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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

The Long Haul

Conor and Pete have come to realise that their life of crime is dangerous. Now they want to get out of the business. Here goes nothing...

By Arran Tenzin Bradstock

TUKTUQ

A cameraman is hired by a Government Agency to document the Inuit community of Nunavuk. During his time there he acquires a deep knowledge of the survival economy of the people and the richness of the natural territory. He is informed that his work w ...

By Robin Aubert

Dear Pauline Jean

Dear Pauline Jean

Pauline Jean is an actress caught in a circular holding pattern. Stuck behind the many faces she has constructed, she must risk giving the scariest performance of her life: being herself. In the midst of her existential crisis, she writes a letter t ...

By Shirley Bruno

A Saga (Una Saga)

A Saga (Una Saga)

Leo, Ricardo, Marcos, To�o and Roberto are brothers and all of them played for Real Madrid, known as "The Azcona", five brothers, one dream. Twenty years later they look back to those glorious days

The Silence of Our Friends

The Silence of Our Friends

Elise is on her way to a school parent-teacher night. Her daughter's been involved in a bullying incident. Elise arrives late to find that the others have already gotten started. To everyone's surprise, the teacher has found an unusual way to convey ...

By Iina Lempi�inen

Limbo

A woman awakes in a dark room, without knowing how she arrived there. She will then try to escape the lonely room through the only door, although a series of events will prevent her from doing so.

Choir

A Short Film About Amateurs.

By Vittoria Paglino

YACUNA

Gran parte del conocimiento ancestral Maya esta contenido en Chiich una anciana maya, Su nieta Yaakunah es la heredera de este saber, la base para la medicina del futuro, el pelda�o de la ecolog�a global., pero esta distra�da con su amor imposible. Chiiich ...

By Eustaquio Del Rio

Love X Bites

Sharing a hotel room during quarantine two young women begin to form a relationship.

"If some want to perpetuate colonization, Malagasy people must oppose it with a strong no, whoever the colonists are !" Thus spoke Felix Robson, our grandfather to all. Like so many others, Felix fought during the March 29, 1947 uprising to reclaim f ...

By Nantenaina Lova

God by the Neck (Dios por el Cuello)

God by the Neck (Dios por el Cuello)

It�s Sunday, and Pablo, 8 years old, has an invitation to a very special but also forbidden birthday party. It�s Sunday, and for the first time, Pablo is going on a door-to-door preaching with his mother. It�s Sunday, and behind each door, there is a ...

By Jos� Trigueiros

Untimely

In the heat of summer, a young private is manning a watchtower in the Balochistan region divided between Pakistan and Iran.

By Pouya Eshtehardi

Joggaren

A swedish short comedy film about a man who stumbles upon a strange Jogger. Starring: Pel Lindberg and Daniel Chilla.

By Pauli Janhunen Calderon

Misery Loves Company

Misery Loves Company

MISERY LOVES COMPANY is a film about personal growth and emotional understanding in the guise of a dark romantic comedy. Brian Norton (Peter O�Brien) is a broken-hearted projectionist with a chip on his shoulder. After getting dumped by his curren ...

By Peter O'Brien

Taiyyam

The film covers a tradition called Taiyyam, as old as time itself. Featuring three asura / powerful nature deities connected to Shiva, the documentary attempts a modern day interpretation of its message philosophically through the looking glass of my ...

By Pooja Mohite

Massive Amounts of Subversive Art

Massive Amounts of Subversive Art

"Well now you can find the others, you don't have to stick a flower in your hair and go to San Francisco. You just go to the Web. Find the others. We all need to create affinity groups which are subsets of the much larger community that we're part of ...

By J. Michael Seyfert

Fantastic

Balloon men, crazed composers, horny history teachers, poets trapped in experimental film cliches, talking donuts, the Hawaiian Wizard of Oz, and OTHER THINGS are set amongst some of the greatest (and rarest) classical pieces of all time in this live ...

By Vincent Gargiulo

Cling Film

Amongst the columns here he goes, touching their inside, hearing their surface, seeing the sound of distance. Language disappears in flux of journey, our man has new kind of news.

By paulius anicas

LO

The Cambodia counts 15 million inhabitants, among whom more than 10 millions live in rural areas. No more than 7 millions of these villagers have any access to the drinking water, and have other choice than to consume the water of rivers or puddles. ...

By R�mi Briand

The Storyteller

The Storyteller

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

By Alex Emanuel

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Habana streets vibrate all day long, People invade them and practice all kind of sports. From childhood, to old age. From marbles, to domino. Always. Popular tradition or lack of technology?

By Tian Cartier

Anima Radix

A journey of metamorphosis, death and rebirth to emerge from a dark world.

By Fernando Silva De la Cruz

The Aristocrats

The Aristocrats

Obscene, disgusting, vulgar, vile! 101 superstar comedians tell the same utterly filthy joke --one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville. (MATURE)

By ideólogo monofóbico

Since 2002

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[ Call for Entries 2025 ]

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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