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Monty Comes Back

Monty Comes Back

A young actor with an inflated ego returns to live with his parents under false pretenses.

A Cigar At The Beach

A Cigar At The Beach

A married man escapes the demands of domestic life through wishful thinking.

By Stephen Keep Mills

Old Man's Heavy Sleep

Old Man's Heavy Sleep

A lonely old man and his deadly loneliness.

By Mostafa Rostampour

She Rises

A director and her lead actor get a vacation rental while filming a movie. Their host, who initially comes across as extremely sweet and caring, becomes their worst nightmare.

By Larry Wade Carrell

Das Krokodil im Hallenbad

Das Krokodil im Hallenbad

Secret agent Magenta gets order from her Boss called Mint to bring a mirroring egg from a upper class house. There is not only a russian maid trying to stop her, the daughters of the house, Cyan and Violet, seems beeing part of this game too.

By Helmut Steinecker

Forgotten Scares

Forgotten Scares

AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT FLEMISH HORROR CINEMA The feature-length documentary "Forgotten Scares" goes back to the birth of Flemish horror in the '70s and shines a bright light on the future of horror in Belgium. The viewer gets a chance to discover lon ...

By Steve De Roover

The Other Side

A day in the life of a Spanish teenager living in South Africa in form of a narrated poem.

CUSCUZ PEITINHO

CUSCUZ PEITINHO

Carol, de 27 a�os, ha sido siempre el cuidado de la t�a conservadora. En su ausencia, que permite descubrir con la ayuda de un nuevo amigo.

By Rodrigo Sena

The Cucumber That Killed Me

The Cucumber That Killed Me

homage to the realization of desires and obsessions and the freedom of oppressed women.

By Francisco Lupini Basagoiti

Una pieza audiovisual compuesta por 9 vistas y 9 o�das tomadas en la Rep�blica de Georgia, realizados en el 2016 con una duraci�n de 36 segundos en c�mara en mano y sonido directo, y grabado con un dispositivo de baja resoluci�n. Es una pieza meta-cinematogr�fi ...

By Camilo Mart�n-Fl�rez

caseria de bruxas

caseria de bruxas

Una de las marchas mas importantes en Honduras, son las famosas marchas de las antorchas, se comenzaron a dar por razones de querer sacar al presidente actual de honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez, la gente salio a las calles a gritar fuera joh!

By Josue Orellana

Close Your Eyes

Close Your Eyes

Hamoody is a teenage violin player living in a garbage dumpster dreaming that someday he will play a concert. His little sister together with the dumpster kids want to make his dream come true.

By Ali Albayati

MISIRLOU

A Veteran comes to Venice beach to find a gang of adrenaline junkies killing people to extract a psychedelic drug out of their organs.

By Trevor Simms

METAL LASER CITY

METAL LASER CITY

A city burns down. It rebuilds itself as if by an invisible hand and is finally obliterated in a cosmic crash.... A nightmarish cine poem on 16mm film about an apocalyptic city and it's bizarre and tragic inhabitants. (All you see is as it was shot a ...

By Philipp Ramspeck

Maria Teresa

Desde el a�o 1992, ha llegado a tener tantos reconocimientos con los cuales decora las paredes de su casa, porque el gusto de Maria Teresa por correr fue creciendo progresivamente hasta volverse su norte, su vida.

By Gladys Medina

The Proper Rules to Stuffing Hostages in Trucks

The Proper Rules to Stuffing Hostages in Trucks

Schizophrenia

Self-portrait conducted in my 7th year of treatment for schizophrenia. An obsession by the name of �odd-numbers� torments me in daily life

By Yuri Muraoka

WHAT'S REVENGE

Kat compels her friend Erica on a journey of revenge on the men in her life.

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

Zaki y Zene

Laberynthic transmigration of bodes and souls: Zaki and Zene, simultaneously ghosts and incarnations of the past and present History.

By Gaston Ibarroule

He wasn't there. Neither could he leave.

Luciano Nadalini � diventato fotografo di cronaca nel 1984, da allora ha documentato per l'Unit� gran parte degli eventi successi a Bologna. � accaduto in citt�", attraverso gli scatti e il racconto di chi li ha resi immortali per la memoria storica, riperc ...

By noemi pulvirenti

BLACK RAT

Sydney's own Real Life Superhero, The Black Rat prowls the streets of Newtown at night in his crusade against crime. The documentary reveals his motivations and his past trauma that drove him to not only improve himself but the community he lives in.

Coming To

A man wakes up in a Koreatown hallway, naked except for a cock ring and a frilly scarf. Shot in one continuous five-minute take, Coming To follows the true story of a young man who wakes up from a meth relapse, as he puts together the pieces of ho ...

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Building bridges based on the
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Cine Pobre is the 100%
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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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