The major prize-winning short films from the world's most influential film festivals and awards are collected here for Best v Best Vol Two - a definitive selection and showcase of the best shorts and international filmmaking talent of 2005 / 2006, and the second in the Best v Best series from independent film label Shooting People Films.

The ten mini-dramas and docs reflect a refreshing diversity of stories, genres and filmmaking styles. Each of these films, which received top honours, provides a snapshot of lives, characters, situations and emotions - real and fictional, comedic and tragic, universal and personal. Whether six or fifteen minutes, each film involves the audience in the world of the film in a short space of time.

Film included on Best v Best Volume 2 are:

Antonio's Breakfast
by Daniel Mulloy, WInner of Best Short, BAFTA 06
Undressing My Mother
by Ken Wardrop, Winner of Best Short at European Film Awards 05
Respire
by Ho Wi Ding, Winner of Best Short at Sitges Catalonia
The Day I Died (El Dia Quel Moria)
by Maryam Keshavarz, Winner of Teddy Short Film Award at Berlin
The Shovel
by Nick Childs, Best Short at Tribecca 06
Hibernation
by Jon Williams, Winner of Best Short, Edinburgh Film Festival 06
The Secret Language (An Taeanga Runda)
by Brian Durnin, Winner Best Short Film, Cork Film Festival
Sniffer
by Bobbie Peers, Best Short Film, Palme d'Or at Cannes
The Last Farm
by Runar Runarsson, Oscar Nominee and winner of Dresden Short Best Film
Wayfarers
by Igor Strembitskyy, Winner of Best Short Film Tirana 05

All the filmmakers receive a percentage of the income from this DVD to invest in their next films.