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Tea and Destiny

Tea and Destiny

A young woman joins the United States Army and explains to her father why she enlisted, with emotional results.

By R. Christian Anderson

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

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

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

By EL Pobre Profe

May 2025

Rainbow: A Story About Life

Rainbow: A Story About Life

The last moments of a couple told through the colors of the rainbow.

By Eduardo Wahrhaftig

We Never Break Up

We Never Break Up

A couple had arguments, glitches, took a break from each other. Girl�s mother consoled her. Boy�s friends helped him. Girl returned back the belongings of boy after calling him home. Both got separated. Both remembered each other badly after the figh ...

By Rahul Sharma

Potter's Field

Potter�s Field is the story of Sam Cantor�s life through his death. Sam is lost, in a world that is strangely familiar but foreign to him. That�s where Peter finds him. Peter takes Sam on a journey through Sam�s past, his memories and sensations. All ...

By Theodore Schaefer

Second Round

Music video for the song "Segundo Round" by Delanada. http://delanada.es/category/delanada-videos/

By Pilar Pascual Cerd�n

Full Circle

A young girl in New York City helps a hungry man pay for food at a city food cart � and is later rewarded by karma when a handsome guy pays for her lunch and the two share a connection. Movie based on true story.

By Pauline Gefin

A la Puta Strasse 2ndo Acto

A la Puta Strasse 2ndo Acto

Clip del documental " A la puta strasse. 2� Acto" dirigit per Anna Cervera i produ�t per De Verit� Produccions, sl.

By Anna Cervera

Nan Miyongsaga Aniya

Nan Miyongsaga Aniya

A man working at the death experience service helps an old woman and her grandson to go through unusual experience.

By Chae Han-young

Thornblood (La Menace d'une Rose)

Thornblood (La Menace d'une Rose)

This a non profit indy fan film - Bond, spy for the queen, is a man like others sometimes. Between personal and professional life, 007 must have to be on the look-out. Without coverage, he will have to be prudent in front of the mysterious killer ...

By Thomas Lhermitte

LOTTO

A car washer who has big dreams of being successful person but require an inspiration ... will his case inspire others?

By Firas Sameer

�Passion and Virtue� is an adaptation based on Gustave Flaubert�s Passion et Vertu which tells the story of Mazza, a married middle-aged woman who is acquainted with Ernest, a charming young chemist, whose biggest amusement is to seduce married women ...

By Barbara Vida

Al Awda

The main character the film suffers of loneliness and sadness after losing the one she loved also she feels helplessness and oppression so that decides to go back

By Neveen Shalaby

Forest of Copper Columns

Forest of Copper Columns

In the forest of Copper Columns (the sixth level of hell according to Chinese superstition), a man performs a ritual of spiritual cleansing.

My Unknown History

My Unknown History

Two young brother steal their father�s car to go on a no-return road trip. After three years the elder brother comes back alone to tell father and us that what happened. http://pezhmannmokary.tumblr.com/

By Pezhmann Mokary

Penitent

After serving a prison sentence for dangerous driving resulting in death, Jason Buckley is having trouble adapting to life again and cannot forgive himself for causing the death of an innocent.

By Brian Stynes

Babylon What Then?

Babylon What Then?

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

Another Song About the Sea

Another Song About the Sea

Explores the stalled domestic relationship of a dysfunctional couple. The characters' descent into the watery abyss becomes a metaphor for examining their relationship darkened by deep emotional turmoil.

By Jeremy Bessoff

Valentina

A woman. A man. A dog. Fate. https://www.facebook.com/valentinacortometraje

By Mois�s Romera P�rez

Balance ??????

An animated story about soldiers who give their lives so the people of the city may live in peace.

By Barzan Rostami

Four Chilean transgender people talk about their life experiences in a country that does not have a place for them.

By Felipe Garrido

Homeless

A poem-based short film about Homelessness. The homeless man named Paul is wandering into a big and rich city while he is trying to find out a place to call "home".

By Vladimir Nicolas

Unspoken

Some relationships are beyond words... Follow this moving visual and aural journey, recounting memories and emotions as the audience is given a painfully intimate view of love in the modern era.

Pinch Me Jesus!

Pinch Me Jesus!

A "1991" ad for TV Evangelist Rev. Marion Dufresne's best selling album. Director & Editor: James Scott

By EL Pobre Profe

Kaleh And Mbaki (Kaleh At Mbaki)

Kaleh And Mbaki (Kaleh At Mbaki)

A very hungry Hornbill bugs his busy master, the Shaman, to feed him. When it is ignored, the Hornbill resorts to other ways of catching it's master's attention but things take a turn for the worse.

By Dennis Sebastian

Korean Song

An Ra Chung is wife, mother, devoted Christian and teacher of singing during the day. Her passion is lyrical singing. She arrived from South Korean and has lived with her family in Argentina for more than 30 years, in the Buenos Aires� Korean nei ...

By Yael Tujsnaider

Since 2002

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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[ 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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