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Sylwia Kubus
Julian Reboratti
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Dash Kolos

OS XIV 2016

Official Selection XIV Cine Pobre Film Festival 2016

Mould

Mould explores the intertwining relationship of the natural and built environment which has developed into the present day tourist town of Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The dominance of the ever growing built environment is visually constructed throug ...

The Alley Cat

A bike messenger leaves an alley cat race and goes on a spiritual journey through Chicago�s nighttime streets.

By Marie Ullrich

A lonely pirate with a pancake delivery service has several stops to make. Struggling with bosses, poets and a dark prophecy, he looks for meaning in life after breakfast.

By Josh Steinbauer

Sacred And Profane Faceless Jacks

Sacred And Profane Faceless Jacks

An anti-narrative tone poem for those that are lost, unsure and comfortable living within that dialectic.

By vagabond Beaumont

Last Breath

Axel and Maelle are a simple, dynamic couple but their intimacy is abusive. To save his relationship and save himself Axel departs on a journey inward.

By Seyed A. Hosseini

LAKSHMI

Lakshmi lives a humdrum existence of toiling at the office and her home to take care of her small family, never stopping to take time for herself. Until one day when she earns the attention of a handsome stranger, and begins to dream of something mo ...

Caposhi Pop

Three thugs create a hostage situation in a diner to distract the cops from a bigger stickup.

By Matheus Ronn Leite

Trinity

A man accidentally bumps into the priest who abused him when he was a child at a local coffeeshop, sending him on a twisted journey through his past.

Dance of the Neurons

Dance of the Neurons

A ride inside the brain. 24 dancers echo the birth of neurons and synaptic connections

By Jody Oberfelder

city not city

This film is a result of anxious curiosity about what makes a city. From the vision of na�ve outsiders wandering along the streets and canals of Manchester, gathering voices and images of ever self-reproducing cityscape, to the vision of involved comme ...

By disputed point

Genius Loci

Franzi got herself involved in an amateurish bank heist by her boyfriend Stefan and her secret lover Peter. When only one of them returns to the getaway car, Franzi takes off in a haste. During her flight she takes refuge in a seemingly abandoned hou ...

By Pascal Griesshammer

UNCLE (Tonton)

Everyone has an uncle.

By Fabien Luszezyszyn

Lingua Absentia

Lingua Absentia

A paper cut-out animation about a mother and her schizophrenic daughter's severe cancer treatment and her long process to recovery.

By Jeremy Bessoff

Rhizophora

Dancing between waking and dreaming, a day seen through the eyes of eleven youngsters living with disabilities caused by Agent Orange.

By Davide De Lillis

My cousin is the Mayor of New York

My cousin is the Mayor of New York

At the beginning of 2014, a new NY Mayor has been elected: he�s Bill de Blasio, 109th New York City Mayor, the 4th of Italian-American origins. He was born in America, but his grandparents on his mother�s side were originally from Sant�Agata de Goti ...

By Vincenzo Lerose

HANGMAN

Nicholas hasn't taken his medication today.

By Joseph Colby Doler

Reykjavik Rising

Reykjavik Rising

In October 2008 Iceland was hit with one of the biggest financial disasters any nation in the world had experienced. In response, citizens took to the streets creating what is now known as the �Pots and Pans Revolution�. In response to widespread ...

By Danny Mitchell

Vida de Rainha

Document�rio sobre a cena dos Transformistas e Drag Queens no Rio de Janeiro.

By Luciana Avellar

Forest of Copper Columns

Forest of Copper Columns

In the forest of Copper Columns (the sixth level of hell according to Chinese superstition), a man performs a ritual of spiritual cleansing.

TAG

A colorful day in the life of a budding graffiti artist.

By Patrick Green

The Storyteller

The Storyteller

A loving but unstable cabbie is desperate to win back his children.

By Alex Emanuel

La Belle Folie

A desperate actress attempts to make a black-and-white french language film, in order to convince her agent that she's good enough at french to be put up for an audition. She ropes in her dad, her best friend, and her dad's friend Mr Harris. It doesn ...

By Ruth Pickett

La Petite Mort

What could possibly go wrong in a lifelong friendship between two 80 year old women? "A quiddity, out of left field comedy"

Lying Women

Reclining nude female figures from the western canon of art history escape from centuries of servitude to the colonial heteropatriarchy and form a revolution.

By Deborah Kelly

Globuline's Game

Globuline's Game

Several actual online encounters with men turned into an art experiment

By Virginie Balabaud

Cuando hay una parte de ti que no conoces, vives en permanente escisi�n. Despu�s de casi diez a�os juntos, la relaci�n de Laura y Dani est� pasando por un mal momento. Las continuas pesadillas nocturnas est�n afectando seriamente al car�cter de Dani. Sus habituales m ...

Pas de Deux

Gigi, a free spirited woman, moves through NYC as a trumpeted �being� accompanies her.

By Luz Emma Ca�as

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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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