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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

A Graduate

Struggling to find work after University, A graduate takes matters into his own hands.

By Veemsen Lama

Dead Dogs

ARENA

Eons ago, societies built centers of power inside stone circles. Centuries later, cities were enclosed within large stone walls. In contemporary, wall-less cities, we still feel the concentrated energy of colliding human wills, loves, hopes, and fear ...

By Natalie Metzger

Momento

a story about love, a tale of terror.

By Daniel Amaya Llamas

My Brave Young Man

My Brave Young Man

"My Brave Young Man� is a film about a little boy who discovers the boundaries of his imaginary world. A seemingly ordinary quest for a new toy takes a different turn when we discover what that toy actually means to him.

Restoring Quetzalcoatl

Restoring Quetzalcoatl

After 40 years, the original artists of the Chicano Park murals, through a grant from Caltrans received the opportunity to re-invigorate the aging murals with new techniques, fresh ideas, and seasoned talent. The documentary delves into the original ...

By Horacio Jones

Mayo

This story introduces us to Consuelo Venancio; mother, grandmother and loves from home. She is fighting a hard work in community, maintain latent traditions that were inherited, all within the context preparation of ceremonial tortillas.

By Diego Iv�n Andrade Anguiano

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

Chhau nach, on the road to Jharkhand

Chhau nach, on the road to Jharkhand

In March 2015 a small cinematographic troupe leaves Italy for India to travel for a month throughout the tribal areas of West Bengal and Jharkhand for an artistic and anthropological research about a traditional dance called Purulia Chhau. The result ...

By Antonella Sabatino

Belgrade in white

Belgrade in white

Our beutiful Belgrade covered by snow Lady in whhite

By Jelena Zlatkovic Velickovic

Raise My Hands

On Nelson Mandela's birthday, photographer Scott McDermott captured famous faces � e.g. Clint Eastwood, Robert DeNiro, Forest Whitaker and Morgan Freeman - raising hands to pledge to improve their planet. In Kelly's film, writer Elliot Kotek ponders ...

By Elliot Kotek

EMPATHY

It is a story about a Man who going to sell his KIDNEY for His Mentally Challenged Son on free Classified website.

By PRASHANT PANDE

The Shattered Mind

The Shattered Mind

The film tells a story about a misplaced teenager who is trying to find herself in a self-respecting Deaf family and overcoming an unusual psychological and neurological conditions. Ultimately, her biggest battle is in dealing with recurring nightmar ...

By Ann Marie Bryan

Vulnerables

Two losers find themselves in the middle of the night. At this time nothing would be the same

By Iv�n L�pez Gonz�lez

Sa-mak Han Ga-un-de-seo

Sa-mak Han Ga-un-de-seo

Dawn, a man comes to the construction site to bury somethings. Then he runs into a watchman who asks him to find Jong-il and his mom.

By Chae Han-young

Escape Velocity

Escape Velocity

A young boy struggles to find beauty in the world around him. From pollution, to landfills, to grey skies and alleyways covered in graffiti, the Earth is ugly in the eyes of this boy. He wants to escape from Earth and travel to the far reaches of the ...

By James Tralie

The Diary of Dreams

The Diary of Dreams

The movie starts with the narration of Keit (Keitlin Sh�ngjergji). She and Anna (Altea Mukaj) are Rachel's (Klesta Rapaj) best friends since childhood. During an April day Rachel is found dead in the school toilets reported to have committed suicide. K ...

1234

One night, a man saw wonder scene during the snooze. If In the dream, anything is free,and anything can happen. http://www.tuzumiya.com

By Shiro Ichige

YanYuan

ZHAO has been visiting Chinese brothels on the Lower East Side for many years, but one girl stands out to him in particular. We follow Zhao in his struggle to accept his love for her and ultimately help her escape prostitution, or return to the comfo ...

By Nueraili Maimaitimusha

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A man is searching for the last picture of his life.

By Christoph Rahm

Colourless

Its a film depicting the discrimination people suffer from, the discrimination of religion. It depicts consumerism and hypocrisy of a common man. The film focuses how water, a colourless element, unites people from two religion and brings back the co ...

By Anirban Karmakar

DIY LED Ring Light - Tira LED

DIY LED Ring Light - Tira LED

99 LED Light Strip : 35 USD<br /> Battery 12V: 1 USD<br /> <br /> www.enriquerodben.com<br /> @enrique_rodben

By EL Pobre Profe

Proof that the exchange between Cuba and Africa did not end with the Transatlantic slave trade.

By Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi

Township Lessons from the Cape of Good Hope (Kapstadt 20 Jahre nach der Apartheid)

Township Lessons from the Cape of Good Hope (Kapstadt 20 Jahre nach de

This documentary tells the story of people living in the Cape Flats area outside of Cape Town, South Africa 20 years after Apartheid. How do township residents in slums cope with gangs and poverty in a country still very much struggling with racism, ...

By Michael Fischer

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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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