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

Tick Tock

Short dystopia with brief mature content about a man in love with a gameshow host.

By Charlie Lightning

Faces of Conflict

Faces of Conflict

A documentary about the experience of photojournalist Alexandro Auler in Kobane, Syria.

By André Auler

Between Seconds

Between Seconds

Two musicians have grown out of sync with their music and themselves.

By Nora Jaenicke

April 2023

Wim Wenders: Painter, Filmmaker

Wim Wenders: Painter, Filmmaker

�The world was such a better world in paintings than in reality.� Growing up in post-war D�sseldorf, it was through paintings that German filmmaker Wim Wenders initially discovered the possibility of a different world. This would later come to define ...

By EL Pobre Profe

Township Lessons from the Cape of Good Hope (Kapstadt 20 Jahre nach der Apartheid)

Township Lessons from the Cape of Good Hope (Kapstadt 20 Jahre nach de

This documentary tells the story of people living in the Cape Flats area outside of Cape Town, South Africa 20 years after Apartheid. How do township residents in slums cope with gangs and poverty in a country still very much struggling with racism, ...

By Michael Fischer

OUTED: THE PAINFULY REALITY

OUTED: THE PAINFULY REALITY

On 25th February 2014, based on no evidence, a Ugandan tabloid published names and photographs of the people they perceived to be the �Top homosexuals� in the country. This outing not only provoked widespread hate messages towards people perceived to ...

By KAMOGA HASSAN

Beat The City

Terrible grief sends a man battling his agoraphobia seeking liberation through spirituality

By Claudinho Andres Gmz

Mr Chavan

A young dedicated home-care aide to an isolated elder man is burdened with an unexpected and lonely responsibility. Originally created for the Asian American Film Lab 72 Hour Shootout under the theme of "A Guest In My Own Country."

By Edward Shieh

A Hardworking Robber

A Hardworking Robber

An Greek Short film that shows the impact of the economic crisis on a robber who has to work in order to get some money instead of stealing

By Michael Felanis

Missing

A dangerous yet remorseful man bleeds to death as he walks through a desert while in pursuit of his kidnapped wife. He will stop at nothing until he finds her, no matter how many men stand in his way.

By Lydelle Jackson

Preserves

A poetic journey into an Ecuadorian rainforest that contains some of the greatest biodiversity on Earth, two uncontacted tribes living in voluntary isolation and 850 million barrels of oil that will ultimately determine its future.

By Anuradha Rana

La Bamba 2: Hell Is A Drag

La Bamba 2: Hell Is A Drag

A failed artist is sucked into Hell and a makes a deal with the devil: rescuing his rock n' roll idol from a band of evil dead musicians in exchange for eternal fame and a one-way ticket back to the land of the living. Queer porn star Jiz Lee stars a ...

Kalil

In the remote mountains of Afghanistan; Gulmir, a poor goat shepherd, constantly approached by members of Al Qaeda who want to recruit his fourteen years old son, receives an unexpected visit from Zahir, an alien who brings with him the promise to he ...

By Paulo A. Zumach

#Confusion

#Confusion is a short movie by Yury Revich. Directed by Wen Liu, Yury Revich, Yuko Ichikawa If you are not perfect, and you know it... but then you meet someone who you think is a perfection for you. Or it might become�just a confusion?

Corpo Avulso

In the everyday rush, we seem to live alone, unconcerned to the remaining universe that surrounds us. Every day, we tie ourselves and run into hundreds of lives. Who are they? Who are those people so similar to me and so different? We are all unknown ...

By Evandro de Souza Santos

Tigranakert: An Armenian Odyssey

Tigranakert: An Armenian Odyssey

Chronicles the discovery of an ancient Armenian city on territory occupied by Armenian forces since the recent war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The story of Tigranakert�s excavation explores controversial ideas of ethnic history and identity and i ...

By Zareh Tjeknavorian

Bock Saga - Welcome to Hel

Bock Saga - Welcome to Hel

It is the movie - travel on secret side of Finland. The mythology connected with one of the most ancient stories around the world - BOCK SAGA. The Saga told from creation of the world which was transmitted presently by Ior Bock. In the film, we wil ...

By Alexander Popov

They Read By Night

They Read By Night

A rock & roll playground of violence and betrayal deep within the human mind.

Paolo's dream

24 hours (really, only this long?...) in the life of Mr. Paolo Teobaldelli. Is this enough to truly understand a man who declares that he lives like a rat on the rooftop of a destroyed building in the �tough area of Exarcheia�? (Area in Athens, Greec ...

By Kirineos Papadimatos

A mysterious message carried by a balloon sparks doubts, questions and an unexpected journey starting from Italy. Destination: the south of France. http://mercidemerepondre.weebly.com/

By Mariachiara Pernisa

RETRATO, SOMBRA, GRITO

RETRATO, SOMBRA, GRITO

A man photographs a woman sitting reading in a garden. What seems like a simple premise is divided into three perspectives that relate the picture with the movie. The camera, the look, the viewer's consciousness, it is all a quick peek over the disp ...

�PM � Policial M�gico� � uma s�tira bem humorada direcionada aos policiais que fazem morteiros aparecerem nas mochilas de manifestantes, e gente de bem desaparecerem.

Looking Up Looking Down

Looking Up Looking Down

A young boy and girl skip school together and spend the day talking about the future. Years later they have a chance meeting and spend the night talking about the past.

Lost in East

Istanbul can be assumed as it is in the east logically and conscientiously even if it�s a city in the west. ?smet, who just graduated and lies low as an actor and a vocalist, decided to resist to life and the bad patch that he has been through whe ...

By S.Arda Emince

Colourless

Its a film depicting the discrimination people suffer from, the discrimination of religion. It depicts consumerism and hypocrisy of a common man. The film focuses how water, a colourless element, unites people from two religion and brings back the co ...

By Anirban Karmakar

Black Matter Tomithy

Black Matter Tomithy

The structure of The Wizard Of Oz. The insanity of John Waters. The eccentricity of Living Wake. Tomithy spirals into a stream of strange occurrences after coming in contact with a mysterious black sludge from outer space. Awkward and eccentric ...

By David Petlansky

The Lost Camera

The Lost Camera

The adventures of a camera forgotten by a passenger in a rickshaw in Kathmandu. DOWNLOAD for festivals in HD: https://vimeo.com/91908870 password= migrantfilm

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