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:

	Aus dem Nichts (maria vedder)
	GERMANY | 2009 | 4 min.
	Film about human error, existential cycles, and butterfly effects. The nucleus of the video is a test arrangement for a visualisation of the chaos research. Simultaneously it is an irony on our dream of mobility.
No Words

	Oubliette (Jurjen Blick)
	NETHERLANDS | 2008 | 11 min.
	An old house, filled with memories. A small girl, frail but inquisitive. Four silent strangers, ready to take her away...
No Words

	Tango Lola (Izabela Rieben and Sami Ben Youssef)
	SWITZERLAND | 2008 | 6 min.
	Having won the loto, Lola started to imagine her new life...Travels around the world, a tramp-like-husband turning into a caring and romantic gentleman, or maybe keeping everything for herself..However the husband doesn't have the same idea...
No Words

	Masques (Jérôme Boulbès)
	FRANCE | 2009 | 7 min.
	Two masks are assembly, a signal is given, and begin a danse, un ritual combat
No Words

	Formic (Roman Kälin / Florian Wittmann)
	GERMANY | 2009 | 3 min.
	A skateboardmovie about Dennis Gläser and an ant... – or how a skateboarder influences the micro-universe -- the ant takes revenge.
No Words

	ASÄMARA (JON GARAÑO // RAÚL LÓPEZ)
	SPAIN | 2008 | 9 min.
	Asämara: “sent to work, sent to earn a living”. This is the reality millions of children must face in Africa nowadays, in spite of their extreme youth. Either in the city or in rural areas, their fight is the same: surviving.
No Words

	Sparni un airi (Vladimir Leschiov)
	LATVIA | 2009 | 6 min.
	A former pilot looks back over his life - The Earth, the Sky, the Woman - everything that took place on the journey from an air strip to an abandoned boat house.
No Words

	ŠKODA (Rob Lücker)
	NETHERLANDS | 2008 | 14 min.
	FESTER (50) is living alone and an exasperated and frustrated man. His neighbour is his mirror image in almost every respect, yet more vulnerable and sympathetic. Both lose their jobs: Fester through negligence, his neighbour because of physical ailments. Despite Fester’s resistance, the shy man next-door tries to offer friendship and comfort.
No Words

	Le Quelounne (PATRICK BOIVIN)
	CANADA | 2008 | 11 min.
	Life after death has its own set of constraints, not always very funny! Patrice, one of the best clowns, sees his death quiet suddenly interrupted. Now that he has officially became a dead-alive in good and due form, he must try to adapt to his new "life."
No Words

	VIGILANCIA (GONZALO ZONA)
	SPAIN | 2008 | 13 min.
	Different characters are successively keeping watch on one another and in many different ways. None of them can avoid being turned into an object at the same time.
No Words