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"This DVD brings an eclectic mix of short films that profoundly have a similar theme of loneliness, searching and friendship. Perhaps it shows the times we're living in when a diverse variety of judges, including Dame Judi Dench, Scottish-born director of The Last King of Scotland Kevin Macdonald, and musician Lou Reed, shortlist such honest portraits. Most have melancholic undertones but with bright sparks of hope often leading to sad, profound or uplifting conclusions.

A lonely car park night attendant harbours a secret which incubates his nurturing instinct and a journey of self discovery, in the multifaceted and intimate Booth Story , which also won the Diesel Film Award.

Emily Harris and Yori Bentorim's photographic monochrome masterpiece, Three Towers , reveals how the lives of a simple Italian farmer and his wife are transformed after learning of the 9-11 tragedy from a passing Scottish tourist.

A cosmic coincidence in Zac Nicholson's Lucky Sevens sends a couple of old gents to the race track. Having lost his house, his gnome and now his last buck on a bet Marvin learns the inner meaning of the cosmic coincidence and true friendship.

Sofia struggles with the reappearance of her oppressive family, as she remembers them, and looks back at the decisive moment that caused her to disappear for four years in Alvaro Brechner's humorous diary.

Handsome Sean Brosnan, of father Pierce, stars alongside David Soul in Arran Bowyn's dark, poignant comedy of conscience and consequence, Old Dog .

And James Fox, out on a sunny day's painting in the countryside with his friend played by Robert Hardy, has a surprise in his picnic basket for the psychotic clown Mr Snuggles in Goodbye Mr Snuggles by Jonathan Hopkins.

Raindance founder Elliot Grove told the BBC, "The general public now know that they are guaranteed a really great movie when they come to Raindance, even if they know nothing about it, don't recognise any of the names in it, and may not even have heard of the country it was made in." That's certainly true of this DVD.

And as for the times we're living in, perhaps Kosai Sekine's quirky Festival trailer, involving the latest Japanese dance craze Para Para, says it all: "It's a movie. You should do something."

- The Epoch Times