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The Storyteller

The Storyteller

A loving but unstable cabbie is desperate to win back his children.

By Alex Emanuel

Glasshole

In early 2015 Google announced it would be cancelling its Google Glass wearable device project, but did the true reason behind the products failure have more sinister undertones? This short horror comedy asks what REALLY killed Google Glass and explo ...

By Jonathan Brooks

THEOX

The aged peasants of an imaginary land are forced to obey & transform their earth into a golden kingdom by adding a magic fertilizer to their crops. Only a fearless little girl can save them.

By Giorgos Nikopoulos

November 2019

Seriously

B. is a lonely woman, facing a deep personal crisis. When she reads the desperate message from R., a former student still looking for a job who promise to do up any paid job, she decides too ask for something she really would like to do herself.

By Stefano Nicoletti

Guantanamo Baby

Guantanamo Baby

The story of a heroic baby, trapped and imprisoned, trying to avoid yet another portion of green spinach in the arms of an over-caressing mom.

By APEIRON FILMS

Just Play

A group of men and women work with Al Kamandjati, a Palestinian Cultural Association, in the West Bank to turn music into a means of freedom and liberation. A film that sidesteps politics to make a powerful case for human dignity and art, and for the ...

By dimitri chimenti

C 412

Lisa is 13. She likes riding her bike and listening to the whistling of the wind in the trees. One afternoon, while riding down a small road in the forest, her bike-chain comes off and she meets Paolo, an experimental artist.

By Philippe jasmin

february 28

Guarded and aloof cancer survivor is trying to return to the normal life and forget the horrors of the defeated disease that are still haunting her. She finds a new job but it seems that she has nothing in common with other people. Socially withdraw ...

By Diana Galimzyanova

Tobias

The art film that makes film become art again. Tobias lives with his father in a village in the Austrian Alps. His only other companions, aside from the ornithologist in the forest, are his dreams. All alone, he seeks to find the impressions of hi ...

By Mario Kainer

Stoned Ape Theory

Stoned Ape Theory

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

Symphony of the forest

Symphony of the forest

A man depressed by an irreparable loss and about to take a final decision is called by a friend offered him a new life abroad. He think that moving to a new countrie it may help to solve his problems, but their problems not only unresolved, but they ...

By Martin Chertudi

24K All You Need Is Gold

24K All You Need Is Gold

We are a sadly poor group of friends that have worked for years in this industry and have faild one after another. Our goal with this crazy project was to demonstrate that we can do art through mainstream. With a very low budjet (it doesent look like ...

Mirrorball

Rechristened as, "Blue", a young artist from Mexico works as a janitor by day and drag queen performer by night. An intimate look inside the life of a talented young artist navigating his way through a foreign land.

Newly Single

Dumped by his girlfriend Astor finds himself alone and prowling; looking for love, sating his lust, and searching through the darkness of downtown Los Angeles.

By Adam Christian Clark

Senses

Zoe is lying on an old mattress remembering better times. There was a time when he had everything. But he lost it. Now he is starting to forget. In a world devoid of sensations he can't remember what he had. He knows it was not always positive but he ...

Veni Vidi Nescio (I Came, I Saw, I Don’t Know)

Veni Vidi Nescio (I Came, I Saw, I Don’t Know)

Shot in a Japanese theme park that replicates a Dutch town, Veni Vidi Nescio explores ideas of displacement and dislocation through conversations between two Amsterdammers as they discuss home, work and responsibility. On screen we meet two Japanes ...

By Christopher Holloran

Semiotics Of a Model

Semiotics Of a Model

Lily wants to be a model, but she can't. Because the company says she is still too big.

By Tabassom Habibzadeh

Aleqini

A stranger and a citizen, a poet and a singer. with no land neither homeland. Both are suspended to the unknown fate. It is happening now at this moment to somebody stuck somewhere. humanitarian, philosophical, and political

Soy Ringo

By Gabriela Aparici

A Risky Undertaking

A Risky Undertaking

Stuck within a monotonous bubble our sheltered heroine, ten-year-old Ariadne, seizes the opportunity to go on an adventure away from her highly dysfunctional parents. (Sea featured @5:24)

How Rear Projection Works

How Rear Projection Works

You're confusing rear and front projection with your 2001 and Oblivion examples.

By EL Pobre Profe

The Saint of the burning waters

The Saint of the burning waters

Since various decades, the local population denounce the decay of the Bodocongó's dam, located in Campina Grande (Paraiba, Brazil). Through this film we show a part of this struggle, as well as its reasons. Please note that one month after the end of ...

By Riccardo Migliore

Baja's Secret Miracle

Baja's Secret Miracle

Mario Castro, a fisherman that decided to change the destiny of his community, narrates this wonderful story that takes us in a journey of decades, to understand how the town of Cabo Pulmo created the world's most robust marine reserve.

By Eliana Alvarez Martinez

The Serbian Lawyer

The Serbian Lawyer

Taking place over the 4 years of the Karadzic trial, the film follows Marko's journey from an idealistic young lawyer to a doubt-ridden veteran. As Marko comes face to face with people who have lost family and friends during the war, he can no longer ...

By Eva Schellenbeck

Stand

The fictional story of a gay couple's search for the truth about a homophobic crime in Russia.

By Jonathan Taieb

The Day After Calvary

The Day After Calvary

The Day After Calvary - Tamil Short film [2015] This is a fantasy thriller and a Christianity based fiction, The movie was happening on Dark Saturday(next day of Good Friday), were two journalists going to a Island to find where ghost exist in this ...

By Akhil Rose Oliver

OCCUPYING ED

OCCUPYING ED is a film for the times. Ed learns, after a series of blackouts, that he has split personality disorder - and that his alternate personality thinks she's a woman. As Ed learns more about his alternate personality, he also begins to dev ...

By STEVE BALDERSON

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 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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