Cine Pobre Film Festival - The World's Best Self Funded Films

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THE WORLD'S BEST SELF-FUNDED FILMS XXII OFFICIAL SELECTION 2024 CALL FOR ENTRIES XXIII 2025

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Dani Feixas
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Salih Cihan Özalp
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Esteban Santana Guerrero
Anton
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Eloy Gurucharri
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Muriel Montini
Jaicheng Xai Dohutia
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Tábata Clarissa de Morais
Gustavo Campos
Nurdan Tekeoglu

Mother

The true story about a 3 years old boy who was abandoned at a landfill by his mother but later finds the strength to forgive her.

By Michail Komlev

CIA - Club Internacional Aguerridos

CIA - Club Internacional Aguerridos

Filming aimlessly in a punk dominated ghetto a pseudo bourgeois cineaste ends up starring in his own breakneck movie.

By Leandro C�rdova

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

Who knew that Lenin established the world's first film school?

By EL Pobre Profe

March 2025

Hallelujah salvation and glory!

Hallelujah salvation and glory!

In the small town of Nova Tessal�nica, a miracle happens! But the saint who rises from the ground brings more than joy. She is God's messenger for humanity's ultimate test.

By Fl�vio Carnielli

A Sunny Christmas

A Sunny Christmas

A Sunny Christmas is an animated short, based off the artwork of Joseph R. Davis, about a sad doll named Sunny and his holiday surprise one Christmas Eve night.

By Brian Gerson Gerson

OK Faces

When a separated couple moves into different apartments, they both try to take new selfies to show they�re also moving on.

Tryout Zone

A young man is waiting beside a wall. He walks, smokes and eats a cake to pass the useless time. Meanwhile a vehicle stops and leaves a package on the street. http://kraw.blog.com/shortfilms/tryoutzone/

By Khashayar Rahimi

The Hitchhiker

Luke was an outstanding student with a promising future in the business world, but it all ended with his fateful death in a car crash. After more than 25 years in pursuit of his deceased brother's dream, Mark Seymore has lost the joy of life and it i ...

Babylon What Then?

Babylon What Then?

Babylon stood for globalization, war, consumerism and environmental degradation. What else is new?

Ecoalaize e Michael Dread

Ecoalaize e Michael Dread

In the concrete jungle is so, I see several killing each "din din", between the alley and the alley are the end, my way I'll treading, Jah looks for me.

By fernando narasaki

OTOHIME 20000

A mysterious woman returns to her old apartment after 20,000 years.

By Naoyuki NIIYA

Le Moral des Troupes

Le Moral des Troupes

https://www.facebook.com/Le-Moral-des-troupes-le-film-777286115712036/

By Marcia Romano & Beno�t Sabatier

Skeletons in The Closet

Skeletons in The Closet

Skeletons in The Closet centers around Ben Aitken. He is a lonely man who has a uneasy obsession with his deceased Mother. After his Mothers death Ben falls for a beautiful woman Sandra Brown at his work place. But how far will he take his obsession?

el mundo futuro

el mundo futuro

In the war of the worlds...the hero might not be who you think. I had a dream that the balance between life, death and the cosmos was in the balance of one man. Not your typical hero but a common man. Not a man you might chose to hold the torch for a ...

By Jeffrey Schreckler

Fusion

The film explores the Yin in the Yang and is a message to our male dominated civilization. It's an invitation to men to discover both energies in them, independently of their sexuality. To let go of their fear of the archetypal woman energy physicall ...

By Vahe Abrahamyan

VOCE Safado

Manaos, Brasil. At a luxurious hotel time and space melt and mix when a perturbed man begins to look for someone or something. (First part of the trilogy).

By Lucila Riggio

In the fifties, Elfred, doctor in a psychiatric hospital witnesses the arrival of Charles Serin, a doctor from another establishment, and with him the discovery of a terrible secret buried within the heart the estate

By Arnold de Parscau

Sam Pollard: film editor & producer

Sam Pollard: film editor & producer

Sam Pollard is an Academy Award nominated and multiple Emmy winning producer, director, and editor. His professional accomplishments span almost thirty years. He has directed and produced an accolade of noteworthy documentaries, such as Brother Outsi ...

By EL Pobre Profe

The True Story of Vincent Legrand

The True Story of Vincent Legrand

Documentary director Roger and his crew follow the famous and whimsical street magician Vincent Legrand (Etienne Pradier) as he plans to perform an epic final trick before retiring. However, things go out of hand and they realise that the whole plan ...

2:AM

Three strangers are forced to make a questionable decision when they discover a body in a diner�s bathroom. 2:AM is a North-West short Fincher style psychological thriller. Directed by Manchester-based Chris Cronin, produced by Bolton-based Philip M ...

By Phil Meachem

Ace on Fire

Packing a thermal punch, Ace On Fire is a motion picture layered with action, seduction, and secret esoteric imagery. A young bar owner and tech savvy computer hacker named �Ace�, becomes the benefactor of a large estate. When his suppliant and mento ...

By Kristian Messere

Nadie

A date in a cafe. Or two. Or three. Of course the girl did not want be alone. And in the 21st century everything seems easier. Or not...

By Daniel Le�n Lacave

Siberia

When Sputnik II was sent into space with a dog, named Laika on board, it was a major leap for science. Laika�s unfortunate death in space was lauded as a worthy sacrifice for the sake of the betterment of humankind�s forays into space. But that�s ...

By Faraz Arif Ansari

A mom picks up her young son from swimming lessons and finds out he molested a girl his age.

By Ely Chevillot

Cinema

The story revolves around a child Qasim who is extremely poor and lives with his father who�s always into drugs. Qasim works on a traffic signal washes the wind screen of cars and earns a little. He is curious to watch the movie which is released in ...

By Abdullah Khan

Fason Nou/Our way

Fason Nou/Our way

A weekend retreat between an interracial couple and their in-laws takes a dark turn when they discover that their house is haunted by the ghosts of an interracial couple from from the 1950's who has no patience for intolerance.

By Romane Simon

Zsazsa

A memory from the past can be so vivid that you just can't get away from it. The film takes the 60 years old Zsazsa to a journey to fight against her old demons who are there since age eight when she went through a sexual trauma.

By Akos Schneider

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Building bridges based on the
belief that film becomes art
only when its materials are as
inexpensive as pencil & paper

Cine Pobre is the 100%
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NOTABLES
The Last Photo
The Model
Fourteen Days
La Descorrupcion
Yomigaeru To Live Again
Veni Etiam
The Servant
Young Syrian Lenses
Brazil is Not Copacabana
Forest of Copper Columns
About Killing The Pig
The Caramel Corn Riot
Fiona Humphrey: A Family Album

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