American Soldiers   Dir: Sidney J. Furie, Canada, 103 min, 2005, Feature Iraq, 2004: during a routine sortie a US patrol is ambushed and the young soldiers are forced to put their training and skills into act... more

BOTH   Dir: Lisset Barcellos, United States, 86 min, 2004, Feature Rebeca Duarte (Jackie Parker) is a beautiful, bisexual stuntwoman in San Francisco. Accustomed to risking her life daily, in love and w... more

Bye Bye Havana   Dir: J. Michael Seyfert, Cuba, 58 min, 2004, Documentary For all Havana's crumbling structures and piles of rubble, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, its plethora of armed... more

Façade   Dir: Brian Bedard, United States, 95 min, 2005, Feature This is a real-time story, based on true events, about the suicide of Harold on his 19th birthday. What could have been a nice birthday... more

Falling   Dir: Clayton Allis, United States, 83 min, 2005, Feature Falling off a bridge, Carl Lazarus is miraculously saved by a stranger -Paul Schoen. Paul pulls Carl to safety but slips and disappears... more winner: Best of New York

FATBOY THE MOVIE   Dir: Michael Landsberg, United States, 67 min, 2004, Documentary Are Americans getting fatter while the weight loss industry swells at the same rate? In "Fatboy The Movie" filmmaker Michael Landsberg... more winner: Best Documentary

FAVELLA RISING   Dir: Jeff Zimbalist & Matt Mochary, United States, 80 min, 2005, Documentary FAVELA RISING documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murder... more

FIGHT AGAINST TIME   Dir: Sean Stone, United States, 85 min, 2004, Documentary Sean Stone's exploration of his father's powerful, yet deeply elusive force in his life is both the intimate tale of a teenager seeking... more

Fighting for Life in the Death-Belt   Dir: Adam Elend & Jeff Marks, United States, 52 min, 2005, Documentary Legendary Atlanta attorney Stephen Bright, an anti-death penalty lawyer who has spent 20 years eloquently defending death row inmates i... more

Futurist, The   Dir: Brad Winderbaum, United States, 16 min, 2005, Short CHARLES GUTHRIE is suicidal, but whenever he tries to take his own life, fate thwarts his every attempt. When his fiancé, ANNA KAY find... more winner: Best Student Filmmaker

I will Avenge You, Iago!   Dir: Zhenya Kiperman, United States, 90 min, 2005, Feature "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time... more

Keep Your Distance   Dir: Stu Pollard, United States, 99 min, 2005, Feature GIL BELLOWS stars as David Dailey  a man who has it all. But beneath the surface, David's idyllic world is crumbling. His sultry wife... more

Land Has Eyes, The   Dir: Vilsoni Hereniko, United States, 87 min, 2005, Feature A coming of age story about a young woman, Viki, attempting to escape the stifling conformity of island culture. Inspired by the myth o... more

Life Coach, The   Dir: Josh Stolberg, United States, 90 min, 2005, Feature "The Life Coach" is a comedy about a world-famous life coach who inspires and influences L.A.'s best and brightest. Instead of bein... more winner: Best Comedy

Life's Decision   Dir: Mark Anthony, United States, 102 min, 2005, Feature There comes a time in every person life when decisions have to be made. However, those very same decisions could destroy everything you... more

Looking for Cuba   Dir: Jim Ryerson, United States, 50 min, 2005, Documentary In his new, groundbreaking documentary, Looking for Cuba, Jim Ryerson takes us where few U.S. citizens can venture, illustrating the im... more

Lost Dogs   Dir: Jim Doyle, England, 90 min, 2005, Feature The film is a stylish british comedy drama. A trio of New Age Travellers / Hippies' dog-nap the beloved bulldogs of a Bristol based ant... more

Lovelorn   Dir: Yavuz Turgul, Turkey, 142 min, 2005, Feature Nazim returns to Istanbul after he retires teaching. He goes back to his neighbourhood in Samatya. He can't find a better job than driv... more winner: Best Feature

Matta: The Eye of Surrealist   Dir: Jane Crawford, United States, 63 min, 2005, Documentary Matta became a protege of Andre Breton in the 30's, joining his surrealist group and befriending the likes of Salvador Dali & Marcel Du... more

Mayor of Tent City, The   Dir: Rosalie Bellefontaine, United States, 53 min, 2005, Documentary Karl Schmidt isn't just any homeless man. With vision, leadership and courage, he led a housing revolution in downtown Toronto that wou... more

New York Sky   Dir: Vlash Droboniku, United States, 8 min, 2005, Animation An animated film about the events of September 11th, where the principal character is the wife of a New York Firefighter.... more winner: Best Animation

Paheli   Dir: Amol Palekar, India, 140 min, 2005, Feature Once upon a time, there was a lovely girl, Lachchi (Rani Mukherji), who was married to a man who was only interested in making money. T... more

Perhaps Love   Dir: Ho-sun Chan, China, 107 min, 2005, Feature A movie-within-a-movie, featuring a love triangle plot that parallel between several actors’ lives. Jealousy, hatred and passion ignite... more winner: Best Foreign Language

Purgatory House   Dir: Cindy Baer, United States, 95 min, 2005, Feature Purgatory House begins where most stories end, as it chronicles the afterlife journey of a lonely teenage girl who has abandoned her l... more

ROCK and a HEART PLACE   Dir: Nancy Sabino & Mike Sodano, United States, 83 min, 2005, Documentary ROCK and a HEART PLACE is a documentary that sings the story of Holiday Express, an army of volunteers and world-class musicians from N... more

Rockaway   Dir: Mark Street, United States, 75 min, 2005, Feature In Rockaway, three teenage girls from Queens celebrate their last night of high school on the edge of New York, where the city meets th... more

September Tapes   Dir: Christian Johnston, United States, 95 min, 2005, Feature One year after 9/11, an American journalist travels to Afghanistan in an effort to learn the truth about the search for Osama bin Laden... more

SHE HE   Dir: Massimo Amici, Italy, 8 min, 2005, Short Two dreams. His and hers. The instant we fall in love we feel like we have it all but can at the same time lose everything. The fragili... more winner: Best Short

Smoked   Dir: Julio Ponce Palmieri, Canada, 73 min, 2005, Feature Tito Rivera, a psychotic undercover cop is in the process of transferring a recently captured fugitive upstate. Accompanied by his part... more

So Glad I Made It   Dir: Chris Sautter, United States, 98 min, 2005, Documentary So Glad I Made It is the story of singer songwriter Roger Salloom, a 50-something former 1960s San Francisco psychedelic rocker and 197... more

Stalin's Wife   Dir: Slava Tsukerman, United States, 104 min, 2004, Documentary Just a brief time ago, an air of mystery surrounded the private lives of all the leaders of Soviet Russia. Life of Stalin's wife Nadezh... more

Streams of Gold   Dir: John Tweedy, United States, 62 min, 2005, Documentary When Mellick Tweedy rode his mule into the Ecuadoran mining camp of Portovelo in 1916 seeking gold, he firmly believed in the power of... more

SWITCH OFF   Dir: Manel Mayol, Spain, 87 min, 2004, Documentary The Bío Bío is the longest river in Chile, flowing from its source in the Andes to the Pacific Ocean. An enormously valuable ecosystem,... more

Tweek City   Dir: Eric G. Johnson, United States, 86 min, 2005, Feature Bill, a young, sexually confused, half-Latino speed-dealer in San Francisco's Mission District, picks up a bag of crystal meth and star... more

Video Out   Dir: Paul Vlachos & Meredith Finkelstein, United States, 83 min, 2004, Documentary From the psychedlic light shows of the 1960's to the heady, early days of experimental video art and New York's nascent Soho Scene to t... more

Wonderful Night in Split, A   Dir: Arsen Anton Ostojic, Croatia, 100 min, 2004, Feature In the dark and deserted streets of the Croatian city of Split's medieval Ghetto, during the final two hours of New Year's Eve, three s... more winner: Best Director

You Drive   Dir: Jason Koxvold, United States, 4 min, 2005, Music Video 'You Drive' follows Jason Koxvold's critically acclaimed music video for Citizens Here and Abroad, 'Appearances'. Shot in San Francisco... more winner: Best Music Video