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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

Solomon's Stone

Solomon's Stone

Hussein, a Palestinian young man, receives a letter from the Israeli post office to appear in person to receive a package! He find out that he has to pay the sum of 20000 $ US dollars in order to collect that package. Hussein�s curiosity to find out ...

By Quds Art Films

In Live ... (En Direct Sur...)

In Live ... (En Direct Sur...)

When death in live ? Fred producer of talk show prepares for the first time on a French channel, an exclusive face to face, between a CEO and a Worker...the emission will be out of control

By Lancelot Mingau

Ashamed Cupid

ASHAMED CUPID is a conceptual name of 3 short stories that stand as metaphors against atrocities that women face in different layers in the society. This film is a visual protest against it. LOVE IN THE LOUNGE is a short story of an escort. The story ...

By RISHIN BANERJEE

PARENTELL

Ana goes on a road trip with Boy , her boyfriend, to kill her father Nuno . Ana takes a trip through the Alentejo in a metaphorical journey into the deep inside of her in parallel with her quest for majority

By Jo�o Bordeira

Pyro

After the financial crisis, all of the local fire departments have been closed, leaving only a small group of volunteers to protect the city, when a dangerous pyromaniac strikes the subsystem underneath the streets.

A protest is a magnificent expression of people power, a collective realization and affirmation of courage and of genuine and direct participation, without asking anyone to represent us, without delegating anyone to speak for us.

By Pedro Soares

Alfonsina

By Valeria Tochi

Atuel, la memoria del agua

Atuel, la memoria del agua

For more than sixty years, the residents of the west of La Pampa have been suffering a process of desertification of their region. After the construction of the dam �El Nihuil� in San Rafael, Mendoza, in 1947, the Atuel river�s flow was interrupted b ...

By Valeria Tochi

Here Iran

A down on his luck Iranian father will do anything to find the money for his daughters hospital treatment - even sell himself.

By Hassan Nazer

Dirty Work

A women who needs a "job" done quick hires two Professionals.

By stephen broekhuizen

Offline

Living a virtual, perpetually "connected" life, George has no human connection, until one night when a power outage forces him to ask for help from a stranger.

By Roberto Drilea

ONE WEEKEND

My story as a girl 18 years old told thorough a boy : A reclusive teenage boy, suffering from identity crisis, discovers his father is not his real father and seeks out to meet his biological father for the first time.

By diana cignoni

A Saga (Una Saga)

A Saga (Una Saga)

Leo, Ricardo, Marcos, To�o and Roberto are brothers and all of them played for Real Madrid, known as "The Azcona", five brothers, one dream. Twenty years later they look back to those glorious days

Suicide or Lulu and Me in a World Made for Two

Suicide or Lulu and Me in a World Made for Two

Jorge has a camera that can duplicate and preserve reality, and a pair of glasses that can inject memories into the viewer's mind.

By Christian Carroll

Nuclear Hope

What will Canada do with its enormous stockpile of deadly radioactive waste? Currently, many small communities throughout Ontario are considering burying it underneath their boarders and close to Lake Huron and Lake Superior. When local residents lea ...

By Colin Scheyen

...und Exitus

A modern, surreal fairytale about 29-year-old Werner Lenz who, after trying to commit suicide, finds himself on a supernatural journey with personalized Death. Along the road they witness oil spills and car accidents, war prisons and hospitals... and ...

By Oliver Ziegler

Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution

Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution

A short film about the conflict in Syria as experienced by a 32 year old rebel commander, Mowya, and a 24 year old female journalist, Nour, in Aleppo, Syria. The film clearly and concisely shows why Syrians are fighting for their freedom, told throug ...

By Matthew VanDyke

SUGAR

A couple walk through the streets in Paris in the evening. They enter a caf�. There, the young woman recognizes an older lady unwrapping a sugar cube. Because of this, she remembers, how she collected sugar cubes at home in Sarajevo. But then, the war ...

By Oliver Langewitz

One World - Different People (Alle anderen sind nicht gleich anders)

One World - Different People (Alle anderen sind nicht gleich anders)

Hostility toward strangers, Xenophobia, Racism can be found at many places and in a lot of different ways in Germany. The film sharpens an image of migrant`s experiences with racism. Hereby it is searching for answers, how people can face discriminat ...

By Oliver Langewitz

Maria and Radu are a couple in love planning their wedding. But there is a secret between them that will chance their lives forever. Based on the short story of the same title by Alicia S�rieux.

By Oliver Langewitz

LATE REPORT (EL INFORME TARDIO)

LATE REPORT (EL INFORME TARDIO)

This experimental film is a critique of human apathy regarding our planet� Climate is changing, but nobody seems to hear the thousands of studies which demonstrate this, we are turning a deaf ear � Unfotunately, life on Earth is heading towards an un ...

NUMBSKULL

NUMBSKULL Two old men, the curse of William Shakespeare and a talking beetle. NUMBSKULL Dark, trippy and distinctive, this B&W movie, stylishly directed by John Humphreys, weaves a haunting tale of dysfunctional ageing, funny, tense and touching. W ...

By john humphreys

Searching For Nepal

Searching For Nepal

Searching For Nepal chronicles the emotional and cultural journey of a former Peace Corps Volunteer as he returns to Nepal, seeking out his adopted family in the aftermath of Nepal�s Maoist civil war. Filmed entirely on location, this exotic, soul-s ...

By Phil Deutschle

Tainted Rewind

A first encounter between a dangerous young man and an unsuspecting young woman.

By Marvalee Peart

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Building bridges based on the
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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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