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:

	Benedict (Henri Savolainen)
	FINLAND | 2009 | 5 min.
	Benedict is working in an egg factory, his job is to convert brown eggs into white eggs. One day he encounters something different that changes everything.
No Words

	Runaway Beer (Henri Savolainen)
	FINLAND | 2008 | 12 min.
	Two people cross their paths, driven by the passion for company and the thirst for beer which takes them to an amazing chase where anything is possible.
No Words

	Marina, la esposa del pescador (Carlos Hernández)
	COLOMBIA | 2009 | 13 min.
	A surreal anecdote in Marina’s insignificant life, that shows us a reflection in a moment where we need to close and heal our wounds at any cost if we want to keep on living.
No Words

	Veriset Kädet (Malakias)
	FINLAND | 2009 | 7 min.
	Evil never dies in the church of real metal
No Words

	LoopLoop (Patrick Bergeron)
	CANADA | 2008 | 5 min.
	LoopLoop is made from a sequence captured in a train going to Hanoi in Vietnam. Using animation, sounds warping and time shifts this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind
No Words

	L'Homme est le seul oiseau qui porte sa cage (Claude Weiss)
	FRANCE | 2008 | 12 min.
	A cold universe. Individuals with a cage enclosing a ballon where their heads should be; they come and go in the streets of an immense metropolis. They resemble one another, have a standardised way of life. Some, in a fit of madness or lucidity try to make their balloon fly away, but any such attempt is systematically doomed to failure.... One of them, against the odds, finds a means to escape.
No Words

	DEN'GI (Anastasia Zhouravleva)
	RUSSIAN FEDERATION | 2009 | 14 min.
	Trying to change your life, you forget that there is no escaping fate.
No Words

	Rouge (Sonia Bertotti)
	ARGENTINA | 2008 | 7 min.
	Claudio is a teenager of 16 years who are caught in the harassment of his home, which leads to the only possible way to escape: prostitution.
No Words

	PÁSSAROS (Filipe Abranches)
	PORTUGAL | 2009 | 7 min.
	The misadventure of an old woman obsessed with birds and her son, who thinks that can fly.
No Words