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THE WORLD'S BEST SELF-FUNDED FILMS XXII OFFICIAL SELECTION 2024 CALL FOR ENTRIES XXIII 2025

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Pirinha
Dani Feixas
Nima Tabandeh
Salih Cihan Özalp
Orangel Lugo
Rodrigo Sena
Esteban Santana Guerrero
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Eloy Gurucharri
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Muriel Montini
Jaicheng Xai Dohutia
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Tábata Clarissa de Morais
Gustavo Campos
Nurdan Tekeoglu

Mother

The true story about a 3 years old boy who was abandoned at a landfill by his mother but later finds the strength to forgive her.

By Michail Komlev

CIA - Club Internacional Aguerridos

CIA - Club Internacional Aguerridos

Filming aimlessly in a punk dominated ghetto a pseudo bourgeois cineaste ends up starring in his own breakneck movie.

By Leandro C�rdova

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

Cinema's Propaganda Machine

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

By EL Pobre Profe

March 2025

The Abyss (Bezdna)

The Abyss (Bezdna)

Deep inside an abandoned industrial area in a bottomless pit lies unknown danger - this is what a jealous young man sees in his dream. Meanwhile, his beloved girlfriend cheats on him with his best friend. Or does she? What if that is only an illusion ...

By Sergii Bazhenov

Fruta Podrida

After receiving a warning, inspector find several bodies at the base of a river. Fed up with this situation and brass knuckles in hand, begins to question the finest scum of the neighborhood. After obtaining some information initiates appropriate a ...

Friend Request

During a film festival in Berlin, Rami, Lebanese, finds himself in the presence of Ayala, Israeli. Considering the tumultuous relationship between the two countries, Rami gets paranoid and tries to avoid contact with the "enemy". But on that neutral ...

Monsoons Over The Moon

Monsoons Over The Moon

A mythical drama set in post-apocalyptic Nairobi about a street gang fighting to escape an oppressive regime in search of spiritual enlightenment and freedom.

The Harper Run

Join Brian FitzGerald - The Sky Surfer - on a POV Documentary-Style flight across the plains of Kansas.

By Brian FitzGerald

From The Killingtons

From The Killingtons

All the things that make family time festive and special...joy, togetherness, murder.

Last Pickup

Henchmen James, Mickey and Whitey just got arrested, again, but this time they are facing jail time. They decide to turn to their boss, Mr. Worthington, who is the type of man who can make things like this go away. While James, Mickey and Whitey h ...

By Courtney J. Camerota

Wave of Laure

In 2050, Laure, 30, a working woman, wakes up and goes to work. But this day, everything is different. When she tries to talk to her neighbours, her colleagues or her best friend, nobody hears her, and she can't hear anyone as well. The situation ...

By Benzemrane lynda

House of Magic

House of magic During cold war a KGB agent Victor Pastrovich and his wife infiltrate US and hides in the deserts of California. Now the cold war was long over Victor has no propose to go on, he become depressed and lost interest in life. Meanwhile h ...

By rasika ruwanpathirana

teleVision Quest

teleVision Quest

An experimental short about apathy, obsession and television.

By Terence Cover

Death of a Leaf

Death of a Leaf

Uncle Khosrow was a faithful and God fearing man.

BYE BYE HAVANA

As long as Cuba stays communist nothing will change for the general population, especially not for those who do not receive remittances. For all Havana's crumbling structures and piles of rubble, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalop ...

By J. Michael Seyfert

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Raheel, an Afghan woman, has illegally traveled to Iran to look for her husband.

By Ayat asadi rahbar

Unforeseen

Four criminology students set out to find a serial killer on the loose in order to help launch their careers.

By Daiana Sanchez

Black Limpid

A panorama about the water polluted from rivers that cross the city of Rio de Janeiro with residents who live near these places. Black Limpid mixes fiction with reality, making a metaphor of man's creation with the importance of water.

By Eduardo Boone

Back to nowhere

Back to nowhere

4-piece London rockers Mercutio borrow their name from one of the most controversial characters in Shakespeare�s Romeo and Juliet. Their music is as passionate and personal as the vicissitudes of the famous character; anger, instinct love, fear and m ...

By riccardo sai

Vanessa uma joven universit�ria estudiante de comunicaci�n Social-periodismo es invitada a realizar su primera direccion de arte em m�dio de su aventura aprenderemos de la mano de especialistas del campo audiovisual de Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, y Br ...

By Hugo Andres Quintero Rivera

Lucas es arrastrado a una comida en la que su padre intentar� cerrar un negocio con su amigo servidor p�blico. Guiado por el aburrimiento sigue a su hermano mayor Eleazar, que comienza a hurgar entre cosas ajenas y posiblemente provocar que se metan en ...

By Jos� Pablo Escamilla

a boy being punished, locked in his room, uses his imagination to free himself and travel somewhere far away: "There."

By Renato Lepsch

Arnoldo Camu y Los Combatientes Allendistas

Arnoldo Camu y Los Combatientes Allendistas

Documentary about the forgotten Chilean revolutionary Arnoldo Cam� Veloso and the political history of Chile in the 1960s and early 1970s, in the context of a Latin America convulsed by the winds of liberation.

By Sergio Arevalo

Jalila ?????

It could be just another film about a woman, or a film about �the woman�, the ones we would see in our everyday lives. Jalila goes beyond depicting Syrian women involved in the uprising but rather brings a different perspective on women in a crisis ...

HORSEFACE

A 20� budget Comedy-Horror-Science fiction-thriller-Animal-Drama shortfilm starred by my grandmother and me.

By Marc Mart�nez Jord�n

The First Summer

The First Summer

Isabel and Miguel meet during a driving lesson. They start hanging out and end up spending the summer together. In Autumn, he travels to visit his family, while she stays and takes care of his dog. When he returns their love for each other will be te ...

Trolleyology

In a not-so-distant future... Sandra is the host of Trolleyology, a reality prank show that judges the morality of the �contestants�, through elaborate fake life or death situations. Naturally, she�s a woman with many enemies, with a long backlog ...

By Natalia Chernaya

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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 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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