Rockport Film Festival 2008

The Eyes of Silence is a short story about basic human emotions set in a modern world where hate and war for religion rages. It's emphasis is to depict the underlying sensitivity in a very critical situation and how human values and fervour triumph over the objectives for bloodshed. The contrast of civilizations forms the backdrop of the film.The story revolves around an introspecting terrorist who is an explosives expert and has been given a mission to carry out. With the help of international affiliates he departs on the journey of a lifetime. The terrorist is one with a humane heart and a thoughtful mind and hence realisesthat someone being killed here is like someone back home.The movie simply tries to drive the point that violence spawns violence and it leads to a chain reaction. Sanity prevails only when you pause and analyse the grim truth behind your actions and decide to make a change.

Rwanda. 14 years after the genocide that took away the lives of more than 800.000 people. What's the current situation of the country? What feelings prevail in the hearts of the victims? Can victims and killers live together? What's the importance of education in a society that has lived through a genocide? May a genocide happen again in Rwanda? Who should act when a genocide is happening? Do we, as individuals, have any responsibility?

Four ten-year-olds are kicked out of their favorite playground by two aggressive drunkards. When they realize their parents are not going to help them, there's only one solution. They have to find a way to get the toughest boy in the neighborhood to help them.

Virgil is a thirty-year-old scientist developing technology to permanently preserve human organs for transplant. However, his obsession with his work takes a toll on his marriage. Virgil's only distraction is Emma, a fourteen-year-old student in his wife's high school art class. His sanity hangs in the balance as he struggles to suppress his taboo attraction to the girl. Virgil decides to use his experimental technology to freeze himself in order to align his age with the young girl's. But his plan doesn't turn out the way he'd hoped.

A gift wrapper works hard over the busy Holiday Season. A loyal customer keeps on coming back. There is a precious gift yet to be unwrapped down their path: Right before Christmas, when the snow starts falling and the bells go jingling, they might fall in love.