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Eloy Gurucharri

Self-Deportation: The Untold Tale of a Marginal Woman

Self-Deportation: The Untold Tale of a Marginal Woman

An Asian American woman crosses over into a surreal world after a series of strange encounters on the subway.

Lovely Journey

Combining religion and socialism with sexual feelings.

By Carolina Hindsj�

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

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

By EL Pobre Profe

August 2025

Art

Ten creators from different parts of the world come to Tokyo Wonder Site, a residence for artists in Japan, for sharing experiences, learning from the others and, of course, to make art: visual art, performance, photography, painting� and an experime ...

By Ricardo Gonz�lez

Innocent

A former contract killer tells his daughter how a young girl has changed his life in the past. A story about innocence, war and the abyss of the human mind, told by someone who is both...perpetrator and victim. http://www.mindtwist-studio.com/film/in ...

By Sebastian Schnabel

Crazy Breakers

On a small Mexican Caribbean island a group of boys earns their keep by breakdancing every day.

By Juan Garc�a Berrueta

Gourmandises

To recover the beauty that her sister Snow White stole from her the witch poisons an apple so that she can eat her body.

By Gar�a Lazza

JORA

One morning a young man goes a forest accompanied by his girlfriend, where are placed his recurrent dreams which are ruining his live. There, after a crisis a photographer finds her and take a picture while the other sleeps. the same night the photog ...

By Fernando Garc�a

Ocaso

In a once luxurious house two unhappy elders live sick and plagued by economic problems.

By Oscar Daniel Hern�ndez Moreno

It Was All So Wonderful

It Was All So Wonderful

Feminist painter or traditional housewife? Displaced and isolated, a life of delicate rebellion.

By Kenneth J Harvey

Bladderwort Common

Bladderwort Common

"The Common Bladderwort is a carnivorous plant that captures small organisms. The unsuspecting victim meets a dismal end: unable to escape.".

By Laura Douglas

All My Tomorrows

All My Tomorrows

Endearment complicates the arrangement between a widowed lawyer and a lettered Latina prostitute.

By Jeffrey van Davis

The Storyteller

The Storyteller

A loving but unstable cabbie is desperate to win back his children.

By Alex Emanuel

The Loot

A clown, a robbery, a chase, a flower.

By Nart Zeqiraj

Hole in the stomach

Hole in the stomach

Natalie is fighting a war against her destiny, and the feeling that her body betrays her. Together with her husband, they are struggling the long journey on the way to become Parents

By avivit myasnikov

A dream you dream together is reality

A dream you dream together is reality

"Now what do I do with my atheism? It was killed in action at the Horto. Against my will, I surrender: There is a God and He is Brazilian. From now on, when someone tells me we are stardust, that the Big Bang is the origin of the universe, I�ll ask: ...

By Mauro Reis Corr�a

That's me (??? ???)

That's me (??? ???)

The film talks about a young man's dreams and ambitions of the owner refused to colleges and several areas and he refused to surrender became a skillful painter and participated in exhibitions of painting in the last show that he physically handicapp ...

By hassanein khazaal

Nunca Es Tarde

M�s all� de los raps, beats, y el hip hop mexicano este es un viaje por el carril de la memoria de esta banda aparte y la b�squeda de un sonido siempre cambiante.

By Ramiro Medina Flores

Zombies Rabiosos

Zombies Rabiosos

Zombies Rabiosos retrata la situacion de un vagabundo que al comer sobras en mal estado se transforma en Zombie y desata una rabia acompa�ada de miles de seguidores en una manifestacion donde la sangre y tripa son moneda corriente. Mientras tanto, ...

By Seba Experymental

Death Do Us Apart

Death Do Us Apart

It's a right of passage for a young man called Jake who has never been out in his life and his friends decide to take him on a trip of a lifetime. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3103794/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

LUZ CLARA

�Clear Light� is a short film that shows us the inspiring story of photographer Jos� Cruz and his art. With 20 years of experience, he decides to change life and starts dedicating entirely to photography of newborns. The success of his images has given ...

21.12.2012 12:21

21.12.2012 12:21

December 21, 2012, the world has missed a terrible catastrophe. Today, everything is fine, but do you know what really happened that day? With this short film, you will accompany Tony and finally know the truth, and most importantly, what we have ...

By Jean David IZAMBARD

Fuck You Jessica Blair

Fuck You Jessica Blair

Karni feels detached. Detached from the world, detached from her country, detached from her language and even her own body. That is, until she meets Jessica, who happens to be on a much needed break from her dreamlike American life. While getting los ...

By Karni Haneman

NEW GAZA

An old orthodox jew partners with a Palestinian friend in a small enterprise of American and Israel flag making in Sao Paulo, Brazil to sell them to the Arab protesters. The factory is run by a Korean who employs Bolivian illegal immigrants. Based on ...

By Livio Tragtenberg

Motel Sama

A Motel in a remote place, a former police aspiring writer, mysterious women and an unsolved crime are the ingredients of this erotic thriller. A "road movie noir" that explores different languages to display an unusual last plot in Brazil lost in ti ...

500 years ago Gypsies left India and migrated to various parts of Europe before settling down in Andalusia. Their encounter with this foreign soil was culturally explosive, giving birth to Flamenco.

By Bijoyini Chatterjee

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 ...

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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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