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Arturo López
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Jean Apa
Heloisa Machado
Francisco Tomás Sanchez
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Dani Feixas
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Orangel Lugo
Rodrigo Sena
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Eloy Gurucharri
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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.

Once a Fury

In the 1970s a notorious lesbian separatist collective published a national newspaper and planned to seize state power.

By Jacqueline Rhodes

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

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

By EL Pobre Profe

June 2025

MDMA Sasha Shulgin Creator of Ecstasy

MDMA Sasha Shulgin Creator of Ecstasy

A documentary about Dr. Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, the rogue chemist who discovered the effects of MDMA (aka Ecstasy) and over 200 other mind-altering drugs. Shulgin's alchemy has earned him the title "The Godfather of Psychedelics," and a reputation ...

By ideólogo monofóbico

Jalila ?????

It could be just another film about a woman, or a film about �the woman�, the ones we would see in our everyday lives. Jalila goes beyond depicting Syrian women involved in the uprising but rather brings a different perspective on women in a crisis ...

Monkaa

Monkaa is a blue furred, pink faced monkey who consumes a crystallized meteorite, making Monkaa invincibly strong and too hot to handle. Exploring his superpower Monkaa zooms into an unexplored universe.

By Niyal Parmar

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

By Nathan Le Graciet

Quivera

Looking for a sign of civilization after their car breaks down, Colin and June go searching for help. Hearing what sounds like a freeway on the other side of the woods, the couple goes further into the woods. In the process, they discover a cabin, wh ...

By Kevin Kisling

we are in it

We are in it features visceral scenes from the everyday lives of Karla, Serges, Hussein, Nancy and Tutu. For all of them, Houston is their common space of struggle, pleasure, and shelter. For them, Houston is a second, third or even fourth city of re ...

By Yehuda Sharim

A long night

Within wars and revolutions many people become victims and may heroes, names arise, but sadness, sorrow and disasters become the share of woman. Woman in every case sacrifices but unfortunately her sacrifices are regardless, here I wanted to speak ab ...

By Shamal Sabri

Me gustan los poemas y me gusta la vida

Me gustan los poemas y me gusta la vida

En Managua hay un hospital para ni�os con c�ncer en el que creen que la poes�a ayuda a los peque�os a superar la enfermedad. Todos los martes del a�o el poeta Ernesto Cardenal imparte un taller de poes�a para estos peque�os.

By Daniel Rodr�guez Moya y Ulises J�arez Polanco

TITANS

TITANS tells the story of two boys, Antoine, a condescending show-off, and Alexis, an introverted kid. They will share a few days experience of growing up together, biking in desolated rural scenery. Antoine, impulsive and ambivalent, slowly transfor ...

By Damien Gurzynski

Rebel Child

When a young boy witnesses a tragedy by the hands of soldiers he is coerced into joining the rebels.

La joven Ch�a vuelve a su aldea y se reencuentra con parientes y amigos: el abuelo Claudio Rojo, el t�o "Chencho", el escritor Julio Carrillo, etc. y con ellos conoce relatos sobre "los encantos", -esp�ritus de las lagunas- y otras creencias de origen ind�ge ...

By Wilmer D�az Soto

Spitifire: Back to zero

Spitifire: Back to zero

The amazing story of Spitfire, maybe the most important Greek heavy metal band, whose singer was heavily injured in a car accident, just after having finished the recordings of their first album. For the first time, after 25 years, the band�s members ...

By Vaggelis Rigas

You're talking to me ?!

You're talking to me ?!

A female cop is being sexually harassed by her colleague. For the last time?

By Isabelle Desalos

The Last Intervention

The Last Intervention

The rebellious daughter (Alyssa Abreu) of divorced Dominican parents discovers her family is having an intervention in her honor in THE LAST INTERVENTION a new comedy from the producing team Rafael Blanco, Giovanny Blanco and Sarah Thorp, director Gi ...

By Giovanny Blanco

Romulo

Two people maintain a relationship on the margins of society.

By Gast�n Volpi

Genius Loci

Franzi got herself involved in an amateurish bank heist by her boyfriend Stefan and her secret lover Peter. When only one of them returns to the getaway car, Franzi takes off in a haste. During her flight she takes refuge in a seemingly abandoned hou ...

By Pascal Griesshammer

A Syrian Story (Une histoire syrienne)

A Syrian Story (Une histoire syrienne)

Jessica, a freelance photographer and a member of 99%Media, decides to leave Montreal and go to Syria, her native country, to cover the conflict that has lasted three years and film the horrors suffered by Syrian people under the regime of Bashar Al ...

By Samer Beyhum

El Cuento

En un mundo y en un tiempo incierto, ya no hay futuro ni para los m�s aptos. Pero una Mujer, un Ni�o y un Viejo encontrar�n entre s� la fuerza humana olvidada, para resistir.

By Claudio Perrin

Luciano Nadalini � diventato fotografo di cronaca nel 1984, da allora ha documentato per l'Unit� gran parte degli eventi successi a Bologna. � accaduto in citt�", attraverso gli scatti e il racconto di chi li ha resi immortali per la memoria storica, riperc ...

By noemi pulvirenti

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

The Invention of the Year 2016

The Invention of the Year 2016

How make a film about time?

We Others

We Others departs from Brazil for a trip throughout Latin America. In this journey, different people, landscapes and memories are interweaving in a subjective collage that raises up questions about our way, our utopias, and above all, our time.

By Marina Dias Weis

BLINDRUNNERS

Two Polish workers get fired in Holland and want to return home to their sick child. Can they resist temptation of earning a lot of money in a dark underworld dominated by criminals, illegal gambling and a dangerous game called �Blindrunning�? Blin ...

Profile Project : Freddy Candia

Freddy Candia is a very helpful man. Low height and great speaker, he�s the master of improvisation, be it on civil construction, mechanics or even at the kitchen, always with a big smile in his face and a ready made gag. He had a troubled childhood, ...

By Lara Jacoski

Since 2002

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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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