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Boneca de Atauro

Boneca de Atauro

'Searching for the Lost Love� is the first stop-motion film coming out the young nation of Timor-Leste. On�this non-stop laughter and action-packed film, the main character�a handmade rag doll called Ataurina�while looking for her abducted�partner, t ...

By David Palazon

Documentario sobre la vida de la poeta Leide Moreira, con registros de las transcripciones de sus poemas producidos a lo largo de m�s de 10 a�os. Instantes singulares en los cuales Leide y sus cuidadoras utilizan una tabla visual para encontrar las palabr ...

Lucas es arrastrado a una comida en la que su padre intentar� cerrar un negocio con su amigo servidor p�blico. Guiado por el aburrimiento sigue a su hermano mayor Eleazar, que comienza a hurgar entre cosas ajenas y posiblemente provocar que se metan en ...

By Jos� Pablo Escamilla

Truco in London

Truco in London

Truco (�Trickery�) is a card game played by Argentinians. You lie and cheat to deceive your opponents. This film follows a group of Argentinians living in London as they play the game. As exiles or immigrants, we see how this distinctively Argentinea ...

By Fraser McGruer

The Guy Came On Horseback

The Guy Came On Horseback

When the rural man notices that his disabled son has fallen in love with their neighbor's daughter, he decides to interfere. (An Mard Ba Asb Amad)

By Hossein Rabiei Dastjerdi

LES FRUITS DU TEMPS

LES FRUITS DU TEMPS

A large cherry tree in a garden, a family, moments of life, time passing. An ode to nature, a reflection on our changing identities.

By Matthieu Boivineau

Eat Your Heart

The life of an interior woman is the most overwhelming condition of the condition of women.

By Lara Buffard

Among Wolves

Still struggling from the aftermath of the Bosnian War, a bikers club organizes a charity for their small mountain town and defend the threatened herd of wild horses they first met on the frontline. It�s out there, with the horses, they confront thei ...

By Shawn Convey

Cegado

A man travels to an old town to attend the funeral of his last relative and to face an unfulfilled promise.

By Italo Gianti

Venice of the East

Venice of the East

A dying Jew is permitted to visit his native house in Iraq for 5 days max.

By Bahaa Alkadumy

The Deepest Man In A Swimsuit

The Deepest Man In A Swimsuit

A construction engineer and father of two children decides to freedive 111m in the Adriatic sea. Full of setbacks, this record becomes his life.

By Haidy Kancler

EVERYTHING

From a place of curiosity and amazement a Chilean filmmaker organizes an inventory of objects, characters, and situations that catch her eye

By Daniela Sabrovsky

El Pulsador

A big red pushbutton is placed in the street. What would you do if you find it? Would you press The Pushbutton?

No inverno de 2013-2014 a costa portuguesa foi fustigada por fortes tempestades e agita��o mar�tima prolongadas. As zonas costeiras foram not�cia pelas piores raz�es e, nos �ltimos anos, tem-se verificado em Portugal um avan�o progressivo do mar, pondo em ca ...

LANDING

Personagens metaf�ricas cruzam-se numa hist�ria contada atrav�s dos gestos, dos corpos e dos lugares. A vida, do princ�pio ao fim. E o grande conflito que atravessa este percurso � o da aterragem sempre incompleta: a aterragem que n�o ser� afinal mais do que a che ...

Shells

A man in the midst of a personal crisis seeks solace in an icy forest where an abandoned horse leads him into a road of multiform sea waves of color.

By Vasilios Papaioannu

La Sombra de Ararat

La Sombra de Ararat

The story goes that Noah's Ark ran aground on Mount Ararat. A film about the Armenian diaspora.

By Hugo Herrera

The Algebra of Need

The Algebra of Need

An unnamed woman in Buffalo for the weekend to shoot a movie that is never made meets a unnamed man whom she may or may not know from some time before.

By David Williams

All About My Pregnancy

All About My Pregnancy

Maya, a midwife accompanying the journey of 35 yr old Susilawati's pregnancy who was traumatized after giving birth to two children by C-section and wants the give birth normally but there is a risk of uterine rupture and maternal mortality. (Segal ...

A Corto Plazo

Retrato del migrante centroamericano que en su traves�a para llegar a EUA, decide permanecer en la espera del dinero, el amigo o el coyote; o bien mientras el inconveniente de los 9 meses de embarazo se cumpla.

By �ngela Chapa

La Gran Pelea

Helen is facing the toughest fight of her life: against her sister Maria.

Making a Difference

Making a Difference

When Reinier and Kuba discover the issues of the international voluntourism industry, they decide to shape their documentary project as a volunteer organisation. Trying to find a group of Dutch volunteers who not only share their criticism, but want ...

By Kuba Szutkowski

Musician

Young pianist Dima is preparing for an audition in a prestigious music school while his parents are separating. Can he save his family?

By Aleksei Borovikov

Oh, Brother

Psychological thriller that follows two reclusive brothers through their dysfunctional relationship. Their lives are changed forever when they confront an intruder in the night.

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Building bridges based on the
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Cine Pobre is the 100%
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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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