression.

The filmed representation, shown only through moving images and natural sounds, without any verbal expression, creates a direct international communication system, without the need for translation or subtitling, thus restoring the pure and absolute meaning of the image to cinematographic art.

To be confronted with the rest of the world, on the same level, does not happen so often. How many times do we wonder, while reading the last best-seller, if the author describes the situations in the same way in his own language. How many times, watching a film, we realize that we did not enjoy the photography or the actors’ play because our eyes were stuck to the subtitles. The absence of dialogues makes the film polyglot, enhancing his potential and his details.

This are the screenings for this program:

	Silent Partner (Erwin Heylen)
	BELGIUM | 2008 | 8 min.
	Simon is dumped by his girlfriend Aida. When it all becomes too much for him, a mysterious salesman appears at his door. The stranger attacks Simon, and when Simon recovers he finds his heart beating on the table in front of him.
No Words

	INSIDE (Alexandre O. Philippe)
	UNITED STATES | 2009 | 9 min.
	Experienced through the distorted lens of its ten year-old protagonist, INSIDE explores the subtle emotional damage caused by a reckless extramarital affair on a child left in its wake.
No Words

	Himmel ueber Bremen (Hanns Selig)
	GERMANY | 2008 | 9 min.
	The film shows sky landscapes in time lapse to the impressing music of the german composer Dagmar Krug. The suspense is driven by the contrast of different sky moods and represents the contrast between heaven and hell.
No Words

	3X3 (Nuno Rocha)
	PORTUGAL | 2009 | 6 min.
	A night watchman spends the time in a basketball court throwing a ball into the basket. He has become an expert. His ego rises when he shows his abilities to a simple cleaning employee, who also like him, is there all night.
No Words

	Haut der Dinge (Thomas Bartels)
	GERMANY | 2009 | 6 min.
	On the animation stand found footage from the silent film aera meets photographs of the filmmaker's studio and living space. This poetic collage shows not only the skin of things but also the beauty of classic chemical filmworks.
No Words

	Die Fliege (Krzysztof Jarzebinski)
	GERMANY | 2009 | 13 min.
	Berlin. A young Asian couple moves to a skyscraper – a concrete block from the time of GDR. They neighbors are two older maried people, who their existence reduced on having meal together and sleep side by side, without talking to each other. In this surrounding a big spider and a fly hunt to survive. The first do it with his quiet and clever tactic, the other with an intolerably grumble. The disturbance of the nighttime in such circumstances cannot end peacefully.
No Words

	The Magnificent 4 (Stephane BROC)
	BELGIUM | 2008 | 6 min.
	4 chairs. 4 characters come in a place and sit down. Let begin the ritual…
No Words

	Tolerantia (Ivan Ramadan)
	BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | 2008 | 6 min.
	After a long sleep, the hero of this story – a Bosnian – awakes and starts building a wonder. His reasoning is not something you should be jealous of, but he is not very different from you, either. You share some things with him, deep inside…
No Words

	ABBI CURA DI TE (LORENZO CORVINO)
	ITALY | 2008 | 17 min.
	Inside a city\'s public park, a young woman is jogging, a girl affected by autism is playing with her Barbie doll, two young men are playing with their PSP. The lives of these four characters are intertwined by a common destiny of outrageous savagery
No Words

	Good Wasp (P Hamilton)
	UNITED KINGDOM | 2009 | 5 min.
	A wasp lays an egg in a box of eyes. The owner of the box kills the wasp. The egg hatches and wreaks revenge on the owner. All (except the owner) live happily ever after.
No Words

	My Lonely Friend (Artur Kazun)
	GERMANY | 2008 | 2 min.
	A gallery. People - like frozen sculptures. The portraits on the wall, however, are in motion. They are a series of pictures dealing with the same theme: a wooden doll coming to life.
No Words