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Mahtab Mansour & Alex
Nathan Le Graciet
Fatoumata Coulibaly
Br�si �lason
Frank Erftemeier
Andres Villasenor
Cortese, Fenucci & Ve
Marta Koszowy
Bartosz Sikorski
Guiu Vallv�
Gar�a Lazza
Santi Planet
Hemantkumar Mahale
Ulysse Dikoum� Alechinsky
Jos� Luis Ducid
Francisco Varvar�
Sylwia Kubus
Julian Reboratti
Afshin Eisaei
Dash Kolos

OS XV 2017

Official Selection XIV Cine Pobre Film Festival 2017

And The Moon Stands Still

And The Moon Stands Still

The presence of the moon affects all under its glow. The film explores the lunar cycle and the energies invoked by its radiance.

By Yulia Ruditskaya

Productive Frustration

Productive Frustration

A short experimental film investigating an artists� ongoing, everyday, both conscious and subconscious struggle to remain creatively productive in an exasperating atmosphere that has robbed her of certain sociopolitical conditions that used to define ...

By Tara Najd Ahmadi

Landscapes

A small group of transgender friends lives in rural Thailand coping with that peculiar feeling that they will never be able to reach any level of happiness.

By Vincent Fournier

New Neighbors

How far will a Mother go to protect her children?

Babylondon

This documentary reveals an invisible side of society in London, a city where reality and illusion get muddled up. Young immigrants from different countries, share ideas, beliefs and experiences which connects us with a universe full of questions wh ...

By Andres Roccatagliata

The Drought

A vile selfish farmer is being foreclosed on his ranch. The causes of his misfortune are the drought and his alcoholism. He kills his wife and sells his daughters into prostitution.

By Adri�n Fabrissin

In the heart of Brazilian Amazon, the survival of an ancient indigenous tribe is seriously threatened. Bainaw�, a leadership member of the Huni Kuin, speaks directly to the nawa," white man", about the urgent preservation of the forest where his people ...

By Danilo Arenas

Guardians of the Aegean

Guardians of the Aegean

A 5 year odyssey through the islands of the Cyclades, where artisan fishermen struggle against industrial overfishing that has depleted this once rich sea.

By Omiros Evangelinos

The Servant

A bug becomes a Servant. Servant becomes a master. (Pishkhedmat)

By Mohadeseh Pilehvarian

LUCY

Imagine being born in the wrong body. Everyday you're fighting. Against society, stigma and yourself. All you want is acceptance. Lucy's story is one of searching for her true self in a world that's not quite ready.

By Melinte Reitzema

RASHEED

A journalist unravels the untold story of her uncle who was killed during the Israeli invasion of south Lebanon in 1982.

Sisak

A and Z are as far apart as their locations in the alphabet. They come together purely by chance. In India Homosexuality is still a Crime.

By Faraz Ansari

The Drinking Life

The Drinking Life

A community of drinkers in an early-morning bar

By Kenneth J Harvey

???R?

One of the shortest subway systems in the world, without the crowds of passengers and intrusive advertising, retains the purity of an underground retro-futuristic city.

By Lera & Oleksandr

TETA: A Nursing Mother Tells Her Story

TETA: A Nursing Mother Tells Her Story

Alexandra Hidalgo tells the story of her journey nursing her youngest son, Santiago, for twenty-two months. Teta uses Hidalgo�s narration and the footage shot by her husband to portray the ups and downs of nursing a baby as a working mother of two. A ...

By Alexandra Hidalgo

Little Wound's Warriors

Little Wound's Warriors

As Pine Ridge Indian Reservation faces the lasting effects of inter-generational trauma as well as a recent teen suicide epidemic, the voices of Little Wound High School students rise up in hope through their traditions, language, and the Lakota warr ...

By Seth McClellan

Tanzonk

A human warrior falls in love with his robot nurse but will the world accept their bond?

By Sasha Svirsky

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire

Britain transformed from a colonial into a global financial power as financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions controlled by The City of London capturing wealth from across the globe and hiding it in an obscure web of island ...

By Michael Oswald

TUKTUQ

A cameraman is hired by a Government Agency to document the Inuit community of Nunavuk. During his time there he acquires a deep knowledge of the survival economy of the people and the richness of the natural territory. He is informed that his work w ...

By Robin Aubert

Istanbul Notes

�You either lack something or have too much of it to leave where you live...� Leaving home and making music around the world. From Montreal, Sofia, New York, Salives and Palermo, five stories hit the road, travel the world and meet in ?stanbul.

By �zlem Sar?y?ld?z

In The Family Circle

In The Family Circle

A mother has lost faith in her only son who refuses to share her beliefs. Not all stories have a happy ending.

By Vladimir Bayandin

Babylon What Then?

Babylon What Then?

Babylon stood for globalization, war, consumerism and environmental degradation. What else is new?

Umbral

Late one night five people cross the threshold of a crime scene after a young thief was lynched.

By Claudio Perrin

DIALING

A mother will not accept her soldier son's death and tries to call him with a cell phone she does not know how to use.

By Bahaa Alkadumy

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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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XXIII Cine Pobre Fim Festival 2025 / animation / documentary / experimental / music / african / underground / road trip

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