On the border of Bolivia and Argentina, where stunning scenery contrasts with the hopeless poverty of the inhabitatnts in their remote villages, a plane lands carrying a young man dressed as a priest and bringing luggage apparently stuffed with bibles for the salvation of souls. But in these parts people need a different kind of salvation. To make a living, the villagers produce original ceramic works: the patterns, together with their destiny, are engraved using the bones of dead ancestors. Pedro?s fate, after a dramatic event, is in the hands of these inhabitants. Conversely, the village sees the sudden arrival of a priest as a sign and a chance to change their destiny. They are in disagreement as to how to overcome their poverty: either they continue their potter?s trade, or surrender to the avarice of some of them and destroy their sacred sites and culture. The hopes of both camps lie with Pedro: he is deemed the most qualified judge. Destiny is an adaptation of the novel by H?ctor Tiz?n, The Man Who Came to a Village (El hombre que lleg? a un pueblo).

Miguel Pereira (b. 1957, San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina) studied film in Buenos Aires, at Minnesota University and later in London at the International Film School. In London he made documentaries for the BBC and Channel Four. After returning to Argentina he worked in practically all areas of the film industry. He is currently President and Artistic Director of the Mar del Plata International Film Festival, and he also directs and produces films in his company Capablanca Films. Select documentaries: Jujuy 400 Times (1993 ? Golden Columbus in Huelva), Che... Ernesto (1997). Feature films: The Debt (1988 ? Silver Bear in Berlin, Silver Hugo in Chicago, Silver Makhila in Biarritz), The Last Harvest (1990 ? Best Screenplay at the festival in Huelva, Bronze Sakura in Tokyo).

Based on an English academic's memoir on stalking and being stalked, Unrequited Love is a film essay on cinema and absence (a story told without reverse angles), on Hitchcock and Antonioni, on cinema and cities. A story of waiting, self-delusion, panic, fear of violence, of a modern technology which defines the urban stalker as it does the new terrorist. The methods duplicate: irrational and targeted -- a black valentine.

"Chris Petit is a prolific filmmaker and writer of international standing.

His feature films include Radio On (1979) and Chinese Boxes (1984). More recent experimental work includes Negative Space (2000)-- an essay on the legendary American painter and film critic, Manny Farber - and film collaborations with his fellow writer Iain Sinclair, among them The Falconer (1997), Asylum (2000) and London Orbital (2002). As a novelist he has specialised in revealing secret political histories: The Psalm Killer (1996), The Human Pool (2002) and The Passenger (2006). He is the only man alive who appears in the Pocket Essential guides to both Agatha Christie (as director of Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery; 1989) and London Writing (as author of Robinson; 1993)."

"The Monks waren f?nf amerikanische GIs in Deutschland w?hrend des Kalten Krieges, die sich selbst als Anti-Beatles ank?ndigten. Sie sparten nicht mit Feedback, Nihilismus oder dem elektrischen Banjo. Sie hatten komische Frisuren, waren schwarz gekleidet, machten sich ?ber das Milit?r lustig und rockten h?rter als jeder ihrer Vorg?nger Mitte der Sechziger w?hrend sie quasi Industrial Music, Heavy Metal, Punk und Techno erfanden.

Der genre-?bergreifende Dokumentarfilm zeigt nicht nur das Popmusik-Ph?nomen in einem politischen, sozialen und kulturell-historischen Kontext, sondern enth?llt auch das Monks-Projekt als die erste Verbindung von Kunst und Popmusik, die Monate vor Andy Warhol und The Velvet Underground.

Die f?nf Protagonisten des Films kamen 1961 w?hrend des Kalten Krieges als Soldaten nach Deutschland und verlie?en das Land 1967 als Avantgarde-Monks. Mehr als 30 Jahre konnten sie nicht ?ber ihre seltsame Erfahrung sprechen. In diesem Film erz?hlen die f?nf Original-Bandmitglieder zum ersten Mal ?ber ihr Abenteuer. "

"Dietmar Post films as director/producer:

Bowl of Oatmeal (short, USA, 1996, 16mm, 10 min)

Cloven Hoofed (short, USA/Germany/Spain, 1998, 16mm, 12 min)

Reverend Billy (documentary, USA/Germany/Spain, 2002, digital video/16:9, 60 min)

Luc?a Palacios as producer and production manager include:

Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping, documentary by Dietmar Post.

The Nomi Song, documentary by Andrew Horn for WDR (Germany).

La Espalda del mundo, documentary by Javier Corcuera for El?as Querejeta P.C (Spain).

Cloven Hoofed, short by Dietmar Post (Germany/USA)."

they were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical banjo. They had strange haircuts, dressed in black, mocked the military and rocked harder than any of their mid-sixties counterparts while managing to basically invent industrial, heavy metal, punk and techno music.

The genre-overlapping documentary film not only illustrates the pop music phenomenon in its political, social and cultural-historic contexts, but also reveals the monks project as the first marriage of art and popular music and this months before Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground.

The five protagonists of the film came to cold war Germany in 1961 as soldiers and left the country in 1967 as avant-garde monks. For more than thirty years they were not able to talk about their strange experience. In the film the five original band members recount for the first time their adventure."

"Dietmar Post was born in Germany in 1962. He studied Television, Theatre & Cinema Studies and Spanish Language at the Free University of Berlin, New York University and at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). He received a Master?s degree in 1995. After living for many years in New York Post currently resides in Berlin.

Luc?a Palacios was born in Spain in 1972. She studied Cinema Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1996 she obtained a scholarship at New York University through the Spanish government. While in New York she worked as production manager for several films and as TV news reporter for Canal+Televisi?n Espa?ola and SAT. Currently she resides in Berlin (Germany)."

In Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which gives the family of the victim ownership of the offender?s life. DAY BREAK - based on a compilation of true stories and shot inside Tehran's century-old prison - revolves around the imminent execution of Mansour, a man found guilty of murder. When the family of the victim does not show up on the appointed day of the sentencing, Mansour?s execution is postponed again and again. Stuck inside the purgatory of his own mind, he waits as time passes on without him, caught between life and death, retribution and forgiveness.

Hamid Rahmanian is a filmmaker and graphic designer. He holds a B.F.A. from the university of Tehran in Graphic Design and earned a M.F.A. in Computer Animation in 1997 from Pratt Institute in New York City. His 19 minute experimental short, AN I WITHIN, received Kodak?s ?Best Cinematography Award? and ?Best American Short? from the LA Int?l short film festival. Mr. Rahmanian has made three documentaries BREAKING BREAD (2000), SIR ALFRED OF CHARLES DE GAULLE AIRPORT (2001) and SHAHRBANOO (2002). In 2003, Mr.Rahmanian co-established ARTEEAST. He works as the adviser of film programs for Cinema East, which is now in its 5th Season. DAY BREAK is his first feature film.

"The Seventh Day (6 min), Beta SP, Animation, 1996

An I Within (19 min), 35 mm, Live action/animation, 1999

Breaking Bread (54 min), vd, Documentary, 2000

Sir Alfred of Charles de Gaulle Airport (29 min), dv, Documentary, 2001

Shahrbanoo (57 min), dv, Documentary, 2002"

He's an apple on a tree, happily hanging among other apples, enjoying the sun and letting the wind caress his body. But there is one thing intriguing him: he wants to find out what it?s like to be a man.

"Astrid Rieger

1979 born in Kronstadt- Romania

1990 immigration to Germany

since 1999 studies of ?Visual Communication? at Academy of Art and Design Offenbach

Zeljko Vidovic

1975 born in Livno

since 1999 studies of ?Visual Communication? at Academy of Art and Design Offenbach"

Astrid Rieger

(2001) Maudi

(2002) Die Expedition zum S?dpol

(2002) Luftl?cher

(2003) Scharlach

(2004) Rimbaud

(2006) Apple On A Tree

(2006) Mammal

In their close relationship mother and son are affiliated to an inseparable entity, where inside and outside, imagination and reality, self and other no longer differ.

The mother tries hard, to maintain this state, but she cannot stop an evolution, that makes her son let loose.

Astrid Rieger

1979 born in Kronstadt- Romania

1990 immigration to Germany

since 1999 studies of ?Visual Communication? at Academy of Art and Design Offenbach

Astrid Rieger

(2001) Maudi

(2002) Die Expedition zum S?dpol (The Expedition To The South Pole)

(2002) Luftl?cher (Holes in the air)

(2003) Scharlach (Scarlet)

(2004) Rimbaud

(2006) Apple On A Tree

(2006) Mammal

1961 wurde S?dkoreas Regierung durch einen von General Park Chung Hee gef?hrten Milit?rputsch entmachtet. Danach f?hrte Park das Land 18 Jahre mit eiserner Hand und war wegbereitend f?r Koreas Aufstieg zum modernen Industrieland. Im Oktober 1979 wurde er ermordet. Am fraglichen Tag, machte Park sich einen sch?nen Abend mit Wein, Weib und japanischen Gesang. Mit am Tisch, der Chef des Koreanischen Geheimdienstes Kim, Chefsekret?r Yang und der dicke Bodyguard Cha. Einer davon sollte sich im Verlaufe des Abends dazu entscheiden, den Pr?sidenten zu erschie?en. Sang-Soo Ims Politthriller, hat in S?dkorea heftige Diskussion ausgel?st. Es mussten schlie?lich auf Befehl des Obersten Gerichtshofs insgesamt vier Minuten Archivmaterial am Anfang und Ende des Films entfernt werden. Trotzdem ist der Thriller, teils schwarze Kom?die, ein bis in die Nebenrollen bestens besetztes, hochunterhaltsames St?ck Politfiktion.

Born in 1962 in Seoul, he studied Sociology at Yonsei University. His father was a leading film critic in the 1980s and in 1989 he went on to study film for one year at the Korean film Academy. That same year he worked as assistant director for Park Jongwon's KURO ARIRANG (1989). He then worked as assistant director to the great Korean director Im Kwontaek (Cannes best director CHIHWASEON) for THE GENERAL'S SON I & II.

He made his feature-debut as writer-director in 1998 with GIRLS NIGHT OUT, the story of 3 single women and their active sex lives. His next film, TEARS, which he also wrote, told the hard story of misfit and wayward Korean youth. His third film, A GOOD LAWYER?S WIFE which threw a punch at Korean society with its biting depiction of a disintegrating upper middle class family was not only embraced by the Korean public but also earned the film international acclaim especially through its selection in competition for the Venice Film Festival in 2003.

His forthright critique of Korea?s mainstream society and its rules and values has truly established him as perhaps the most controversial Korean filmmaker who challenges the norm. In his most recent feature project, THE PRESIDENT?S LAST BANG, he succeeds in giving a cinematically outstanding and mature approach to one of the most shocking incidents in modern Korean history.

Pod is a migrant worker from up-country who drifts from job to job: chopping his finger off in a sardine factory, becoming a security guard and eventually a taxi driver. He meets Jin, a maid who has her nose perpetually buried in a mysterious white book written in a foreign language that she dreams of someday understanding. Pod is smitten. But the Jin becomes obsessed with a hippie westerner and the environmental movement. Somehow, Pod becomes a celebrity because he is the only guy in Bangkok without a tail. If he grows one, he?ll just be one of the crowd, a ?Citizen Dog? alluded to in the title.

After training at Silpakorn University, Bangkok's most important art school, Wisit Sasanatieng worked as a commercials' director. He wrote scripts for his friend and colleague Nonzee Nimibutr, including for Nang nak (1999). ?Tears of the Black Tiger (2000)?, his directing d?but, is the first Thai film ever selected officially for the Cannes Film Festival, where it was bought for many countries.

"Mah nakorn (2004) aka Citizen Dog

Fah talai jone (2000) aka Tears of the Black Tiger "

During the Nazi period in Germany, young Marie meets the Jewish clown Jakob who gives away balloons for the price of a smile. But Marie cannot satisfy Jakob?s wish. Through a tragic misunderstanding the situation escalates and for a while it seems as if Marie will have to owe him her smile forever.

But decades later, fate brings the two of them back together again.

Bernd's car breaks down. The road is deserted. Frighteningly so. He contacts a towing service. He waits. He sleeps. Suddenly there?s a knock on his window. It?s Klytaemnestra on crutches, asking for a lift. But obviously he can?t help her. Quite annoyed, she limps away. On the spur of the moment Bernd follows her, trying to gain her trust. Very unexpectedly she kisses him.

Together they move on, but Klytaemnestra?s husband appears, trying to bar their way. But Bernd knocks him down to save her. They get into the husband?s Jeep and drive into the night, when a tractor, with a trailer full of pigs, blocks the road. It?s Klytaemnestra?s son, he came to stop her. The animals panic, when a shot goes off. Bernd looses consciousness. He wakes up and looks around. Klytaemnestra is gone. He is alone ? except from some pigs romping about in the grass.....

Florian Schoenherr

Born 29th of October 1965 in Basel (Switzerland)

1996 Stipend of ?Evangelische Medienakademie? (Protestant Media Academy)

Move to Athens and establishment of the videoproduction company OFZOE

till 2000 author for different newspapers

2001 Move to Frankfurt

2002 Work experience for direction (Miguel Alexandre, ?Weil ich gut bin?)

Cooperation for Annette Ernst ( Kiss and Run)

Documentary - Treatment

(Der olympische Kampf der Griechen gegen ihre Natur)

Stipend ?Drehbuchwerkstatt M?nchen? (Screenplay Workshop Munich)

2003 Klyt?mnestra Pocket, screenplay for shortfilm

Bonanza, screenplay for shortfilm (Screenplay Workshop Munich)

Schmerzgrenzen, screenplay (Screenplay Workshop Munich)

Black Man White, Movie - Treatment

DoP, Tabaluga TiVi ? Reihe Verschenktes Gl?ck Sch?lerhilfe Bosnien,

BSB-Film Mediaproduction for ZDF (Public Channel of German Television)

Director, Klyt?mnestra Pocket, Shortfilm, 20min