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Friday's Ghost It’s been three months since Simon’s father passed away and to date his house has been left abandoned. Simon and Friday arrive one day to find their friend, Ntombi, waiting for them. The trio enter the house to do an inspection, and Friday soon becomes convinced the place is haunted, refusing to be left alone at any time. Simon, not sharing Friday’s supernatural suspicions, finds his friend’s nervousness amusing.

Wrinkles of August Short film from a 2002 graduate of the Beijing Film Academy. Showcased at the 2002 edition of the Toronto-based Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF).

Runaway After failing to get into college, Lu Lin has to take up the same job as his father, a railway mechanic, when his dream is to work in the Air Force. Lu Lin takes it one day at a time and lives in constant fear of what the future will bring.

The Diary Denys is 14. He is loser in studies, but expert in DOTA. 'The school diary is your face', - teachers say to him. Every single pupil in post-Soviet states is familiar with this phrase. It means that the notebook with marks - is the projection of your personality. Denys thinks opposite. He records himself everyday and reflects on the things that really worry him. We are behind the scenes of the teenager`s life. The way of growing up - how it looks like?

Coming Future Nakagawa shot “Coming Future” on the nights of December 24 and 25, 2009, in Shibuya, making it his location for an idealized Bohemia in the heart of Tokyo. Interesting interviews/discussions with Kenji Murakami, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Kenji Onishi, Tetsuaki Matsue and more... By far the most interesting sequence is with Kenji Onishi (“A Burning Star”). Wielding a super-8 camera, Onishi documents his own interview, taking random shots of street-life and buildings. He leavens his monologue with statements bordering between cliché and outré. “A movie that aims to make a message is boring.”

Home Match Short documentary depicts the life of Alina Shilova, a 20-year-old girl from Kyiv, whose passion for football has a chance of saving her from poverty. Alina is now a professional player, but her situation remains uncertain: her mother suddenly dies, leaving behind Alina's beloved siblings, Renat and Regina, 6 and 7 years old. Alina becomes a substitute mother. Her career plans are on the verge of collapse. The whole dysfunctional family is living in a cramped one-room apartment. Alina wants to give her brother and sister a better life than the one she had. Will she find the strength to cope with everything? How can you win the match of your life when the odds are stacked against you?

Kabab Mein Haddi On the auspicious day of Dusshera, a London based guy, Takila lands in Chandigarh to marry an Indian girl. He enters his uncle`s house and instead of meeting his would-be-bride girl Maya, a Punjabi girl, he gets caught in the web of an income tax raid.

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