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Mahtab Mansour & Alex
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Fatoumata Coulibaly
Br�si �lason
Frank Erftemeier
Andres Villasenor
Cortese, Fenucci & Ve
Marta Koszowy
Bartosz Sikorski
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Santi Planet
Hemantkumar Mahale
Ulysse Dikoum� Alechinsky
Jos� Luis Ducid
Francisco Varvar�
Sylwia Kubus
Julian Reboratti
Afshin Eisaei
Dash Kolos

CABBAGE

Vegetables are defined by the slowness of their movement. Their metabolism incorporates water and soil nutrients from dark roots through photosynthesis. Sit back and watch.

By ideólogo monofóbico

Pact of Tears

A man and a woman living on the verge of death amidst Mexico's eternal violence meet in a motel room to seal a pact of tears.

By Jose Luis Luna

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

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

By EL Pobre Profe

July 2024

Un Condor

Sergio Contreras was born into a rich family, his mother was the maid. Passing from a life in which he was kept secret, to a life in poverty, he had to make his own life. He put himself in exile in November 1973, a few months after Pinochet overthrew ...

By Yiannis Kolozis

5 to 12

5 to 12 tells the story of friends Rinus Jossee and Kees Kortleve and their life and death challenges they face as older athletes in their 70-ties. Europe is getting older, people above 65 form the fastest growing population segment. This film exp ...

Pinte es una peque�a localidad rural ubicada en el norte de Chile, un lugar habitado por personas sencillas, poseedoras de valiosas tradiciones culturales y con un profundo conocimiento del territorio en que viven, el que lamentablemente est� a punto de d ...

By V�ctor Cabrera / Cristian Caradeuc

A battered wife seeks to save herself and her daughter. Emmur�e dans son silence et rong�e par les violences conjugales, une femme pousse � chercher � sauver sa peau et celle de sa fille.

By Ngulungu King Pierre

L'imbarcadero

In a place of mountains, somewhere in Italy, Mark is making a trip. He must go beyond the Great Lake, the center of the mountain, because he knows of having to meet someone and give him something. http://imbarcadero.biafora.it

By Marco Caputo

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

Velamientos

La lengua en la que escribe Waman Puma est� plagada de t�rminos y giros del habla oral en quichua, de canciones Jayllis en Aymar� y de nociones como el "Mundo al Rev�s", que derivaban de la experiencia catacl�smica de la conquista y de la colonizaci�n. S.R. Cusic ...

By claudia araya l�pez

Desire For Beauty

Desire For Beauty

The first ever Polish documentary on the issues of beauty and self-perception. It follows the winding journeys of four people who turn to plastic surgery as the last resort in their search for perfection. Aside from the obvious dilemmas, Desire for B ...

By Miguel Gaudencio

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

Patricio

Surreal comedy that explores the different levels of irony and sarcasm. It is also a fast and concise drawing of the tricks used by human ingenuity to survive before the loneliness and emptiness.

By Alberto Mart�n-Arag�n

East Side Story (Where Dreams Become Nightmares)

East Side Story (Where Dreams Become Nightmares)

In 2012 Moe Money and DJ Big Stew shocked the hip hop world with their movie producing debut of �Somebody Got To Die�. The film was an instant success and was listed as the #1 underground film by Don Diva Magazine. In April, of 2015 they will be rele ...

By kevin stewart

The Love Archive

The Love Archive

Ofir and Tomer want to become parents. Before moving in into a new flat, Ofir digitizes letters and photos from his past loves in order to leave his past behind.

By Ofir Feldman

BACKROAD

"I don't like here." "Why don't you like?" Mei is a junior high student. She decides to look for the answer.

In Mexico the problem is not that women are different but the inequities their being different creates.

By Cortese, Fenucci & Vettese

Black Limpid

A panorama about the water polluted from rivers that cross the city of Rio de Janeiro with residents who live near these places. Black Limpid mixes fiction with reality, making a metaphor of man's creation with the importance of water.

By Eduardo Boone

Made in Iraq

A young guy opens his eyes to find himself lonely in an unknown place�Does not remember where he was, or who brought him here, and who is he exactly� He finds a recorded cassette in his bag that contains his diaries, so he tries to start searching ab ...

Catherine and atoms of a clueless soul

Catherine and atoms of a clueless soul

N� Visa: 141.449 Catherine, a 17 years old woman, extremely shy, meets Melanie. They quickly become friends. Catherine falls in love with Thierry, a young man with whom she will live a passion during a few months before she lost him of sight. Has h ...

By Alix VERONEZE

Naked Under The Leather

Naked Under The Leather

She protects her flesh but the leather is peelling off.

The Visit

The brief visit in her father's nursing home turns into a journey through the narrow corridors of society.

By Inbar Horesh

Love Like This

If you had the opportunity to have a love thet fit you perfectly. It didn't come the way you thought it would come or who you thought it would be from ....would you keep it? And if you kept it to what extent would you go to defend it

By NeVaughn Brown

Pintu (Behind the Door)

Pintu (Behind the Door)

A man chocked on his meal and wakes up in a office ready to be interviewed by someone who decides his fate.

By Ryan monoarfa

Lived

A ghost travels throughout England talking to other ghosts about their lives.

By Denis O'Rourke

Stifle

The daily commute, nearly home, nearly, Little did she know that she would need all her wits to make it. http://www.kerbute.com

By John Hennessy

Suhani

The world is big. Love is bigger.

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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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