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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.

Once a Fury

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

By Jacqueline Rhodes

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

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

By EL Pobre Profe

July 2025

Greek Rock Revolution

Greek Rock Revolution

Greek Rock Revolution is a music documentary featuring seven of the bands representing the flourishing Greek Rock Scene, speaking about their music and the context �inspiring� this movement: a long- lasting unstable social situation boosting artistic ...

By Miguel Angel Cano

Within

This dramatic short tells the story of an enigmatic stranger who helps a desperate write on the verge of self-destruction revisit his past, leading him to confront the harsh reality of his childhood.

Lunatic

Let's assume a girl is breaking up with her boyfriend, because she fell in love with a disabled man. Let's assume her boyfriend thinks it's ridiculous and decides to protect her from her choice. And let's remember he's a good guy and has no evil inte ...

By Elzbieta B. Wysocka

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

LIMEN (omission)

LIMEN (omission)

2005, year of the death of John Paul II. Luca Bianco (FABRIZIO CROCI) is a christian fundamentalist, obsessed by Islam and by an extremely racist view of Christianity. A woman (FRANCESCA ZAVAGLIA) comes daily to tape their conversations. After few m ...

By Emiliano Dante

Burning from the inside

Burning from the inside

�Burning from the inside� is a socio-political documentary, coming out from the streets of Athens and Berlin. Using the rise of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn as the main axe, it exposes the fascist structures and the social disintegration witch inva ...

By Marsia Tzivara

Morgana

A girl imagines her own pregnancy.

By Karoline Ruiz

On Tiptoes

Liron is a kindergarten teacher and a full-time mother. After she realizes that her daughter, Lital, has development problems, Liron starts a journey, which affects her entire family. On her journey to help Lital become a regular child, Liron exp ...

Kafal Pakyo

The film is set in the countryside of Nepal during the civil war period, where most men were either abroad or displaced because of the war. A countryside where orient cuckoo bird (known locally as Kafal Pakyo ) tweets continuously. Sushmadevi, a moth ...

By Niranjan Raj Bhetwal

Rupestre

Rupestre is a cry for Mexico and the world to appreciate the musical value of a group of Mexican musicians and how their artistic careers were intertwined with a genuine, unique, controversial and completely grassroots cultural movement.

By Alberto Z��iga

La Trifulca II a five billion dollar trilogy

La Trifulca II a five billion dollar trilogy

Tijuana has been subject to a massive invasion of Hondurans escaping violence and poverty in Central America attempting to enter the US, one way or another.

By Arturo Pulido

Film Temptation

Film Temptation

Film Temptation is about an Australian lady who lives with her relative in Sydney City. Since childhood, she has always dream of being a successful movie actress. When she grew up, she turned into a beautiful and cheerful lady and wish to realize her ...

Alchemy in Hyde Park

Alchemy in Hyde Park

Alchemy in Hyde Park is the first digital feature-length fiction film shot and set entirely in the neighborhood of Hyde Park (Chicago, IL). It is an esoteric drama about four Chicagoans (Mira, Rumi, Franco, and Louise) who help one another grow throu ...

By Robert Beshara

Damned On Earth

Damned On Earth

The ordinary Hell official Amon is assigned with a strange task by Luzifer: Together with the chaotic, sex-crazed Samsaveel, he is in charge of stopping Belial, Prince of Hell, who's gone out of control. In order to claim the thrones of Heaven and He ...

O.C.D.

A man's tale of his obsessive compulsive disorder plagued relationship with a woman.

By Jade Gautier

By hours

Two friends sharing a flat decide to rent their sofa by hours in order to get some extra money. The new visitors will break their balance and change their lifes. http://evamariafernandez.weebly.com

By Eva Mar�a Fern�ndez

How many families will be evicted Rio on behalf of the Olympics? How many life stories will be stopped for the realization of an event that will last 15 days? Who profits from removals in the city? The Vila Aut�dromo residents tell the story of the comm ...

If I GIve My Soul

If I GIve My Soul

In Brazil, the inmates in prisons and jails are almost exclusively poor, black, uneducated males - society's lowest. In these previously unfilmed locations, �If I Give My Soul� examines how five Brazilian inmates have coped with this profound social ...

By Andrew Johnson

Love Like This

If you had the opportunity to have a love thet fit you perfectly. It didn't come the way you thought it would come or who you thought it would be from ....would you keep it? And if you kept it to what extent would you go to defend it

By NeVaughn Brown

My Eyes

Once upon a time there was an old lady who had a doll. She loved painting, but one day an accident changed the way in which she sees her world, to find her forgotten past.

La Scultura

Art that prostitutes itself, dies! The Sculpture is a film set in Italy in the contemporary world. The film deals with love, with trampled art, with prostitution, with transvestism and with the situation of the sculpture in Italy.

By Evoque Art House

No One Is Watching

No One Is Watching

Matt leaves Detroit to live with his old friend Joe in Chicago. Unbeknown to Joe, Matt has quietly been struggling with schizophrenia for the past year. When his fiancee sends him a breakup letter, Matt falls into despair and begins to fear he is bei ...

By middlebranchprod.

Ciudad

Ciudad es un cortometraje documental - experimental donde el espacio urbano es protagonista, calles, edificios personajes, todos inmersos en la cotidianidad que mata, mirando pasar y la vida extinguirse.

By J. Pablo Romo

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.

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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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