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Robin Bisio
Lorenzo Harani
Arturo López
Carme Puche Moré
Jean Apa
Heloisa Machado
Francisco Tomás Sanchez
mohammad Kazemzadeh mojde
Willy Burrut (seudónimo d
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Dani Feixas
Nima Tabandeh
Salih Cihan Özalp
Orangel Lugo
Rodrigo Sena
Esteban Santana Guerrero
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Broken Side of Time

Broken Side of Time

A 30-year-old model is not only tired of competing with 18-year-olds but also realizes that the side effects of what makes her feel most alive are destroying her.

By Gorman Bechard

A Few Knots Away

A Few Knots Away

Unsustainability forces several families to abandon their island home.

By Mansour Forouzesh

Aquí Nadie Vivirá Para Siempre

Aquí Nadie Vivirá Para Siempre

To live in the State with the highest rate of femicides in the world.

By Carlos Altamirano

NOVEMBER 2025

Dring of the dead

Dring of the dead

A zombie girl is after a man. He hides in a telephone box, trying to call for help... But the zombie finds him and assaults the phone box.

By Ga�l Pouvreau

qoyo

#qoyo is a short film about a guy who experiences a situation, which made him, go to the streets and expresses his opinion his was.

By essam emadeldin

Follow Me Down Again

Follow Me Down Again

"Hell is the place where nothing connects"

By Monique van Kerkhof

Of Cats, Dogs, Farm Animals and Sashimi

Of Cats, Dogs, Farm Animals and Sashimi

An out of school Subanen boy named Dondon went to Sitio Tangalan in the baranggay of Kawayan, Alicia, Zamboanga Sibugay to work in a rubber plantation. At tender age, he was already exposed to hardship and toil being a son to a mother who works as a ...

If The Artist Can Not FInd The Way... Then The Way Can Not Be Found

If The Artist Can Not FInd The Way... Then The Way Can Not Be Found

Terence McKenna - You Must Have A Plan

An inocent saleslady in a terrible trap after offer some clean products to a man

By Cristiano Sousa

What a Wonderful World / Ce Lume Minunata

What a Wonderful World / Ce Lume Minunata

After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist au ...

By Sergiu Cumatrenco

Cuando hay una parte de ti que no conoces, vives en permanente escisi�n. Despu�s de casi diez a�os juntos, la relaci�n de Laura y Dani est� pasando por un mal momento. Las continuas pesadillas nocturnas est�n afectando seriamente al car�cter de Dani. Sus habituales m ...

Robot Vitaliy (????? ???????)

Robot Vitaliy (????? ???????)

The video for the band's song "Neschastniy sluchay ". History rather short life robot romance and his friends

By Natalya Berezovaya

Coming To

A man wakes up in a Koreatown hallway, naked except for a cock ring and a frilly scarf. Shot in one continuous five-minute take, Coming To follows the true story of a young man who wakes up from a meth relapse, as he puts together the pieces of ho ...

Jos� M�rio Branco, a multitalented man who have been using his songs to transform the country and whose lyrics make as much sense today as they did 40 years ago. The shooting began in 2005 covered seven years of rehearsals, recording, talks and concerts, ...

By nelson pedro

Because of Writing

Because of Writing

Because of Writing is a story of a writer lost of his own mind, haunted in the dark by hallucination, illusion and a mysterious presence. His life is a struggling between a strong love for a prostitute, his wife�s contempt and the passion for writing ...

By Pier Paolo De Rosa

Alderan

The peaceful town of South Alderan has its routine modified with the arrival of an object from outer-space. Old man Raimundo, Z�, the bar owner, and young Luiza are the first to encounter the mysterious object. The community of Alderan becomes the stag ...

By Jo�o Pedro Bastos Torrero Diaz

Dunes

Three stages on a life�s man, show the story of his heartbreak.

By Alexander Quezada

The fortune you seek is in another cookie

The fortune you seek is in another cookie

The fortune you seek is in another cookie a dizzying journey around the world in search for happiness as a poetic and political practice. The filmmaker finds himself at the protests in and around Gezi Park, Istanbul, in front of the gates of the Ci ...

By Johannes Gierlinger

Spectral Transmission: Ep.1 It Waits in the Attic

Spectral Transmission: Ep.1 "It Waits in the Attic"

SPECTRAL TRANSMISSION is a Science Fiction/Fantasy Anthology TV series created by Cinema and Screen Studies Assistant Professor Jacob Dodd and 6 undergraduate students at SUNY Oswego. The series comprises of 22 minute episodes filmed locally in Centr ...

The Marvin Case

The Marvin Case

The disappearance of a capricious cat leads to the biggest financial crisis in history.

By Lewis Eizykman

The Candidate

The Candidate goes through a rigorous vetting process to determine if he is The One for someone's very specific agenda.

By Blaire Baron

La gente llega hasta donde quiere

La gente llega hasta donde quiere

Taxistas, peluqueros y vendedores ambulantes respondiendo a las preguntas: �Qui�n soy? �Hacia d�nde voy?

By C�sar Cepeda

While in the Ida mountains artisan farmers are breeding indigenous cattle, producing organic olive oil and growing traditional old seed the population in the big cities are fed cancer breeding food from industrial complexes. As the world gets towards ...

By Ethem �zg�ven

I am Siegfried (Ich, Siegfried)

I am Siegfried (Ich, Siegfried)

Milan Gr�newald's graduation film "I am Siegfried" at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne is a new saga, which is based on a multitude of stories about the Nibelungs.The setting is a modern city, the court of the Burgundians a penthouse of wealthy Gunt ...

By Milan Gr�newald

Dicen Que Soy Su Maestra

Dicen Que Soy Su Maestra

Dep�es de alfabetizar a miles de Afro-Americanos en Carolina del Sur una esteticista llev� sus alumnos hac�a un profundo proceso de transformaci�n social.

By Catherine Murphy

TREASURE NEST

Treasure Nest is a 3D animated short following the adventures of Blue a cat-like creature in search of hidden riches. Along his way Blue discovers a bird-like creature named Peanut who he reluctantly brings along in hopes that she will be the key to ...

By Meng-Chwen (JOY ) Tien

Letting Go

We are all trapped within invisible walls of perception and thoughts in our minds. This short film tries to artistically depict the inner and outer journey of a man who finally decides to break free. It has been attempted to do so in the dreamy state ...

By Vishal Sarma

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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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