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The Good Son (Omo Dada)

The Good Son (Omo Dada)

Kunle is the conventional Nigerian son: respectful, dutiful, the pride of his family. However, during an intimate, traditional family gathering, he is forced to address a secret he has harbored, one that will undoubtedly have a profound, life-changin ...

By Tomisin Adepeju

60 Spins Around The Sun

60 Spins Around The Sun

Laura Kightlinger's brilliant documentary about Randy Credico.

Yorozuya Detective Story

Yorozuya Detective Story

Why keep your dull job when you can be a detective poking Japanese suburbia in its surreal underbelly.

By Touji Sawamura

October 2019

Rotación 206

Do we all have the same right to choose where in the world we want to live? Nadia, Spanish contemporary dancer, had to look outside of Spain for her professional development. She dances leaning on a crutch as a result of a traffic accident. B. Boy ...

By Hugo Mata Parducci

Pinch Me Jesus!

Pinch Me Jesus!

A "1991" ad for TV Evangelist Rev. Marion Dufresne's best selling album. Director & Editor: James Scott

By EL Pobre Profe

The Art of the Gag - Buster Keaton

The Art of the Gag - Buster Keaton

Before Edgar Wright and Wes Anderson, before Chuck Jones and Jackie Chan, there was Buster Keaton, one of the founding fathers of visual comedy. (Every Frame a Painting)

By EL Pobre Profe

Escribir es reescribir

Escribir es reescribir

Un guionista novel se enfrenta a la reescritura más difícil de su corta carrera. el tiempo juega en su contra.

By Luis Francisco Pérez

Culpa

An individual realizes that guilt feels like a heavy look upon himself. Short animated with the stop motion technique .

By Jan Darío Rodríguez S.

In Debt We Art

A documentary about what makes the Romanian Independent theatre creators get up in the morning in today's global context, all wrapped around the thin red line of debt.

Between the waves

Between the waves

In DRC Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), the war rages to Goma, between the rebels of the M23 and the FARDC. Hundreds of thousand refugees are moved on the border of Rwanda. Kabila reigns with an iron hand over a country in the immense min ...

By Rémi Briand

Sourdough

2014/USA/NR/10 min. "Sourdough," is a vernacular term originating in Alaska/Yukon Territory used to identify someone who has become grizzled by their time in the wilderness, with roots in the early northern gold rush culture. Compiling home v ...

By Kirk Rasmussen

La Gran Pelea

Helen is facing the toughest fight of her life: against her sister Maria.

Stoned Ape Theory

Stoned Ape Theory

Animation by Will Carsola of daybyday for the Comedy Central pilot THUNDERBRAIN.

Cafe Journal

Cafe Journal is a no-budget film that centers its story on Tudor, a young guy who is photophobic and insomniac, receives an unexpected nocturnal visit which will lead him to a mysterious cafe that exists only during nighttime.

By Ciprian Brasoveanu

Bunny, Getting to Know Dad

Bunny, Getting to Know Dad

A very strict powerful father provides an oppressive environment for the daughter he raises alone. His little girl needs to hide her moments of dreaming and imagination. One days he finds a mysterious key and discovers a secret. Perhaps her father is ...

By Tatiana Skorlupkina

God's Lamb

For Zakaria (11), son of an Islamic butcher, this year's Feast of Sacrifice will be the first one without his mother. Things get messed up when his mentally disabled brother accidentally gets attached to the lamb intended for the same Feast...

By Kees-Jan Mulder

Purple Skies

‘Purple Skies’, a feature documentary by award winning filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan, weaves together heartrending stories of LBT people victimized and subjugated by the law, the family & society, as well as hopeful stories of youngsters who have come o ...

By Sridhar Rangayan

The Bridge

It's a documentary about the cross cultural conflicts between Arabs and Americans and the role of media in creating this image and stereotypes.

The Observation Level

The Observation Level

A young woman named Adrianna is sent on a mission by a mysterious stranger. The task will require all of her cunning and willpower, as she is about to discover that everything is a test...

Somewhere Far

In a world where women often deal with countless social inhibitions that hold them back from their dreams and desires, a boy recalls what he and his girl went through to be together. The film is a surrealistic view of how they find strength to break ...

By Jayesh Pillai

Guardian Angel

One day, as Mila and her girlfriend, Erin, are returning to their home, Mila catches a glimpse of Violet, a dark but familiar stranger, in her car's rear view mirror. Like a resentful child, Mila tries to ignore Violet in the hope that she will leave ...

By Eileen Slavin

The Fear Inside

The Fear Inside

An agoraphobic woman encounters unexplained events in her home and wrestles with whether her need to escape them outweighs her paralyzing fear.

By Rick Hamilton

Michel (Michel)

Michel (Michel)

In order to financially subsist, Michel, a cranky old man, is forced to share his home with Pierre, a young student who finds it difficult living with an intrusive elderly person. In the hopes of securing an intimate dinner at home with his girlfrien ...

By Romain Richard

Facing off

A woman decides to step into the cosmetic surgery maelstrom to give her life a radical change. Once the change is completed she is even unhappier than before. Life will surprisingly rush to the aid of her...

By Maria Di Razza

Pig Blood Vampire

Pig Blood Vampire

A face blind man is accused of killing a pig.

By Nick Josephs

One love, two lives (Um amor duas vidas)

One love, two lives (Um amor duas vidas)

The year is 1914. In a distant village, Henry and Lana were happy, and they cultivate love and art. But what they could not imagine is that World War I would change their lives completely.

By Flávio Carnielli

Ulises

Ulises is a young man who disappears bodies. He wants to take his mother to Alaska, but she is very ill. Ulises starts to decompose physically, mentally and spiritually. The time and the earthworms destroy it all.

By Abel Francisco Amador Alcalá

Since 2002

Building bridges based on the
belief that film becomes art
only when its materials are as
inexpensive as pencil & paper

Cine Pobre is the 100%
cartel-free intersection of
culture and capabilities
[ Call for entries 2020 ]

NOTABLES
UberLand
La Trampa
Zaki y Zene
Strictly Professional
Start Up a War
The Caramel Corn Riot
The Glass Hedgehog
I Hate Being Black
The Servant
Young Syrian Lenses
Brazil is Not Copacabana
Forest of Copper Columns
About Killing The Pig
Lions & Guépards
Morgana

THE LAS PALMITAS EDITION
XVIII Cine Pobre FF 2020 animation / documentary / experimental / music / african / underground / road trip

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