UK 2007, 4 min – Prix UIP Angers
director, screenplay, animation: Johnny Kelly | production: Royal College of Art
An investigative and exploratory hands-on gloves-off study into the practice of putting things „off“. Sometimes the only way to get something done is to do two dozen other things first.

Bosnia and Herzegovina 2008, 6 min – Prix UIP Sarajevo
director, screenplay, production, animation, editing: Ivan Ramadan
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...

UK 2007, 15 min – Prix UIP Vila do Conde
director: Sam Taylor-Wood | screenplay: Patrick Marber | production: Picture Farm Limited / Caroline Harvey, Patrick Marber, Anthony Minghella, Sam Taylor-Wood, Adrian Sturges | photography: Seamus McGarvey | editing: Lisa Gunning | music: Peter Shelley
Summer 1978. London. Georgia sits in a Geography class covering her exercise book with graffiti. Her classmate Peter watches her with longing. Georgia turns and catches him – but ignores his gaze. After school Peter goes to the local record shop to buy the new Buzzcocks single, Love You More. It’s the day of its release and he’s desperate to own it. As he’s flicking through the rack of „New Releases“ Georgia comes in. She’s after the same record...

UK 2008, 10 min – Prix UIP Rotterdam
directors, screenplay: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy | production: Desperate Optimists
Joy is a story about a 17-year-old girl who has gone missing. The film is a police reconstruction of Joy’s last known movements in a local park. By the time the reconstruction is ended it is clear that the film is more than just a reconstruction of a teenager’s last movements but rather a meditation on the fragility of youth.

Latvia 2007, 12 min – Prix UIP Grimstad
director, screenplay: Laila Pakalnina | production: Hargla Company | photography: Gints Bērziņš | editing: Kaspar Kallas
1970s: Already before Marija is born it is clear that she will be a person getting into trouble all the time. When Marija turns five, Santa Claus brings her a doll she doesn’t like, and also a lady-bird crawls into her ear. However, that’s not all. The most important thing is that she is often alongside firemen. Is it because things around her catch fire?

Belgium 2008, 14 min – Prix UIP Venice
director, screenplay: Koen Dejaegher | production: Rits Brussel | photography: Jonathan Wannyn | editing: Stijn Deconinck
In a world where people’s happiness is based on their right to freely sell and buy relatives, Franz sells his brother and uses the money to buy himself a girlfriend.

Ireland 2007, 12 min – Prix UIP Berlin
director, screenplay: Darren Thorton | production: Calipo Picture Company | editing: Anna Maria O’Flanagan | music: Ray Harman
Frankie is 15 and preparing for fatherhood. He is determined to be the best dad ever, but as his day goes on, he starts to realise how impossible this will be for him.