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Danilo Stanimirović
Francisco Muñoz
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Fantastic

Balloon men, crazed composers, horny history teachers, poets trapped in experimental film cliches, talking donuts, the Hawaiian Wizard of Oz, and OTHER THINGS are set amongst some of the greatest (and rarest) classical pieces of all time in this live ...

By Vincent Gargiulo

The Landscape Within

The Landscape Within

A body-painter, costume designer, photographer and conceptual artist struggles to find new directions after the death of his father.

By Andrea Capranico

The Drinking Life

The Drinking Life

A community of drinkers in an early-morning bar

By Kenneth J Harvey

December 2019

Offline

Living a virtual, perpetually "connected" life, George has no human connection, until one night when a power outage forces him to ask for help from a stranger.

By Roberto Drilea

American Mongrel

American Mongrel

Three strangers take a road trip into the northwest and redefine their American Dream.

By Deniz Demirer

SANTA TERESA

Santa Teresa, a city of 1.5 million people in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, a hub for drug trafficking with 300 unsolved murders of young women.

By Capuzzi & Dainotti

Alberdi´s Heroes

Alberdi´s Heroes

When a space is compromised, memory is endangered. After demolitions, debris and ghosts are left. There are some visible traces only for those who sharpen their eyes in search of the past. Under such risk, some stay to defend what they know is their ...

By Andres Grabois

Starvation

Fake News has reached the world of a hungry wolf who's life is in danger after being accused of what big bad wolves are stereotypically accused of.

By Zahra Rostampour

The Cart (The Gaariwala)

The Cart (The Gaariwala)

This is the story of the indomitable dream of two young brothers, Habil and Kabil, and their car that has never been defeated. Their mother works at a rice mill despite severe illness, while father is a rickshaw-puller, who has been missing for 2 yea ...

By Ashraf Shishir

The Marvin Case

The Marvin Case

The disappearance of a capricious cat leads to the biggest financial crisis in history.

By Lewis Eizykman

Summer of Ava

Two best friends spend their fleeting summer together.

Amor Imposible

As Memo tries to reveal his feelings to Rosa, things get complicated when Diego, her favorite soap opera character comes to life and knocks at her door.

By Jesus Guevara

Axe

A seemingly ordinary day in the woods. Suddenly a girl appears, breaking the peace and quiet. She's being chased by a man with an axe. https://www.facebook.com/filmsekira

By Zikica Jovanovic

Like a dead man in Acapulco

Like a dead man in Acapulco

A soap-opera writer struggles with her ghosts in a remote alpine chalet.

By Alessio Pizzicannella

How To Use Film Titles Creatively

How To Use Film Titles Creatively

Nerdwriter essay about just that.

By EL Pobre Profe

CABBAGE

Cabbage, a herbaceous plant. Peculiar species of the borecole genre, best known for developing a characteristic "head" of fibrous sheets firmly entangled. The vegetables are defined by the slowness of their movement, which is metabolism, through whic ...

Nowhere Place

Where do you find the essence of your existence? On the peaks of the highest mountains in the world? Even higher, on an uninhabited planet from which you can never escape? Or is it in the deepest sorrow, by leaving a trail of destruction that will ne ...

By Susanne Opstal

Desi Angrezi - The English of India

Desi Angrezi - The English of India

Desi Angrezi (The English of India) is a tale of human aspirations and struggle. Naushad and Tanveer, the protagonists in the film, come from humble backgrounds. They have big dreams. Naushad wishes to be a civil servant, and Tanveer aspires to becom ...

By Shadab Nazmi

INGEN KO PÅ ISEN

INGEN KO PÅ ISEN

Language and landscape as a gate into a new life. A young Galician filmmaker emigrates to Sweden, where he performs different part-time jobs. His learning of a new language and fascination for the Swedish landscape become a driving force against the ...

By Eloy Domínguez Serén

Pyro

After the financial crisis, all of the local fire departments have been closed, leaving only a small group of volunteers to protect the city, when a dangerous pyromaniac strikes the subsystem underneath the streets.

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 ...

Polyglot Telephone

Polyglot Telephone

Polyglot Telephone / dir. Valeria Lopez / investigates the way meaning is transformed through language translation. Language is a logos that imposes itself on us but at the same time, can only live through us and is modified and transformed by us. ...

By EL Pobre Profe

KYEL

A troubled man finds his own cure in the vast darkness of his room. Trying to persuade his lover to come back, he discovers a new form of therapy - his greatest ordeal, a terrible encounter he has to escape from. The horrors inside his head creeps in ...

By Arvin Kadiboy Belarmino

The Proposal

Rich and handsome. Tall and stylish. Smart and charming. The Man with Everything... except a wife to grow old with. Because after years of dating, Scott Anderson knows that even the most Special Someone wouldn't be enough to fill the hole in his hear ...

By Simeon Lumgair

qoyo (قيو)

#qoyo is a short film about a guy who experiences a situation, which made him, go to the streets and expresses his opinion his was.

By essam emadeldin

Nepal Earthquake: Heroes, Survivors & Miracles

Nepal Earthquake: Heroes, Survivors & Miracles

On 25 April 2015 at 11:56 local time, a devastating (7.8) earthquake struck Nepal with an epicenter in Barpak, a village of Gorkha district (144 km northwest) of Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal left 9,000 (More than half were female) dead, many ...

By Ganesh Panday

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 Düsseldorf, 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

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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 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

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XVIII Cine Pobre FF 2020 animation / documentary / experimental / music / african / underground / road trip

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