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A fine selection of shorts from around the world, each one portraying with ingenious ways the whimsical moments in life when things appear never to be the same again?

RITA (2009, 19 mins)
Directors: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza (Italy)
Rita is ten years old and blind since birth. Thanks to her mysterious new friend, or perhaps only thanks to her imagination and courage, she will escape from home and experience a brief moment of freedom. (EIFF’s favourite)

VIKI FICKI (2010, 18 mins)
Director: Natalie Spinell (Germany)
Viki has to face the challenge of presenting her mom's job to her classmates - whether she is pleased with this, or not. An emotional rollercoaster movie about the relationship of two best friends, mother and daughter.

AWAY (2010, 4 mins)
Director: Omar Zúñiga (USA/CHILE)
Fragmented memories are recaptured on videotape when Diego comes to New York intent upon coming to terms with the love he lost in a tragic incident years before.

PASSENGERS (PASSAGERS) (2009, 12 mins)
Director: Samuel Feller (France, Belgium)
Motorcycling on a deserted road, Erica and Julien, a young couple. On their way, a gas station and three lonely individuals. This encounter leads them to seek a new harmony...

DEEPER THAN YESTERDAY (2009, 20 mins)
Director: Ariel Kleiman (Australia)
After three months submerged underwater, the men have become savages. Oleg fears that losing perspective may mean losing himself.
 
A SILENT CHILD (2010, 12 mins)
Director: Jesper Klevenås (Sweden 2010)
In a cinema verité style, this striking short is about a child that neither cries nor screams when it hurts itself – and the terrible consequences involved.