Dir: Rob Peyrebrune

Again we find the subject of work, but certainly a worker of a different ilk. With a wonderfully happenstance style that matches our poor protagonist—whom we wish would realize that he actually just does not want a job—Unemployed brings us through the common and routine trials tht it takes to get what no one really wants to ask for.

Dir: Guillermo Alejandro Vazquez

If only the political leaders of the world could take up a solution to overcome issues of language barriers and cultural adaptation in as simple and fun of a way as Azul does, we might just have a population explosion on our way.

Dir: Lawrence Ferrara

No matter what the setting—let's say a leather bar—everyone has different expectations and undertandings of what others are looking for. Considering that it is Michael's first trip into a leather bar, he certainly knows how to get what he wants.

Dir: Chelsea Spear

Emily, a star student, may not be able to play perfectly with the others. But no matter what happens on the playground, she returns to class and is taken by a lucid realization of the connections between math and music. Is this just another morning in the classroom for Emily?

Dir: Theodore Collatos

An edgy off-kilter experimental narrative about Solitaire's first and last encounter with her father. As the events of Solitaire are eclipsed by each character's emotions, we are brought to what ultimately will bring this family back together.

Dir: Matthew Rasmussen

Marboxian, with a perfect blend of heartfelt and humorous, follows the homeward journey of a crashed Marboxian Raider: ". . . a mini-masterpiece of animation done via Photoshop on a Macintosh by its Brookline filmmaker. A creature from the far planet of Marbox lands in the wrong universe and, E.T.-fashion, struggles to go home."—Gerald Peary, The Boston Phoenix.