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Saturday, Sept 5 at 6:00pm Total Runtime: 96 mins Location: L'artichaut Chasmogamy / UK (Directed by Marinella Setti) 8 mins - 2008 - A modern parable about conflict,set in the cultural melting-pot of London and featuring various characters going through the daily grind of a rush-hour bus ride. (Une parabole moderne a propos de conflits culturels situe dans le melting-pot londonien avec des personnages coinces dans un bus a l'heure de pointe... ) - French Premiere Yamanote Line / Japan, USA/USA (Directed by Ark Mu/Thomas Takemoto-Chock) 15 mins - 2008 - Two American men go to the city of Tokyo in searching for something that they have lost. (Deux americains vont a Tokyo en recherche de quelques chose qu'ils ont perdus.) The Vacation / Australia (Directed by Masoud Sheihki) 27 mins - 2009 - A young couple in the first day of their two weeks vacation is driving along the highway, in danger of running out of gas. The girl (22 years old) demonstrates a joking annoyance to her companion of his inability to keep the car's gas tank full. The argument between them continuous up to the point that their reach a petrol station. The girl leaves the car to take a short walk by the time he is filling gas tank. When he picks her up again in the highway they become spontaneously engaged in a role-playing game as if a stranger driver is giving a lift to a girl in the highway. Although, the game begins innocently, this behavior leads to identity crisis for the participants... - World Premiere Delaney / USA/Spain, USA (Directed by Carles Torrens) 21 mins - 2008 - 13 year old Delaney wants to run away with her boyfriend to Las Vegas, but her family wants to steal his heart and sell it on the black market for $300,000. (Delaney a treize ans et elle veut se sauver a La Vegas avec son ami mais ses besoins de famille pour voler son coeur et le vendent sur le marche noir pour $300.000.) - French Premiere EL CAMINO DEL DESEO (THE ROAD OF DESIRE) / Belgium (Directed by Eva Cools) 23 mins - 2007 - Ana is a young Spanish woman on the loose. In an attempt to escape from her past she hopes to find a new life with a rockband on the road. (Ana est une jeune espagnole libre. En esperant de changer sa vie elle essaye de rejoindre un group de rock en tournee.) - French Premiere Strasbourg International Film Festival on Facebook
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