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  • The Royal Nightmare
    The Royal Nightmare
    1. A film by Alex Budovsky
    2. Florida Film Festival
    3. March 27 - April 05, 2009
    4. run time 3 minutes 40 seconds

    This animated film tells a story of an Evil King whose life is turned into absurd nightmare by a pilgrim who constantly reappears by the Royal Tower  (more)

  • Smart Machine
    Smart Machine
    1. A film by Jane Sablow
    2. run time 4 minutes 5 seconds

    In the short, CG animation, Smart Machine, a single-minded little boy, while on a family vacation, has a most unusual encounter with a vending machine. This is the second in an ongoing series of pieces about food that combine storytelling with advocacy to present healthy food choices to children ages 2-9. In the process of trying to get himself a snack, the child discovers the machine not only...  (more)

  • If I Fall
    If I Fall (SI JE TOMBE)
    1. A film by bojina panayotova
    2. run time 25 minutes

    Alice is spending her summer with François in a Mediterranean beach resort. The effervescent seaside activities around only accentuate the emptiness she feels inside. One night, in response to this boredom, their friend Colin suggests they should do something different : steal a boat and go for a ride…  (more)

  • The Threat
    The Threat (LA MINACCIA)
    1. A film by Luca Bellino
    2. One World - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
    3. March 11 - 19, 2009
    4. run time 86 minutes 1 seconds

    “Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution are the greatest threat since the time of the Soviet Union and communism”. Doctrine for Asymmetric War Against Venezuela, U.S. Army, 2006 This is the starting point for a journey across the country which gave rise to the “red wave” in Latin America. Does Venezuela represent the dream of a new socialist society or is it just another distortion...  (more)

  • Garden of the Nameless
    Garden of the Nameless (El Jardín de los Expósitos)
    1. A film by David Covo
    2. International Film Festival of Uruguay
    3. April 04 - 18, 2009
    4. run time 10 minutes

    Garden of the Nameless is a tropical gothical thriller that uses the keys of the suspense and horror films, to tell the story in two times of a nun and a arqueologist both of them obssesed in discovering the misteries that inhabit a convents garden.  (more)

  • max3 click!
    max3 click!
    1. A film by arlen christian
    2. Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards
    3. March 13 - 23, 2009
    4. run time 1 minutes

    an experimental music composition combined visual of mouse clicks, mouse scrolls, and keyboard keys. enjoy it!  (more)

  • Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
    Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
    1. A film by Linda Thornburg
    2. run time 126 minutes

    A vivid adaptation of May Sarton’s 1965 landmark novel tells the story of writer Hilary Stevens, who shocked the world in the 1920s with her novel about a love affair between two women. In the 1960s, the aging writer is interviewed by two young reporters who want to know, “Who’s the muse?” Through lushly filmed flashbacks, Hilary recalls the women who have inspired her...  (more)

  • Apollo 54
    Apollo 54
    1. A film by Giordano Giulivi
    2. run time 97 minutes 44 seconds

    Strange symbols have been interrupting television broadcasts for days and nobody knows who sends them. The media is also wondering about the nature of the phenomenon that threatens to become more and more out of control. In the meanwhile the young scientist Bobby Joe finds in the woods a mysterious cable reaches toward the stars and decides to find where it goes to. These are the events that...  (more)

  • The Province of Lost Film
    The Province of Lost Film
    1. A film by Thomas Lahusen
    2. run time 47 minutes

    “Cinema Paradiso Soviet style,” The Province of Lost Film is about the magic and nostalgia of watching film collectively: in a movie house; a workers’ club; or at night, on an improvised screen hung in the village square. Employees of the former distribution and exhibition network, projectionists, and viewers from central Russia reflect upon the unique and already bygone experience of the...  (more)

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Latest Festival Winners

  1. 11/10/08Morelia International Film Festival 2008 Awards
  2. 11/10/082008 ShockerFest Award Winners
  3. 11/10/082008 Award Winners for Sitges! Jennifer Lynch, Amat Escalante, Tomas Alfredson and Na Hong-jin take Top Prizes
  4. 11/10/08Filmmakers honored with Awards at the 2008 Pusan International Film Festival
  5. 11/10/08"Cowboy" wins Iris Prize 2008
  6. 10/29/082008 Cinekid Announces Awards for Best Film, New Media Production, TV program and the Audience Award
  7. 10/29/082008 Cinekid Announces Awards for Best Film, New Media Production, TV program and the Audience Award
  8. 10/29/08And the Winners for the 2008 BUSTER- Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Youth are...
  9. 10/27/082008 Awards Given at the 2008 Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  10. 10/27/08clip19! Jury Award Winners- 2008 Clip! Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
  11. 10/27/0812th LISBON GAY AND LESBIAN FILM FEST AWARDS
  12. 10/27/08Celebrating its 10th Anniversary, Woodstock Film Festival Honors Filmmakers for their Contributions to the "Fiercely Indpendent" Spirit of Filmmaking
  13. 10/27/08New Orleans Film Festival 2008 Award Winners
  14. 10/25/08“Appaloosa” Named Best Film and Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor Award Presented to Greg Kinnear, “Flash of Genius” at the 24th Boston Film Festival
  15. 10/25/08The 12th Annual Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (LALIFF) honors filmmakers at the Award Ceremony and Closing Night Gala
  16. 10/25/082008 Awards Given to Honor Cinematic Achievement at the Riga International Film Forum Arsenals
  17. 10/25/082008 Milano Film Festival Awards
  18. 10/25/08The Fukuoka International Film Festival Honored Shoaib Mansoor with the 2008 Audience Award
  19. 10/25/08The 2008 Atlantic Film Festival Honors Filmmakers with Awards
  20. 10/25/08Emily Atef was the Big Winner at the 2008 Oldenburg International Film Festival with her film “The Stranger in Me”
  21. 10/25/08Helsinki International Film Festival Awards the Finnkino Prize for the first time. And the winner is...
  22. 10/25/08The Award Winning Films of LUCAS 2008
  23. 10/24/08The Award Winners of the 2008 Festival of Deauville for American Cinema
  24. 10/24/082008 EXis Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul Winners
  25. 10/21/08The 2008 Hawaii International Film Festival closes another successful year with Film Awards!
  26. 10/21/08James Newton Howard Film Composer of the Year 2008
  27. 10/21/08In its 12th Year, Arab Film Festival Hosts the 2nd Noor Awards Ceremony
  28. 10/20/082008 Golden Sheaf Award winners of the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival
  29. 10/20/082008 Tabor FIlm Festival Awards
  30. 10/20/08SCINEMA Festival of Science Film 2008 Winners Announced

Recent FAB Films

  1. 01/02/09Solo
  2. 12/21/08The Threat
  3. 11/25/08Garden of the Nameless
  4. 11/25/08The Province of Lost Film
  5. 11/24/08Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing
  6. 11/24/08I Received Flowers Today!
  7. 11/22/08Apollo 54
  8. 11/17/08Intercom
  9. 11/14/08max3 click!
  10. 11/11/08The Royal Nightmare
  11. 11/06/08Smart Machine
  12. 11/06/08Cravings
  13. 11/02/08The Children's Tree
  14. 11/02/08If I Fall
  15. 10/26/08Being Frank
  16. 10/22/08Gameboy
  17. 10/19/08Blue Gold: World Water Wars
  18. 10/14/08Flowers of Rwanda
  19. 10/11/08The Last American Freak Show
  20. 10/10/08Pensil
  21. 10/10/08You, Me and Him
  22. 10/08/08Order
  23. 09/26/08Passing
  24. 09/25/08A Still Life
  25. 09/24/08Cycle of Change - Beijing, my old home
  26. 09/18/08The Embrace
  27. 09/11/08A Desire Obtained
  28. 09/09/08No Through Road
  29. 09/09/08The Painte of Skies
  30. 09/08/08A4
  31. 08/29/08Date
  32. 08/22/08Khoda
  33. 08/19/08Everybody Present!
  34. 08/17/08Paul's Grandpa
  35. 08/17/08Konvex-T
  36. 08/12/08Unbroken
  37. 08/12/08Lovers
  38. 08/10/08To The Sea
  39. 08/06/08You Me and Captain Longbridge
  40. 08/06/08Lost Postcards
  41. 07/25/08Aquarium
  42. 07/23/08The Love Song of...
  43. 07/18/08Hakim
  44. 07/16/08The Cascade and its Dust
  45. 06/28/08Another Planet
  46. 06/19/08Tolerance
  47. 06/17/08Motion Studies
  48. 06/15/08Solitaire
  49. 06/15/08Over My Dad's Body
  50. 06/13/08Park Shanghai
  51. 06/11/08Small Avalanches
  52. 06/04/08Creating Karma
  53. 05/30/08Fatherhood Dreams
  54. 05/23/08Dance Of The Dragon
  55. 05/15/08L.I.R.R.
  56. 05/15/08Clean
  57. 05/15/08Maine Story
  58. 05/07/08Pages of a Girl
  59. 04/22/08The Adventure
  60. 04/17/08Protest!
  61. 04/09/08For You, My People
  62. 04/07/08The Skyjacker
  63. 04/06/08For All the Marbles
  64. 04/04/08A Chapter of Love
  65. 04/02/08Tokyo Rock 'n' Roll
  66. 03/31/08Next to Babilonia
  67. 03/31/08the cream
  68. 03/30/08Considering Democracy: 8 Things to Ask Your Representative
  69. 03/29/08Vanaja
  70. 03/26/08My Happy End
  71. 03/26/08Procrastination
  72. 03/25/08Flower in the Pocket
  73. 03/20/08Behave
  74. 03/18/08The Stain On The Sidewalk
  75. 03/10/08In Twilight's Shadow
  76. 03/08/08The Lives of Angels
  77. 03/03/08Tony Zear
  78. 03/02/08Passage
  79. 02/25/08a disappearance foretold
  80. 02/21/08Of Shadows and Men
  81. 02/15/08Road To Victory
  82. 02/14/08Power House
  83. 02/11/08Anne and the Reverend
  84. 02/11/08Bloody Mary
  85. 02/10/08Late Fragment: An Interactive Film
  86. 02/09/08My own 1000 square meters
  87. 02/09/08how i am
  88. 02/04/08The Cave: An adaptation of Plato's Allegory in Clay
  89. 02/01/08Ebb
  90. 01/31/08The Red Box
  91. 01/29/08In the Name of the Son
  92. 01/26/08The Job
  93. 01/26/08A Long Day
  94. 01/25/08Bacchus
  95. 01/23/08Mirror Mirror
  96. 01/23/08Father Figure
  97. 01/21/08Five Minutes
  98. 01/19/08Bahar
  99. 01/18/08Puppets
  100. 01/11/08Gillery's Little Secret

Top Ranked Festivals

Features Screened
RankFestival Name#
1Goteborg Film Festival450
2Buenos Aires Int'l Independent Film Festival338
3Rotterdam International Film Festival337
4Rio De Janeiro Int'l Film Festival300
5Seoul Int'l Cartoon Animation Festival290
6Montreal World Film Festival282
7Hong Kong Int'l Film Festival280
8Sao Paulo Int'l Film Festival268
9Toronto International Film Festival261
10Melbourne Int'l Film Festival252
11Sitges Int'l Film Festival Catalonia250
12Seattle International Film Festival248
13Sydney Film Festival245
14ERA NEW HORIZONS Int'l Film Festival243
15Moscow Int'l Film Festival240
15Shanghai International Film Festival240
17Berlin Int'l Film Festival237
18Vancouver Int'l Film Festival232
19Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival218
20Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival209
21Int'l Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam200
21Mar del Plata Film Festival200
21Pune International Film Festival200
21Tokyo International Film Festival200
25International İstanbul Biennial194
26Festival du nouveau cinéma190
27Thessaloniki Int'l Film Festival182
28Fantasporto Oporto Int'l Film Festival180
29Calgary Int'l Film Festival170
30Locarno Int'l Film Festival169

Shorts Screened
RankFestival Name#
1Holland Animation Film Festival700
2Anima Mundi Int'l Animation Festival611
3Tampere Film Festival600
4Jerusalem Int'l Film Festival550
5Gijon Int'l Film Festival 508
6Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film480
7Rio De Janeiro Int'l Short Film Festival462
8Int'l Short Film Festival of Berlin451
9Rotterdam International Film Festival445
10Sao Paulo Int'l Short Film Festival437
11Hiroshima Int'l Animation Festival408
12Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival400
13International Short Film Festival Oberhausen375
14Sitges Int'l Film Festival Catalonia350
15Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival344
16Fantoche Int'l Animation Festival317
16Palm Springs Int'l Short Films317
18Uppsala Int'l Short Film Festival315
19Hamburg International Short Film Festival314
20Message to Man Int'l Documentary305
21Belo Horizonte Int'l Short Film300
22Onedotzero Digital Creativity Festival295
23Anifest Int'l Animated Films284
24ERA NEW HORIZONS Int'l Film Festival279
25Int'l Short Film Festival Leuvan271
26Worldwide Short Film Festival268
27Annecy Animation Festival259
28LAlternativa Independent Film Festival250
29Australian Int'l Animation Festival248
30Exground Filmfest245