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Orangel Lugo
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Self-Deportation: The Untold Tale of a Marginal Woman

Self-Deportation: The Untold Tale of a Marginal Woman

An Asian American woman crosses over into a surreal world after a series of strange encounters on the subway.

Lovely Journey

Combining religion and socialism with sexual feelings.

By Carolina Hindsj�

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

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

By EL Pobre Profe

August 2025

SAOL

SAOL film is a perspective on a young girl trapped in her own house and in her own life after losing her dad a year before. Another Christmas arrives, but everything has changed. She has got a tremendous Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) with a fea ...

La parte por el todo

La parte por el todo

Durante la �ltima dictadura militar argentina, las Fuerzas Armadas llevaron adelante un plan sistem�tico de apropiaci�n de menores, cuyo punto m�s siniestro fue el funcionamiento de maternidades dentro de los centros clandestinos de detenci�n. Para iluminar es ...

By Roberto Persano

Lecciones de Vuelo

Lecciones de Vuelo

Un joven perseverante de 17 a�os es aceptado en la escuela de pilotos de la Fuerza A�rea. Su sue�o de volar y escapar de su precaria realidad se ve interrumpido por el embarazo de su novia y su esforzada madre.

By Daniela Olivares Herrera

Feedback

�Feedback� closely examines the psychological toll of isolation on a 27-year-old woman as she struggles with identity and mental instability amid modern city life.

By Mark Di Giovanni

1234

One night, a man saw wonder scene during the snooze. If In the dream, anything is free,and anything can happen. http://www.tuzumiya.com

By Shiro Ichige

The Yellow Cake

The Yellow Cake

Dealing with the idea that Saddam Hussein has got a mini atomic bomb ( dirty ) is a matter that contains so much of truth, attraction and suspense since it is a matter that people were concerned with and its unexpectedly we deal with because of its ...

By Awat Osman Ali

ALAS

A helpless father begins to understand that he must make a painful concession in order to bring happiness to his son on his 9th birthday.

By Miky Wajnerman

Good Shit and Magic Sticks

Good Shit and Magic Sticks

This entry is a comedy stoner film in which 2 Stoners are eager to try "Magic Sticks", a new blend of weed in which they are able to see their fantasies whenever they smoke it. The film starts when a stoner named Phillipe who gets into an argument wi ...

By Jiggy Gregorio

Spider's Trap

SPIDERS TRAP tells the story of one man�s taste for revenge and another man�s dreams of glory. Jack Spider (Alan Sherlock) longs for the day when he can escape from prison and rob one more jewellery store. He can�t do it alone. He needs the Black Wa ...

Eyes

(Girl probably offend in all men around her,because they forces her to)

By moustafa elmeligy

BLACK MOON (LUNE NOIRE)

BLACK MOON (LUNE NOIRE)

Early 19th century. An island. Three men. A long walk through the night.

By Gallien Guibert

A single face necessarily Answers to all the names in the world - Paul Eluard

By Dominique Maury Lasmartres

The Aristocrats

The Aristocrats

Obscene, disgusting, vulgar, vile! 101 superstar comedians tell the same utterly filthy joke --one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville. (MATURE)

By ideólogo monofóbico

Star Wars: Threads of Destiny

Star Wars: Threads of Destiny

94 years after the defeat of emperor Palpatine, the galaxy is once again in deep conflict. The new republic and the Skenvi empire both compete over the small planet Coreign that provides a special ore.

By Rasmus Tirzitis

Ruthless (Sang Vergogne)

Ruthless (Sang Vergogne)

Paris. Its monuments, luxury brands, cafe terraces. But also its suburbs, its traffic, its crime. It follows a mysterious man on a powerful sports car that runs on a day the dark side of the capital between dubious acquaintances and suspicious trans ...

By Christopher Zengomona

Jewel Garden

Short documentary film about preserving Tibetan Art. Tibet has one of the oldest cultures in the world and their Art speaks volumes about the Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The film is an attempt to capture the intent, technique and significance of thi ...

By Apoorva Gandhi

An old street vendor generates a world of fantasy in which he lives to hide his solitude together with his dog, Agust�n. What he does not know is that his fantasy has transformed into his disease.

By The Farandulers

A protest is a magnificent expression of people power, a collective realization and affirmation of courage and of genuine and direct participation, without asking anyone to represent us, without delegating anyone to speak for us.

By Pedro Soares

CUCKOO (ASSAMESE)

CUCKOO (ASSAMESE)

A unique tribal youth festival celebrated in a separate natural location during the night hours with song of love & dance. It�s about a festival called �Raati Bihu� which is observed by an indigenous tribal group called Moran in India�s north-east ...

By JAICHENG JAI DOHUTIA

Once a Fury

In the 1970s a notorious lesbian separatist collective published a national newspaper and planned to seize state power.

By Jacqueline Rhodes

Hassan in Wonderland

Hassan in Wonderland

The children of Iraq are growing up with violence. We meet little Hassan and his friends who are innocently playing together when suddenly one of them finds a real gun. This provokes a conflict within the group that is either going to break off their ...

By Ali Kareem Obaid

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

T� pregunta que yo contesto�

By Jaume Quiles

Invasion

During a Carnival holiday, a group of friends decide to travel to a remote country house. What they did not expect was that terrifying events would be witnessed in major cities in the world. Isolated and without communication, the group needs to de ...

By Helio Martins Jr.

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%
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[ Call for Entries 2025 ]

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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