1. Hands
Eiji Shimada
6:30
A shoot out in a garage. A high-speed pursuit. The plot sounds familiar, but this is not your typical action-adventure film.
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2. Too Young
Tomoko Goushi
1.40
Young sweethearts show their affection through the most peculiar gestures.
3. 12 x 12
Maja Zimmermann
(Drama) 14:30
The filmmaker examines human resilience in even the bleakest circumstances through the relationship between a prisoner and his fellow inmate-a cockroach.
4. LAST REQUEST
Tom Hodges
(Fiction) 16:30
A rookie hitman has more at risk than his budding reputation when his first victim tries to outsmart him. Who will survive this battle of wits?
5. Alien Song
Victor Navone
(Animation) 1:00
It's been said that disco is dead, but not for alien Blit Wizbok. Not yet, anyway. In this computer-animated comedy, Blit lip-synchs to Gloria Gaynor's disco anthem "I Will Survive."
6. In God We Trust
Jason Reitman
(Comedy) 16:33
When Robert dies and learns he hasn't scored enough good deeds to get into heaven, he escapes Purgatory and takes the game into overtime.
7. Rick & Steve : The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
Q. Allan Brocka
(Animation) 8:00
Rick & Steve are America's happiest gay couple, but lesbian sweethearts Kirsten and Dana threaten the boys' domestic bliss when they invite Rick, but not Steve, to father their baby.
8. Invisible
Mollie Jones
(Drama) 5:00
A talented young artist is consumed by her drug addiction.
9. Indescribable Nth
Oscar Moore
(Animation) 9:27
This magical story about the mystery of the human heart proves that an emotional story can be told with the simplest elements of animation.
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