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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

Stock!

A strange story of a deal, art, money, market and madness

By WAL

Materiales para resistir la realidad

Materiales para resistir la realidad

Al inicio de los a�os noventa del siglo pasado, en la Ciudad de M�xico, un grupo de autores de historieta buscan espacio para su obra, despu�s de varios intentos y a punto de renunciar a la idea, conocen a un editor con experiencia en la publicaci�n de revista ...

By Benjam�n Garc�a

La G�era, il mio paese che scompare. This is the story of a forgotten land. The little city of La G�era. But the whole Western Sahara as well. A land which Saharawi people cannot return to. Mohamed lives in Nouadhibou, in Mauritania. But he can alwa ...

By Gilberto Mastromatteo

Road to the Well

Road to the Well

A drifter pays a visit to an old friend whose mundane life is upended after the two become involved in a strange and seemingly random murder, journeying up to the Northern California Sierra in order bury the body.

Madrid, above the Moon

Madrid, above the Moon

Unos d�as de verano en la vida de un fot�grafo madrile�o al que no le va muy bien. Le prestan una casa para que la cuide y �l aprovecha para hacerse pasar por el due�o de la casa y ligar con algunas turistas.

By Miguel Santesmases

Vozerio

New forms of insurgency and unrest on the fragments of the actions of some artists and activists. The recording of confrontation has its strongest expression in the performance. We see echoing clashes in a series of images. The cry begins before the ...

By Vladimir Seixas

Bajo Taxhimay

In the year of 1933 in the village of San Luis de Peras, now San Luis Taxhimay, was flooded by the landowner Javier Rojo Gomez, on behalf of the agricultural industry of the State of Hidalgo, bypassing the people and history San Luis.

By Jorge H. Rosas

Reina de Corazones

Reina de Corazones

La Cooperativa Ar/Tv Trans es una cooperativa de teatro formada por travestis y trans, que naci� con el �nico objetivo de sacar a las chicas de la prostituci�n. Esta Cooperativa busca visibilizar, mediante el arte, tem�ticas referidas a su identidad, reiv ...

By Guillermo Bergandi

IISA

As One is a narrative feature about a never ending war, a town ravaged by a devastating storm and the woman caught in between.

By Chuck Gutierrez

The fortune you seek is in another cookie

The fortune you seek is in another cookie

The fortune you seek is in another cookie a dizzying journey around the world in search for happiness as a poetic and political practice. The filmmaker finds himself at the protests in and around Gezi Park, Istanbul, in front of the gates of the Ci ...

By Johannes Gierlinger

Saudade

The sudden departure of Emmanuel leaves Adama a feeling of emptiness that neither her husband nor her friends can fill. Time passes by as Adama hopes for her son to come back soon.

By Sebasti�n Ur�a

Chacal: Proibido Fazer Poesia

Chacal: Proibido Fazer Poesia

After decades of feeling overlooked by the literary establishment, the Brazilian poet Chacal is invited by Harvard to spend a week in the US, where he presents his art as a poet and performer. He engages in a revision of memory, linked to the Mimeogr ...

By Rodrigo Lopes de Barros

Roubado

"Roubado" tells the story of Alain Castelo, an introverted Afro-Portuguese teen growing up in the south of France. As he suffers his parents' recent breakup, the only solace he can muster is his penchant for photography. When his mother's new live- ...

By Erica A. Watson

Tokyo Grand Guignol

Tokyo Grand Guignol

4 stories: 1- A man wakes up every morning living the same day until he figures out that killing makes him go back in time... 2- Nami, a young lady realizes that her mirror reflects her evil side. When she opens a mysterious box, the evil Nami sta ...

By Hiroei Ishihara

Vlog

Kreso becomes victim of an unjust social system and various life situations that unfold gradually leading him to utter financial and existential destruction, while he is powerless over the outcome and can do nothing to change his life for the better. ...

"Transl�cidos" narra a vida de pacientes presos em uma cl�nica de tratamento de disforia de g�nero. Ali transg�neros vivem a base de medicamentos e t�cnicas de avers�o, fazendo um claro coment�rio sobre a presen�a de transgeneridade na Classifica��o Internacional de ...

By Guilherme Candido

Alfredinho

A night in Copacabana with Mr. Alfredo.

By Vitor Souza Lima

Mahi

An old couple are living in an apartment, the man is sleeping and the woman is doing housework. The lady wants to change the fishbowl�s water but it slips out of her hand and falls on the ground. They've ran out of water and there�s no water for the ...

By Saman Hosseinpuor

Hands up, we are the Thief !!! Music, Rock, Politics, Freedom of Expression Technological !!! Bass, Drums and Guitar !!! Power Trio consisting of: Daniel -Drums / Voice / Samples Farrah - Guitar / Voice Formiga - Bass Out assault . ...

The Caramel Corn Riot

The Caramel Corn Riot

The city is decaying when three different personalities encountering in divergent spaces: the junior assistant brutally instructed by the senior cameraman, the real estate agency girl suffered cases of aborted sales, and the abandoned workers are blo ...

By Guang Cheng Shie

Perfect Theater

Perfect Theater

The story of conception, development and birth of a theatrical performance.

By Alexey Yakovlev

How to make a 3-minute movie that has no theme?

By Jean David IZAMBARD

Reinvention of four musical movements of Symphony No. 3, Vladimir Hirsch "Brands of Tyranny". A proposal for consideration regarding the behavioral issue of human violence in the treatment of animals. Images taken with a cell phone camera.

By coletivo madeirista

EVERYTHING IS FALSE (TOUT EST FAUX)

EVERYTHING IS FALSE (TOUT EST FAUX)

The wanderings of Fred a single man in Paris at the time of the presidential elections 2012. In front of a more and more false world he is going to build up to itself his own reality...

By jean-marie villeneuve

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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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