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What are you hiding

What are you hiding

Sound evokes emotion. We don't listen until we trust. An experiment.

By Nikhil Agnihotri

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

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

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

By EL Pobre Profe

OCTOBER 2025

Alfonsina

By Valeria Tochi

Because of Mum

A poetic animated reflection about memories, childhood and upbringing. A girl's message to her Mother. http://www.activist38.com/activist38-film-company/because-of-mum-en.html

By Alexander Ugrinski

Ultimum

Ultimum is about a middle-aged man who experiences many unfortunate incidents in a very short time at a very catastrophic time in his life. He discovers unusual points and make the things shaped again by undefined occurrence of a mysterious man near ...

By Bahadir Karasu

Reznedog

3 people, a sad life, a decision to make. A work about lonliness, detachment from reality, isolation.

By Gianrico Di Gennaro

TETA: A Nursing Mother Tells Her Story

TETA: A Nursing Mother Tells Her Story

Alexandra Hidalgo tells the story of her journey nursing her youngest son, Santiago, for twenty-two months. Teta uses Hidalgo�s narration and the footage shot by her husband to portray the ups and downs of nursing a baby as a working mother of two. A ...

By Alexandra Hidalgo

And You Are?

And You Are is an artistically compassionate film of the effects and revelations of Alzheimers. JEANETTE ROURKE director/writer/performer) and MARGARET DANE (Producer). This abstract film explores what is undoubtedly a personal journey, with a unive ...

By Margaret Dane

The Punished

A poor guy kills a boy by accident and he looses his daughter who dies in a road accident. Thus, he gets punished for his sin.

By Shabbir Mahmood

BLACK RAT

Sydney's own Real Life Superhero, The Black Rat prowls the streets of Newtown at night in his crusade against crime. The documentary reveals his motivations and his past trauma that drove him to not only improve himself but the community he lives in.

The Chicken (A Galinha)

The Chicken (A Galinha)

"The Chicken " is a film with surrealist inspirations , where the chicken begins to dream until the dream comes true, waking up the chicken and taking her back to reality , entering into despair .

By Wlisses freitas alves

Solace

Torn apart by the confrontations in his apartment, a man seeks for any kind of solution.

By Birdjan Kadriov

Are You Volleyball?

Are You Volleyball?

A border fence interrupts the path of a group of Arabian asylum seekers until a ball becomes the catalyst for understanding.

By Mohammad Bakhshi

The Seashell (Goushmahi)

The Seashell (Goushmahi)

"Shayan" comes back to Iran for his father funeral. He remembers their special day in childhood with young father and he does not want to see his father's dead body and destroy his pictures .So he decides not to go his funeral ceremony and go to that ...

By S. Abbas Taheri

THE CLUB

Martial is the greatest � Fight Club � fan. He decides to open his own club, as seen in the David Fincher�s film. The first meeting of � The Club � takes place in an underground car park.

By Alexandre BERGER

Persistence of Memory

Persistence of Memory

A man's inability to move on after the loss of a loved one takes him through the journey of the times they had together.

By Philip Giancola

The Breaking Statues

The Breaking Statues

Family is breaking apart, factory closes - scarred memories breaks open! Patric tries to fix his mistakes, but falls again to weakness and haunting daydreams. When fathers deeds runs in blood, can Patric change his destiny? http://Patsaatkuolevat.fi

Running Shadow and Frozen Boday

Running Shadow and Frozen Boday

I want to express the culture shock I had after I came to the U.S. As an international student, I always felt something was wrong, but I couldn't say what it was. Maybe because of different languages or cultures, I just wanted to tell the audience my ...

STARCI

Three life backgrounds and three different ways of thinking related to one story. This film shows how entirely different people: a poet, a former headmistress of the home for elderly people and a married couple end up in the same place, in one Home f ...

By SANJA PADJEN

Victims Foundation

Victims Foundation

A victim of a car accident is luckily rescued on the spot by ambulance of an NGO called Zakhmi foundation, but it turns out he was not so lucky as the Drivers are also involve in Organs Smuggling and plans to smuggle the victims kidney to their Deal ...

By Basit masood

Hospedaria (Inn)

Hospedaria (Inn)

An old inn, located in central Porto, hosted people with few possessions for many years: prostitutes and people passing by made ??of that place their home for long or short time. At the end of 2013, the landlady, who sub rented the rooms, handed out ...

Kaali Maati

A young Indian farmer changes the course of his life and that of many others.

By Hemantkumar Mahale

It takes a world class athlete to become the Dominican National Champion of Chicken Eating.

By Lucas Estrella

N'kisi Concorde

N'kisi Concorde

N�kisi Concorde, a documentary feature, investigates the lives and work of two Detroit-area outsider artists and visual storytellers, Olayami Dabls and Dmytro Szylak, whose extraordinary installations reflect the power of the imagination unbound by a ...

Kalippaattakaaran(Toymaker)

Kalippaattakaaran(Toymaker)

The film ' kalippaattakkaaran'(Toy maker) tries to define solitude along with showcasing a young man's struggle for existence and survival. from the aching reality that his long lost childhood friend ANNA may never comeback, 'seba' hides himself in ...

By shinos rahman

God's Lamb

For Zakaria (11), son of an Islamic butcher, this year's Feast of Sacrifice will be the first one without his mother. Things get messed up when his mentally disabled brother accidentally gets attached to the lamb intended for the same Feast...

By Kees-Jan Mulder

Since 2002

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belief that film becomes art
only when its materials are as
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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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