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Salih Cihan Özalp
Orangel Lugo
Rodrigo Sena
Esteban Santana Guerrero
Anton
Irina Ianovskaia
Eloy Gurucharri

OS XVI 2018

Official Selection XVI Cine Pobre Film Festival 2018

Becoming Visible

Becoming Visible

This documentary puts a face on the experience of those below the surface during offshore seismic surveys, and establishes a truth away from the power and culture of impunity in oil corporates and government administration.

By Janet Solomon

Yuna's Lunch

A young woman delivers prepared lunch box meals and meets some pretty weird customers but Anthony is stranger than most.

By Myeongjin Park

Chen Gao

A shy-nese boy comes to Mexico to work in his uncle's restaurant.

By Antonio Rotunno

The Stag's Mirror

The Stag's Mirror

A construct of interlaced imagery and text about the indigenous people of Chiapas, Mexico, that establishes a break with progressive documentary filmmaking.

By Robin Starbuck

Retrokausal

A mysterious object shaped like a human heart leads a group of people through a time traveling adventure that will entangle their lives forever.

By Shahin Ganji

En Modo Silencio

En Modo Silencio

Manolo, a miner by family tradition and pensioner at 50, is addicted to gambling and other dangerous, expensive habits.

By Teresa Marcos

Historia y Montaje

Historia y Montaje

La Historia como ciencia social, como g�nero literario, como campa�a pol�tica, como escritura colectiva, como pante�n, como c�rcel, como mito. El Montaje como disciplina narrativa, como construcci�n, como destrucci�n, como b�squeda de una identidad, como protesta, co ...

The Marvin Case

The Marvin Case

The disappearance of a capricious cat leads to the biggest financial crisis in history.

By Lewis Eizykman

THEOX

The aged peasants of an imaginary land are forced to obey & transform their earth into a golden kingdom by adding a magic fertilizer to their crops. Only a fearless little girl can save them.

By Giorgos Nikopoulos

Mother

The true story about a 3 years old boy who was abandoned at a landfill by his mother but later finds the strength to forgive her.

By Michail Komlev

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A man is searching for the last picture of his life.

By Christoph Rahm

BLISS

A detached & introverted woman in her early 30s keeps finding Post-It notes with countdown numbers stuck on her door, triggering a series of events that will shatter her mental health.

By Christos Pitharas

The Fifth Sun

A documentary on Wanderlust, the need to travel and to feel like a vagabond. For two months two filmmakers accompany their friend Panu on a road trip from Finland to Australia, chasing a total solar eclipse, but then something goes wrong.

By Pecci & Maggi

Mumpsimus and Halcyon Discord

Mumpsimus and Halcyon Discord

Exploring the connections between mental illness and homelessness among young people, challenging common misrepresentations.

The Harvest

Manually sowing and harvesting vegetables 12 hours a day under the scorching sun; they call their employer �Lord�, experience oppression and all sorts of violence. Gurwinder comes from Punjab, for years he�s been working as a farm hand in Agro Ponti ...

By Andrea Mariani

SIDE-B

Wang Li-Sheng meets a Spanish girl online and decides to leave everything behind to live his love story in Spain. Things don�t go as expected/ He ends up with no girlfriend, no money and no passport, so he has to get by as an illegal immigrant in a c ...

By David Y��ez

The Morning After

The Morning After

A backpacker awakes at dawn in a rice field outside Siem Reap with no knowledge of how he got there, what happened the night before or where his girlfriend is.

By Leanne Mangan

Ideal Para Parejas

Ideal Para Parejas

Ready to Start a New Life Together a Young Couple Faces Dissimilitude.

By José Luís Cubillo Frndz.

Kupal

A hunter - taxidermist faces an unexpected challenge.

By Kazem Mollaie

Breathless

The story of Larry, a middle aged Black man, whose trip to the bodega for coffee and cigarettes leads to his unwarranted death.

By Anaiis Cisco

In a remote area of China a young man of fading youth finds out that his long-lost girlfriend has returned home..

By Hanjian Liang

Pushkar Puran

The biggest enemy of an artist is his own past.

By Kamal Swaroop

Instrument of Change: Street Piano

Instrument of Change: Street Piano

Acoustic pianos that were once at the heart of our community lives are being dumped. Thousands go to landfill every year. In this film we see how some get rescued and are put on the street for anyone to play. Street pianos become a magnet for a rich ...

By Maureen Ni Fiann

Kokolampy

A documentary adventure about man�s romantic yearning. In the beginning there was the egg. Amongst the belongings left behind by my granduncle was an egg of an elephant bird�one of the last living dinosaurs, extinct on Madagascar possibly as late ...

By Hajo Schomerus

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Building bridges based on the
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inexpensive as pencil & paper

Cine Pobre is the 100%
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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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XXIII Cine Pobre Fim Festival 2025 / animation / documentary / experimental / music / african / underground / road trip

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