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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

How To Use Film Titles Creatively

How To Use Film Titles Creatively

Nerdwriter essay about just that.

By EL Pobre Profe

The Main Event...in America

The Main Event...in America

A modern-day gladiator battles in the ring against world-class opponents and outside the ring against his true nature, but even after killing a man in front of a national audience, he realizes that his toughest opponent all along has been his conscie ...

By Antwan Mcknight

Kampiringisa: a childhood behind bars

Kampiringisa: a childhood behind bars

This is the story of Kampiringisa, a centre meant for children in conflict with the law, that has also become a dumping ground for the street children of Kampala. Treated like criminals and with little hope for a future, these children are condemned ...

By William Ek-Uvelius

Die Verblassten

Die Verblassten

WWII is in the last four months, and the Nazi's are desperate to win the war. The SS science division is working on a project codenamed "Nachtwache", and Dr. Hindrick is the man on deck. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4346376/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1

By Gabriel Kissinger

Piggy Bank of Dreams (Sapnon Ka Gullak)

Piggy Bank of Dreams (Sapnon Ka Gullak)

They are all good people. Amir is a helper at a shack selling chai (tea). He aspires to buy a bike. Ammi is a household wife. She works as a maid at several places. The ideal mother who wants nothing more than happiness for her family. Abbu is a form ...

By Siddhant Paul

Under The Sheets

Under The Sheets

A documentary that explores sexual assistance for disabled people throughout the lives of Max Ulivieri and his wife Enza in their project to legalize and create the first institute to prepare the first generation of sexual assistance in Italy. http:/ ...

By Johan Florez

The Caller

Karan Malhotra, a very reserved guy, staying in mumbai, gets a call in the middle of the night. The unknown caller knows everything about Karan, and wants to play a dangerous Game. Who is he? Can Karan unfold the mystery?

By Yogesh Sharma

Naleena

Naleena is an Indian transgender and according the culture of his country she belongs to the so-called "third sex," neither man nor woman. As an offering to the Goddess Kali, the Indian transgenders, called Hijras, undergo the ritual emasculation, c ...

By Luigi Storto

Rio de Janeiro. While the world over turns to the World Cup and to its controversies, a country's passion for its national team plays as the background to a family's journey. Between religious faith and that placed in football, Detinha, Miramar, Cris ...

By StefanoBertolino

But what was she wearing?

But what was she wearing?

"On one hand you have the law in India that empowers female employees & explicitly states that their safety is the responsibility of the employer, on the other hand you have the way the world really works." In the year 1992 Bhanwari Devi, an Ind ...

By Vaishnavi Sundar

Marcatti

A little about Francisco Marcatti Jr, the most awarded Brazilian underground comics.

By Arthur B. Senra

PRO-CAN (ibalizm)

PRO-CAN (ibalizm)

Mindless cannibals take over Montr�al after a new drug called PRO-CAN is introduced to the city's streets

By Keenan Poloncsak

They blinded those who took a chance. But there are still millions of eyes that see. GEZ? is probably one of the most widely publicized protests in history� Each eye was like a recording device; each phone, a camera� Gezi was, in a way, the tim ...

By Can D�ndar

Crime Boss

Local crime boss, Frank, pays a visit to the mother of a young man who stole drugs from him. Frank�s ill thought out visit to inform the woman that when caught, her son face�s serious retribution, goes terribly wrong when Mairead realizes that she c ...

By Brian Stynes

Theodoros Papayannis: Epistrofi sto Elliniko

Theodoros Papayannis: Epistrofi sto Elliniko

The sculptor Theodoros Papayannis gathers friends, collaborators and apprentices in his birthplace, the village Elliniko in Epirus, Greece, and creates a route of sculptures from the village�s entry towards the historical monastery of Tsouka. The scu ...

By Panayotis Kravvaris

There's Always Tomorrow

There's Always Tomorrow

"Pularum Iniyum Naalekal" /revolves around ex-lovers Anthony & Durga, who are now happily settled in their respective marriages. The two have a chance meeting after a gap of eight years, a meeting that unexpectedly turns into one that of self-discove ...

By Shilpa Krishnan Shukla

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 ...

Boo Demon vs La Cerveza de La Muerte

Boo Demon vs La Cerveza de La Muerte

Beer of Death > Full Movie by Sean Brown, a Portland OR filmmaker par excellence

Ti Laurent

The story of a wayward young man struggling across an indifferent landscape in search of food and shelter. He follows his hunger through debris and drifters into the arms of various masters. Each one of them possesses different qualities of deceitful ...

By John Rasmussen

How to make a 3-minute movie that has no theme?

By Jean David IZAMBARD

It Was All So Wonderful

It Was All So Wonderful

Feminist painter or traditional housewife? Displaced and isolated, a life of delicate rebellion.

By Kenneth J Harvey

The Tellers

#1 and #2 are searching for their magnum opus, the one story that will bring them clarity, purpose. When they struggle to find inspiration in our world, they are ripped from it. Working together, they tease, test and tug each other to the far reaches ...

By Grace Cleere

EVA

Do you know that real vampires live among us? It is fact here in the forgotten corners of pre- So do some of legendary inventor Nikolai Tesla's descendants... and his genius lives in one of them: homeless teen waif EVA. Do you like sci-fi movies ...

A British film crew travel to Berlin to document the life of the world's worst actress.

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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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