MY YACHT - Directors Huck Melnick & Jeremy Herman - 29 mins

Selected for screening at London's Raindance Film Festival, Edinburgh's Sweet HD Festival and Cannes Film Festival's Marche du Film, this excellent romantic comedy was filmed on location at last year's Cannes festival. It tells the story of Ben, a wannabe filmmaker marooned outside the festival's charmed circle of power and influence, who pretends to be a yacht-owning producer to impress a hopeful actress, Laura, the woman of his dreams.

After being mistaken for a real producer at the super-fancy Hotel du Cap, he find himslef invitated onto a real yacht owned by a real big-time producer, Harvey Rhinestone. Despite being eventually found out, Ben's scam impresses Rhinestone so much that he sets him up with the glitzy lifestyle to go with the dealmaking. But, his success seems empty without Laura.

For more info about My Yacht, including a downloadable trailer, visit www.MyYacht.tv

CONTRANATURA - Director Evan Manifatori - 13 mins

In the near future plants are extinct and humans have lost their instinctual nature. Living in a society with no sexual desires, Ren meets the seductive Liselle, a girl who awakens these long-fotgotten instincts in him during a night of passion. Waking up alone in her bed the next morning, he is unable to remember the experience, but while shaving, certain smells bring bck the memories: the bar where they met, the drinks and, finally the girl herself. Driven by this reawakened primal force, he tracks her down.

LANDSLIDE - Director Han Hoogerbrugge - 4 mins

Dutch artist Han Hoogerbrugge's first music video is a natural progression from his award-winning interactive webanimations featured in the Design Museum. Inspired by the music of Belgium's Dead Man Ray, this animated film features the director himself in a series of dream-like events, some of which would make Sigmund Freud blush.

For more examples of Hoogerbrugge's work, visit www.hoogerbrugge.com

1+1=3 - Director Alinah Azadeh - 8 mins

This celebration of the richness of cross-over cultural identity was awarded second prize at the 2004 ICA Halloween Shorts Festival. Based on interviews with eight British-Iranian women from different cultural backgrounds, it offers an unusual perspective on the current political and economic reconfiguration of the Middle East. Responding to a series of questions about identity and memory, their answers are combined with footage shot in Iran to produce a highly topical film evoking the richness and paradox of the 'third' country - this country - they inhabit.

MURDERER EITHER WAY - Director Alex Festinese - 14 mins

Abbisola Alistair Johnston, a young mixed race man, comes from a strong and sound family background: his mother is West African, his father Scottish. His life has seemed easy so far, but when he commences a university course in London, hoping to become a historian, he finds himself at a life-changing crossroad. Forced to confront his deepest insecurities in a world full of racial hatred and violence, he must choose between the new reality of his personal story or his comfortable past.

BRANDED - Director Caroline Bridges - 10 mins

Imaginative dance film combining animation and film to explore a woman's addiction to TV adverts. One particular shaving commercial draws her into a 'branded' world that seems infinitely more appealing than her own reality.

A clever look at adverts...the dancers perform some stunning falls, tumbles and risky contact work - Eleanor McDonald, Dance Theatre Journal

GROCKELDANCE - Director Marissa Zanotti - 5 mins

This unusual dance drama was filmed in a Victorian Glasshouse and tells the story of how a young Glaswegian couple on a first date negotiate ‘territory’ at their café table. The social and sexual tensions they experience are generated via quickfire editing and highly distinctive cinematograpy, building up to the unexpected release of the Grockledance.

Produced with funding from The Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award

FRAGILE- Directors Billy Jackson & Gary Davis - 9 mins

After a break-up with girlfriend, Lucy, Tom enlists the help of his brother, Ray, to post himself to his lover’s house as a gesture of reconciliation - and a proposal of marriage. Unfortunately, the crate in which he is sealed falls from the delivery van and, critically injured, he desperately attempts to convey his whereabouts to Lucy and Ray with his mobile phone.