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Br�si �lason
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Andres Villasenor
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Bartosz Sikorski
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Santi Planet
Hemantkumar Mahale
Ulysse Dikoum� Alechinsky
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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

asuntos domesticos

asuntos domesticos

Luna llena de Abril, viernes por la noche. Unos tacones resuenan en una calle vac�a. �gata huye de su pasado para encontrarse de lleno con su futuro. Los esp�ritus noct�mbulos se acaban encontrando, pero no siempre para bien.

By alexia mui�os ruiz

Madrid, above the Moon

Madrid, above the Moon

Unos d�as de verano en la vida de un fot�grafo madrile�o al que no le va muy bien. Le prestan una casa para que la cuide y �l aprovecha para hacerse pasar por el due�o de la casa y ligar con algunas turistas.

By Miguel Santesmases

Famous James

We follow James as he cares for his mother, fights with his sister, and alienates everyone around him. He is only 33 and already jaded about most things in his life; however, he has convinced himself that there's no other way to be. Anyone around him ...

Jilu Gu Tao : Dongri Jishi

Jilu Gu Tao : Dongri Jishi

Gu Tao, a Chinese independent documentary filmmaker is going to Qinghai (Tibetan border) to shoot a documentary about the ethnic minorities of this region but this is not a documentary only about filmmaking...

By Antoine Herv�

A Introspective young woman must face an old familiar face at a reunion with friends.

Wake of Vultures

Wake of Vultures

David Spears' career as a director is failing, his marriage crumbling, and with his back up against the wall he hosts a dinner party in hopes of financing his next project. A coterie of socialites gather around the table and David's future begins to ...

By Savvas Thomas Yiannoulou

The Saint of the burning waters

The Saint of the burning waters

Since various decades, the local population denounce the decay of the Bodocong�'s dam, located in Campina Grande (Paraiba, Brazil). Through this film we show a part of this struggle, as well as its reasons. Please note that one month after the end of th ...

By Riccardo Migliore

A Picture and a Frame

A Picture and a Frame

The film is about a simple photographer who works in Alexandria's public gardens, many years passed before he discovers that he didn't have his simplest rights, so he decided to go find it!

By Mohamed Saadoun

NORMALIDAD

Norma es una estudiante universitaria, militante y defensora de las luchas sociales. Francisco es un joven bachiller que quiere entrar a la universidad pero su sue�o se ve frustrado al no pasar y ser reclutado por el ej�rcito para cumplir el servicio ...

By Hugo Andres Quintero Rivera

LO

The Cambodia counts 15 million inhabitants, among whom more than 10 millions live in rural areas. No more than 7 millions of these villagers have any access to the drinking water, and have other choice than to consume the water of rivers or puddles. ...

By R�mi Briand

ESCAPES

After China's father death, China gets involved in a trip which will help her to find the human being's essence. A travel in which she will discover that running away is not the way http://huidasmovie.wordpress.com/

By mercedes gaspar

Deep Dance

A world without light, a world dominated by darkness and threatening silence. The deep sea. Driven by their instincts, we pursue two contradictory characters and witness a struggle for life and death. We become victims of the illusion of light. http: ...

By Marco Erbrich

Origen de una Leyenda

Origen de una Leyenda

A principios del siglo XX en un peque�o pueblo de Almer�a ocurri� un macabro suceso, que a d�a de hoy se sigue contando generaci�n tras generaci�n en forma de leyenda. Muchos conocen la Leyenda pero no la verdadera historia...

By Rocio Montes

Mermaid

A Persian transgender person tries to find their footing in society.

By Saber Mostafapour

SUGAR

A couple walk through the streets in Paris in the evening. They enter a caf�. There, the young woman recognizes an older lady unwrapping a sugar cube. Because of this, she remembers, how she collected sugar cubes at home in Sarajevo. But then, the war ...

By Oliver Langewitz

Najibeh

An impoverished old religious woman enlists a friend to help her commit a crime in order to go to prison.

By Mostafa Gandomkar

The Serbian Lawyer

The Serbian Lawyer

Taking place over the 4 years of the Karadzic trial, the film follows Marko's journey from an idealistic young lawyer to a doubt-ridden veteran. As Marko comes face to face with people who have lost family and friends during the war, he can no longer ...

By Eva Schellenbeck

Gage

In 1848, Phineas Gage suffers an unspeakable brain injury when a tamping rod plunges through his skull, causing dramatic shifts in his personality.

By Keith Wilhelm Kopp

The last departure

The last departure

The film tells a story of the women, through the relationship between two women and a child. How many Neapolitans in the 80s spent their holidays in places near a recreation area. The last day of vacation and 'joint, the feelings are not revealed thr ...

By Chiara Minopoli

Prisoners of Time

Prisoners of Time

Can a broken heart transcend the limits of the mind to find what it most desires? That is the question haunting war correspondent Willis James after a grenade blast leaves him caught somewhere between heaven and hell. Wounded in body and in spirit ...

24K All You Need Is Gold

24K All You Need Is Gold

We are a sadly poor group of friends that have worked for years in this industry and have faild one after another. Our goal with this crazy project was to demonstrate that we can do art through mainstream. With a very low budjet (it doesent look like ...

Suicide or Lulu and Me in a World Made for Two

Suicide or Lulu and Me in a World Made for Two

Jorge has a camera that can duplicate and preserve reality, and a pair of glasses that can inject memories into the viewer's mind.

By Christian Carroll

SPIRAL

A young actor in a downward spiral of self-destruction decides that playing the lead in his autobio-fiction film is the only way to exorcise his demons.

By Sofiene Mamdi

To and fro/circuit dialogue/default

To and fro/circuit dialogue/default

To and fro/circuit dialogue/default is a film that explores the poetics contained within mundane and everyday experiences, through the use of found music. The composition is scored by the position of the passing footfalls, as pedestrians travel to an ...

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