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Interiors and Exteriors

Interiors and Exteriors

Multiplicity within a Muslim community & the passage of people through a single frame documents Bangladesh�s interiors & exteriors in the microcosm of Islamic practices & segregation

By Ashique Mostafa

Lecciones de Vuelo

Lecciones de Vuelo

Un joven perseverante de 17 a�os es aceptado en la escuela de pilotos de la Fuerza A�rea. Su sue�o de volar y escapar de su precaria realidad se ve interrumpido por el embarazo de su novia y su esforzada madre.

By Daniela Olivares Herrera

Cul-De-Sac

Parents living at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac discover a listening device inside their son�s teddy bear.

By Brenden Hubbard

A battered wife seeks to save herself and her daughter. Emmur�e dans son silence et rong�e par les violences conjugales, une femme pousse � chercher � sauver sa peau et celle de sa fille.

By Ngulungu King Pierre

Bang Bang

A woman looks at her torn childhood pictures. A man approaches her to have sex. A metaphor?

By Gulsum Guler Ozen

500 years ago Gypsies left India and migrated to various parts of Europe before settling down in Andalusia. Their encounter with this foreign soil was culturally explosive, giving birth to Flamenco.

By Bijoyini Chatterjee

Abiye

A drama unfolds among embroiderers in a low-income district of Istanbul.

By Do?u? Alg�n

LIMIT

A disabled adolescent struggles to inform his neighbors of a tragedy.

By Javad Daraei

El Cisne

Years after experiencing severe gender discrimination a Mexican trans woman emigrant prepares for a visit to her hometown Mixquiahuala, Hidalgo, to confront her family about her gender identity.

By Daniel Ch�vez Ontiveros

Tierra y Libertad: Anarquistas en la Frontera

Tierra y Libertad: Anarquistas en la Frontera

Documental que aborda el mito del filibusterismo en la frontera de Baja California, M�xico en donde un grupo de revolucionarios anarquistas dan inicio en 1911 a la revoluci�n Mexicana. Con material filmico de 1912, entrevistas a historiadores,intelectuale ...

By Carlos Altamirano

Film deals with the mother-daughter relationship over three generations of women embodied by my grandmother, who lived in Reunion Island, my mother, living in Paris where I also grew up, and myself, narrator of the film. It�s a powerful story about s ...

By Olivia Martinez de La Grange

IN ABSENTIA

An anthology series of contemporary, dark folk tales consisting of drama, science fiction, horror and a psychological thriller focusing on characters confronted with the absence of both the material and intangible.

El Hombre Que Siempre Hizo Su Parte

El Hombre Que Siempre Hizo Su Parte

Dr. Rota, un negociante, cient�fico y escritor de 78 a�os, est� lleno de conflictos e ilusiones de fama. Sortea los obst�culos para publicar su libro y rodearse de gente, buscando el reconocimiento. Despu�s de perder casi todo contacto con el mundo, intenta sal ...

Crazy Breakers

On a small Mexican Caribbean island a group of boys earns their keep by breakdancing every day.

By Juan Garc�a Berrueta

Nunca Es Tarde

M�s all� de los raps, beats, y el hip hop mexicano este es un viaje por el carril de la memoria de esta banda aparte y la b�squeda de un sonido siempre cambiante.

By Ramiro Medina Flores

Roohangiz

A Persian s�ance gone wrong triggers a humorous disaster.

By Elmira Bagherzadeh

Dogged

If you found out what lurks in the woods on a remote tidal island would your life spiral out of control? Meet Sam.

By Richard Rowntree

Framed

In an anonymous police station, F.K. asks the Law for help in the attempt to report the abuses he has been through: his birth, his formation, his forced work. He will end up stuck in an endless nightmare. A noir animated short-film investigating ...

By Jurgen Ure�a

El Camino al Alba

El Camino al Alba

Juanita, enfermera a cargo de un albergue para pacientes terminales decide acompa�arlos a enfrentar su soledad mientras esperan su partida final y la esperanza de una mejor vida. Juanita, a nurse in charge of a shelter home for terminal patients, dec ...

By Jos� Antonio Jim�nez Esquivel

The Man Who Wasn't Here

The Man Who Wasn't Here

In a far far away planet called SINEMA , a movie star that is a 'STILL IMAGE' wants to move like a 'MOVIE' again.

Newly Single

Dumped by his girlfriend Astor finds himself alone and prowling; looking for love, sating his lust, and searching through the darkness of downtown Los Angeles.

By Adam Christian Clark

Valentina

Valentina has to fight the system after her daughter is taken hostage.

By Jorge Xolalpa Jr.

The Homesick Girl in Beijing ? ?

The Homesick Girl in Beijing ? ?

A Taiwanese girl works alone in Beijing, day in, day out, slowly falling into a listless state.

By Wang Pei-Wei

A Few Knots Away

A Few Knots Away

Unsustainability forces several families to abandon their island home.

By Mansour Forouzesh

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Building bridges based on the
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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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