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Lorenzo Harani
Arturo López
Carme Puche Moré
Jean Apa
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Francisco Tomás Sanchez
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Pirinha
Dani Feixas
Nima Tabandeh
Salih Cihan Özalp
Orangel Lugo
Rodrigo Sena
Esteban Santana Guerrero
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EXCERPTS FROM CINE POBRE FILM FESTIVAL OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

OS XIII 2015
OS XIV 2016
OS XV 2017
OS XVI 2018
OS XVII 2019

There's Always Tomorrow

There's Always Tomorrow

"Pularum Iniyum Naalekal" /revolves around ex-lovers Anthony & Durga, who are now happily settled in their respective marriages. The two have a chance meeting after a gap of eight years, a meeting that unexpectedly turns into one that of self-discove ...

By Shilpa Krishnan Shukla

Andrea y Lorenzo

Andrea y Lorenzo

Romantic comedy about a young journalist who feels her professional and personal life have come to a halt. But the return of her former college flame she once dumped, now turned rock star, will give her a new perspective on life, love and being true ...

By Rolando D'Lugo

A chance encounter of two friends will forever change everything.

By Christopher Montalvo N.

Red Path

A short film about the sacred dimension of menstruation. An awakening call to all women around the globe to awaken and access their most powerful tool, their menstruation, by connecting to it's cycles and by offering it to the Earth as a hearing act ...

By Myriam Negre

Bunny Girl

Driven by the crises state of our biosphere and social unrest, the title character Bunny Girl is a combined eroticized Playboy "bunny" and animal of the same name. Traversing sweeping landscapes layered with found footage of global events, BUNNY GIRL ...

The Earth Belongs To No One

The Earth Belongs To No One

On her way back home from school, 14-year-old Sky is followed home, the rest is a blur. Her big sister Jessy-May a tough, isolated 16-year-old attempts to protect her family the only way she knows how.

The Candidate

The Candidate goes through a rigorous vetting process to determine if he is The One for someone's very specific agenda.

By Blaire Baron

Not knowing who you are is a beautiful source of surprises

Not knowing who you are is a beautiful source of surprises

Johan�s girlfriend, Annelie ,has dumped him one month before their wedding. His best friend, Markus, buys him an interrail ticket and sends him off alone on a journey full of challenges. Challenges both the natural once appearing from the nature of t ...

By Karl Sterner

Golden Tuna - Montreal Sessions

Golden Tuna - Montreal Sessions

After leaving Berlin, French multidisciplinary artist Golden Tuna surfs Montreal's cold and dark wave to find inspiration. Contains nudity.

By Jenny Cartwright

400 millas

At his father�s request, a young man returns home after several years to make peace with the man he vowed never to see again. 400 MILES is a story of forgiveness. Raul, a young man, gets word that his father�with whom he�s had an estranged relatio ...

By Victor Martin

A man in his late 40's is showing his villa to a young man in his early 20's� The young man is following him without saying a word. After a while, he's asking him when was the last time he had desire�

By Jean-Charles Massera

Birdy Jr.

How do you tell your 6 years old child that you are terminally ill. Ask Birdy.

By Serge Fenenko

we are in it

We are in it features visceral scenes from the everyday lives of Karla, Serges, Hussein, Nancy and Tutu. For all of them, Houston is their common space of struggle, pleasure, and shelter. For them, Houston is a second, third or even fourth city of re ...

By Yehuda Sharim

Radha

A young woman on the run from her past tries to find solace and oblivion in the arms of a mysterious dancer.

By Nicolas Courdouan

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Called to Walls

Called to Walls

�Out of view of the high art world and the hip gallery scene comes this heartening story of unlikely partners in middle America working together to reexamine their histories, celebrate what makes their towns unique, and imagine their futures in the f ...

By Queen Alidore

El Umbral

En un futuro cercano Juan ha perdido a su mujer en un accidente. Sumergido en una profunda depresi�n, decide someterse a un tratamiento para ser inducido a la muerte y as� volver a encontrarse con ella por �ltima vez. Dentro de un extra�o mundo, confundir� lo ...

By Fabio Vallarelli

GARGALESIS - The TickleKiller

GARGALESIS - The TickleKiller

What does a 'killer' actually do? Well, as the name suggests: 'killekille' (german for 'to tickle'). This gentleman definitely lives up to his name... 'GARGALESIS - The KilleKiller' is a funny film noir style fake trailer, which placed in the TOP99 a ...

By Sascha Loffl

No one at that place.

No one at that place.

50s film projectionist who is only do film projection. One day, suddenly, new digital projectors come in.

By Seunghyeob Kim

My Talk with Florence

My Talk with Florence

A minimalist interview-film, dealing with one of the most disturbing life-stories of the 20th Century. Florence fled from the sexual and psychological abuse by her post-war bourgeois home into a vagabond life of crime and freedom. She ended up in the ...

ENTRE LO SAGRADO Y LO PROFANO

ENTRE LO SAGRADO Y LO PROFANO

Documentary film that takes a visual and anthropological journey through man's spirit across the thin line dividing excessive faith in religious believes and the passion with which he devotes himself to worldly pleasures in a city that coexists in ha ...

By Ektor Alonzo

ASTRA

Astra is a experimental narrative short film in which fantasy and reality are coming back and forward. Ian, a young man in a wheelchair, tries to abandon an imaginary love who is consuming his life. Ian tries to kill Astra but he is interrupted by B ...

By Andres Pineros

Russian Face

"�they told you that if you wanted to be an artist you shouldn�t have children. And now you tell me this, how am I supposed to feel?" My mother was born in Moscow to a family of a physics professor but chose to become a painter. I grew up in Jerusale ...

By Tamar Rachokvsky

Phantasms of the Living

Phantasms of the Living

During an afternoon at the swimming pool, a young girl will live her first flirtation. An unexpected sharing of senses that will forever remain etched on her lips.

By Jean-S�bastien Bernard

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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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