Love and Anger
A portmanteau film from the 1960s, Love and Anger features shorts from some of the most accomplished filmmakers of all time: Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Goddard, Marco Bellocchio, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Carlo Lizzani. Each contributes to a portrait of a volatile decade. Pure art house fare, the films feature performances by Living Theatre founders Julian Beck and Judith Malina, as well as Andy Warhol Factory member Tom Baker. Brutal indifference to violence is tempered by images of joy against a backdrop of war, while Goddard's characters self-consciously debate love and war.

Starring: Tom Baker, Julian Beck, Nino Castelnuovo, Ninetto Davoli, Catherine Jourdan
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Carlo Lizzani, and Jean-Luc Goddard. Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Eros
Eros, is a three-part exploration of the carnal links between men and women. Its subject is eroticism and desire. The Hand looks at a young tailor's long-time unrequited love for a beautiful Hong Kong courtesan. Over many years, he lovingly crafts the clothes that she wears for other men. Over time, the seemingly unattainable fantasy woman loses everything, just as the tailor prospers in his career. Then the unexpected happens. Equilibrium is about a stressed-out 1950s New York advertising man who has been suffering from a series of recurring erotic dreams. During his session with psychiatrist Dr. Pearl, he describes his dream of a woman who is familiar to him--but he can't recall who she is when he wakes up. Through the course of a very offbeat session of therapy, we discover why that is. The Dangerous Thread of Things follows a fortyish married couple that no longer have anything to say to one another. At an impasse, the man has a passionate one night stand with a free-spirited young girl, but this experience also fails to satisfy him. Later on, the wife and the girl meet.

(Three short films about sexuality and love. )
Running Time: 1 hr. 48 min.
Directors: Wong Kar-Wai , Steven Soderbergh and Michaelangelo Antonioni.

Un chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou (1929) was an artful collaboration between two surrealistic masters in Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. These two artists were part of a surrealism movement in Spain that influenced the country's art. Un Chien Andalou relies on abstract imagery in an attempt to unnerve the viewer. It is a plotless short film that is basically a series of images.
The movie contains images that ranges from the erotic, frightening, funny, strange, and symbolic. It caused an enormous scandal in the late 1920s with depiction of disturbing and outright strange imagery.

LE CONTE DU MONDE FLOTANT (The tale of the floating world)
Synopsis
Hiroshima. On the morning of August 6, 1945, a dazzling light invades the coasts of Floating World. ... A man remembers ... . The shock, a violent blast. Bodies stretch in pain, dreams and visions traverse the past, the present and the future.. ... The child he was before ... Before the light does burn. ... Before the World does trouble ...
Concept & Direction: Alain EscalleMusic & sound esign: Cécile Le PradoImages & Visual effects: Alain EscalleDuration: 24 m
Festivals:
International Festival of Short Films & New Images, Rome – 2002, International Festival of Valencia – 2002, International Festival in French-speaking Acadian [FICFA] – 2002, International Festival of Porto – 2002, Sundance Film Festival – 2002, Festival of New Cinema, Montreal – 2001, International Festival of Short Films, Uppsala – 2006, International Festival of Short Films from Chermont-Ferrand – 2002, International Festival of Animated Film, Hiroshima – 2002, International Film Festival, Leeds – 2002, International Film Festival, Rotterdam – 2002, International Festival of Short Films, Berlin – 2005, Francophone Film Festival, Vienna – 2003.

Coffee and Cigarettes
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch (writer)
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Plot Outline:
A comic series of short vignettes built on one another to create a cumulative effect, as the characters discuss things as diverse as caffeine popsicles, Paris in the '20s, and the use of nicotine as an insecticide--all the while sitting around sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes.

Shot over the course of a 17-year-period, COFFEE AND CIGARETTES proves once again that Jarmusch is a true original. This time around, the director tries his hand at the short film genre, delivering 11 shorts that are all based around the seemingly insignificant acts of drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. In the first short, "Strange to Meet You," Steven Wright and Roberto Benigni discuss the perks of cigarettes and coffee. In "Somewhere in California," Iggy Pop nervously tries to befriend Tom Waits, who decides that he can have a cigarette because he just quit. Cate Blanchett delivers a towering dual-role performance in "Cousins," playing both her Hollywood superstar self as well as her bitter cousin. In a similarly titled yet totally different short, Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan are brilliant in "Cousins?" And then there is "Delirium," one of the best short films ever made, in which Rappers Rza and Gza (Wu-Tang Clan) discover that Bill Murray is a coffee addict, and they use their expertise to preach to him the benefits of alternative medicine. Jarmusch builds to a poetic conclusion and the film is shot in an artistic black-and-white, making COFFEE AND CIGARETTES both an impressive work and a lighthearted, yet genuine, tribute to the art of smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee.

short films/from the competition section

ABHINETHRI
DOC/MAL/40 MINUTES
MUSIC : MUKUNDAN UNNI
EDITING : MAHESH NARAYANAN
CAMERA : SUDHEER.O.V
DIRECTION : SASIDHARAN.A.V.
( SELECTED AS THE BEST DOC. IN THE COMPETITION)

6383 KOLLAM EXPRESS
MUSIC : NARAYANAN PURAYANNUR
EDITING : PRAVEEN PRABHAKAR
DIRECTION : SURAJ VARMA
( SELECTED AS THE BEST FICTION IN THE COMPETITION)


NOVU THEENDIYA PATHAKAL
DOC/MAL
CAMERA : RANJITH KUMAR,SHIVARAJ, LENIN
EDITING : B.AJITH KUMAR
DIRECTION : SACHIDANANDAN PUZHANKARA

THEEREZHUTHIYA THEERANGAL
DOC/MAL/22 MIN
DIR: LENZI.A.J.


ORIDATHORU RAJAVUNDU
DOC/MAL/28MIN
DIR: RANJINI.K.V.


SALLIKKATTU
TAMIL/10MIN.50 SEC
EDITING : M.SUGUMAR
CINEMATOGRAPHY: D.RAJARAJAN, S.RAVIKUMAR, D.GNANA LIVINGSTON
DIR: GOVINDARAJ


HAI DUPPATTA
NON FICTION/HINDI WITH EST/29 MIN
CAMERA WORK :WILFRED LOUIS
EDITOR : KSHITIJ RAJKUMAR
SOUND : HITESH CHAURASIA
SCRIPT,DIR : TESS JOSEPH


VILKANUNDU, VIYARPOZHUKKUNNA BALYANGALE
CAMERA: R.DINESAN,JAYESH
EDITING : PRASANTH, LIPIN
DIRECTION: K.RAJENDRAN


BHARGAVI, A PORTRAIT OF FISHLORE
DOC/28 MIN
EDIT/CAMERA : M.VARUN NAYAR
SCRIPT/DIRECTION : REMA.M.


SLAVE
(6 MIN)
DIRECTED BY:
VINAYAK ASHOK& ARVIND .G.MENON


WASTED PAPER ( IDU VARU KAGIDHUM)
TAMIL/13 MIN.19 SEC.
EDITOR : ANAND RAJ
MUSIC : RUBEN
CINEMATOGRAPHY:M.THIRUNAVUKKARASU
DIRECTED BY: T.THAYAPARAN


CAGE
(TAMIL/ 14 MIN)
EDITOR : B.GANDHIMATHI
MUSIC : RUBEN
CINEMATOGRAPHY: B.SANGEETH KUMAR
DIRECTED BY: K.S.SURYAKANT


THADI
(THE BEARD)
EDIT : MIDHUN, PRAMOD
MUSIC : PRAMODH CHERUVATH
CINEMATOGRAPHY: SATHEESH M.KURUP
WRITEEN AND DIRECTED BY: M.R.ANOOP RAJ