Mill Valley Film Festival - 5@5

5@5: Change Your Mind

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:44:57 -0500

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When our mind plays tricks on us, many strange and beautiful things can happen. From deep dreams to mental challenges, these shorts travel the byways of our brains to great effect.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Assertion Techniques, Paradox, Phobias, Rose, She He, Vagabond Shoes

5@5: Comes a Time

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:47:44 -0500

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There comes a time when our lives call out for a change. Follow the journeys of the colorful characters in this array of shorts as they each embark on their singular searches to find a new way of life.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Cold Kenya, Disappearing, Duck Man, Dupe, Fishy, It's My Turn Now, Ready

5@5: Falling off the Face of the Earth

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:27:22 -0500

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With suspense, humor, poignancy and often surprising equanimity, these captivating shorts encourage us to confront mortality-some with a gentle nudge and others with a powerful punch.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Across the Hall, Kuboå, Morbid Curiosity, The Shovel, The Substitute, 'Til Death

5@5: I Am a Child

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:34:31 -0500

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Family dynamics are an endless resource of rich, funny and heartbreaking stories. And, as in these shorts, it's often our childhood experiences that set us up for the tales to be told later.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Bright Lights, Father's Day, Fourteen, Locked Upstairs, The Ranch, The Stories, What Remains

5@5: Truth Be Known

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:49:10 -0500

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How do we judge what is true and what is real? How can the medium of film or video manipulate the truth and fabricate a whole new reality? Complicated questions call for shrewd shorts, and here's where to get 'em!

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: 00h17, Apocalypse Oz, Cataract, Filter, Gandhi at the Bat, Screening

5@5: When You Dance You Can Really Love

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:46:20 -0500

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The beautiful but complicated choreography of love and intimacy is explored from many perspectives and camera angles in these shorts of passion, both blossoming and breaking.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Breathe Me, I'm Not Going to Think About Her, The Lovers, Minutiae, Mono, Orange Blossom, Shortstop