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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

Be Happy

Alejandra, a journalist student, decides to spend the weekend at his father�s house to study and relax. There she discovers that his father is not loving and caring person who always thought. He is actually a dangerous young girls murderer. The worst ...

By Alicia Albares

sendai

Ensayo experimental sobre las trag�dias, el hombre y su lucha para permanecer en el mundo, inspirado en Sendai, ciudad mas afectada por lo terremoto de magnitud 9.0 en Japan. Las imagenes del Tsunami que sigui� al tremblor aterrorizaran el mundo. Sin dial ...

By claudia nunes

Parallel World

A young man with appendicitis wakes up after the surgery to find his leg has ben amputated as a terrorist walks into his room and decides to execute him.

By Tareq Baddar

il demone di mezzogiorno

il demone di mezzogiorno

In this age that wildly devoures everything, IL DEMONE DI MEZZOGIORNO offers to the public a non-place to let go, breathe deep, do not expect or be forced to figure it all out. Dream images, sudden awakenings, reality, flashes of adrenaline, voices t ...

By stella sollai

Station

A young Armenian woman tries to escape her bleak life.

By Stepan Sragsyan

For The Evening

For The Evening

A young man knocks on a rich young lady's door one evening claiming to be an escort hired for her. After initially sending him away, she invites him back to cook dinner for her - as the evening progresses they speak and fall in love. However after sp ...

By David Wayman

Ancient Belarusian Folk Songs

Ancient Belarusian Folk Songs

A rare look into the distant world of Belarusian folks songs.

By Volya Dzemka

I, the WORST of ALL

I, the WORST of ALL

When a woman tries to break up with her boyfriend of five years she finds that the consequences are unpredictable. http://www.imperatorpictures.com

By Francisco Lupini Basagoiti

Kar Bhalaa (Do Good)

Kar Bhalaa (Do Good)

About 'Kar Bhalaa' ('Do Good') This bilingual (Hindi-Tamil) student short film 'Kar Bhalaa' written and directed by Biswanath Rath is based on a true story in Chennai. Meaning of �Kar Bhalaa� in English is �Do Good�. Kar Bhalaa - Synopsis Ab ...

By Biswanath Rath

In-Between

A short documentary about complex Caribbean identity, explored trough art and literature. Young student Joshua Vasilda tries to understand the term �ones-in-between�, used to describe writers and artists who have to deal with diverse cultural shifts ...

By Maaki Nurmeots

La ladrona de sombras

La ladrona de sombras

A 9 years old girl who spends most of her time playing with the shadows growing on the town's wall. After developing a habit, she develops a particular skill that allows her to take over people's talents throughout them.

By Trotsky Vargas

KILLIES

Killies is a new concept of ultra-violent entertainment. Muppet-face is the author and host of this gruesome show. He thoroughly prepared everything to make his work an unforgettable one. A well thought-out plan containing all the necessary ingredi ...

Bird's Flight

An Israeli acrobat is caught between the incompatible worlds of her family's religion and the spoils of bohemian freedom.

By Tal Koushner

The Agent

In THE AGENT, Don Reynolds must act out the demise written for him... or fight for his soul. THE AGENT is brought to you by the Telly and Emmy award-winning team based in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina: Director and Producer ROB UNDERHILL and Cine ...

By Rob Underhill

For My Children

For My Children

This documentary follows Jerzy Donus who in 2009 was manipulated out of his children ?s life as father for the children he loves and cares for. The worries and stress in the struggle for the children, gave him a diagnosis of deadly cancer. In spring ...

Batgirl Rises

A young determined librarian desperately seeks the truth after her brothers disappearance with a mysterious woman.

By Vincent Tran

Gil viveu em seu templo silencioso tudo o que p�de.

By Felipe Camilo

Dementia

Dementia portrays the experiences of a young man, confined to the four walls of a house, succumbing to madness. In a claustrophobic environment, lost in time, the young man gradually loses his sanity, becoming an element of that dark space.

By Rafael Almeida

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 ...

Burp! Pepsi v Coke in the Ice Cold War

Burp! Pepsi v Coke in the Ice Cold War

There's something good-natured about the taste of coke - brings out the goodness in people http://johnpilger.com/videos/burp-pepsi-v-coke-in-the-ice-cold-war

By ideólogo monofóbico

Temet Nosce - Change can only begin with yourself

Temet Nosce - Change can only begin with yourself

24 filmmakers from 16 different countries, making one music video. They all got the same lyric, interpreted it, filmed their meaning behind the song, in their own country, and sent it to the editor, so it could end up as an different and unique musi ...

A Venue for the End of the World

A Venue for the End of the World

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern entertainers, a filmmaker investigates the dangers of audience manipulation and leader worship.

By Aidan Prewett

METAL LASER CITY

METAL LASER CITY

A city burns down. It rebuilds itself as if by an invisible hand and is finally obliterated in a cosmic crash.... A nightmarish cine poem on 16mm film about an apocalyptic city and it's bizarre and tragic inhabitants. (All you see is as it was shot a ...

By Philipp Ramspeck

As Rio de Janeiro prepared to host Brazil's World Cup and Olympics an urban Indigenous community was forcefully evicted and their human rights were suspended.

By Jason O'Hara

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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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