CRACK DOG a film by Kasey Kehoe

A young man wanders America's mean streets at night, his trusty canine friend at his side. We learn via voice-over that the man's wish is to introduce his four-legged companion to the joys of crack cocaine. And so, our man enters the shithole appartment of a group of drug dealers, and approaches their door as a pizza delivery boy. Told in no uncertain terms that neither the pizza nor he is wanted at that address, the man dodges a couple of bullets shot through the door in his direction, before bursting into the room and wiping out the three junkies - with the help, of course, of his furry mutt cohort.

DON'T NAG ME a film by Tim Healy and Gino Panaro

It's the story of Ivan, a middle-aged American who has murdered his nagging wife Louise and dumped her corpse in an open grave. Shortly afterwards, Ivan turns himself in to the authorities and is sentenced to the electric chair. We then revisit the events that led to his confession.

BOWL OF OATMEAL a film by Dietmar Post, Lawrence Gice, Matthew Bezanis, David White, Leslie Hucko and Hsia-Huey Wu

The central character is an overweight loner hidden away in his flea-pit bed-sit, who instigates a conversation with a bowl of porridge. The cereal advises the man to get a hobby - and suggests the likes of fishing, horse riding and chess. Rubbishing these suggestions, the man instead chooses to rob a stack of meat from his local butchers. Why? Watch it! You'll enjoy the final frame!

PRINCIPLES OF KARMA a film by Craig Wallace

Stuart (Mike Richen) is a jaded punk teen who finds monotony in everything. His days all blur into one: his parents stock pleasantries to him each afternoon upon his return from school (they don't even look up from the TV, unless it's broken); the daily beatings from the 'jocks'; the boredom of life in a bedroom, listening to the same music night after night; his best friend's moronic attempts at injecting some meaning into their aimless lives ...

It's all very accurate and well-observed to a degree, but it takes a turn midway through when Stuart is abducted by the Youth Liberation Front ... who, in true FIGHT CLUB style, are determined to kick back against the rules and regulations their peers have enforced upon them.

CUTTING MOMENTS a film by Douglas Buck

Patrick and Sarah have been married several years. They have a son, Joey. They live in a nice detached house in a nice neighbourhood. But something is not right.

Communication has broken down within their household. The adults barely speak, and Joey is unnaturally quiet and reserved. He rearranges his toy dolls to simulate acts of buggery upon each other.

Sarah - a painfully yearning turn from Nicca Ray - is craving the attention she won when the couple first married, but has since been starved of. But even moreso, she is tormented with guilt at the fact that she has allowed her son's sexual abuse at the hands of his father to go on for so long.

In an effort to divert Patrick's attentions away from Joey and onto her, Sarah dolls herself up in a red dress and lipstick - but Patrick's enthusiasm cannot be swayed from the football game he's watching on TV.

Emotionally shattered, Sarah then resorts to drastic measures - to purge herself of years of humiliation, guilt and rejection; to finally get a reaction from the husband that no longer notices her; and to bring an end to the torment she has so cowardly let her son live through for far too long.