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Sonar Baran Pakhi

Sonar Baran Pakhi

Royal family members disapprove of a young girl humming folk ballads, warning her that nobody would marry her if she continued to practice the songs of the masses. A Rajbonshi language film from Assam, India.

By Bobby Sarma Baruah

On a Sunday

A woman puts up a fight against cultural norms that define her.

By Dagomir Kaszlikowski

Diamantis

Six adventurers decide to leave the capitalist world to go live on an exotic island in Northeast Brazil where they will discover an inescapable reality: Who can survive a perfect paradise?

By Pablo Lapadula

Off With Their Heads

Off With Their Heads

They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there�s any one left alive!

By disputed point

El Dia de la Virgen

El Dia de la Virgen

Due to ethnic unrest the government has decided to divide a city into 3 zones.

From being an industrial neighborhood dedicated to the textile trade, the Sant Pere barrio has evolved into an arts and crafts neighborhood where new workshops, co-working spaces and self-production shops open every day, giving it a new identity of t ...

By Artur Akhmetov

La Bodega del Toro Navarro

La Bodega del Toro Navarro

El Torero Navarro naci� en Tafalla el 21 de enero del 1903. Lo llamaban el Leon de Navarra. Estuvo locamente enamorado de su mujer. "La Mas Cara Trianera", es personaje ficticio, de una Bailaora Sevillana que no existi� y que es solo producto de una inspir ...

By Reyes Caballero

A mom picks up her young son from swimming lessons and finds out he molested a girl his age.

By Ely Chevillot

SANTA TERESA

Santa Teresa, a city of 1.5 million people in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, a hub for drug trafficking with 300 unsolved murders of young women.

By Capuzzi & Dainotti

Zopilotes del Nuevo Mundo

Zopilotes del Nuevo Mundo

Cortometraje documental que narra sobre un tipo de buitre que solo se encuentran en nuestro continente latinoamericano, usando recursos de sonidos bizarre y tomas dram�ticas, narrando de manera metaf�rica a los empleados del proletariado en Honduras, haci ...

By Josue Orellana

Where Love Lives There Are No Losses

Where Love Lives There Are No Losses

She had lived a long and happy life feeling both the sweets of achievements and bitterness of losses. Love had been steadily the only thing by her side. Love to Life in it's all manifestations. Love to children, to grandsons and above all- shared lo ...

By Teymur Daimi

Prison Sisters

The distinct journey of two young women released from prison in Afghanistan. As women and former inmates Sara and Najibeh have no rights whatsoever. Sara's uncle intends to kill her an attempt to reclaim his honor in their small village. Fearing for ...

By Nima Sarvestani

Desde el d�a en que Sof�a decide asumir su lesbianismo p�blicamente todo cambia. Tras la supuesta aceptaci�n de sus padres, se esconde un plan para reconducir a su hija a la heterosexualidad. Y tras la aparente fachada de ternura y comprensi�n de su novia Palo ...

By Crist�bal Arteaga Rozas

Callback

Grace is an unknown actress in Paris and just turned forty. After an important audition she receives a callback. The meeting is to take place in a hotel room at midnight.

By Kartik Singh

Lurna

Lurna, A Young African Woman Looking For A Better Life Soon Wishes To Return Home

Land Voices, a Voyage on the Peace Boat

Land Voices, a Voyage on the Peace Boat

Land voices, a voyage on board Peace Boat. This documentary wants to share voices from local leaders from southern hemisphere countries. Carlos Garc�a, the director, was part of the International Section of Volunteers on board Peace Boat in the 86th G ...

By Carlos Garcia Hdez.

Brown Willy

Michael and Pete have been best mates for over 35 years. After a drink & drug fueled night in Bodmin Moor the two find themselves disorientated & struggling with monumental hangovers, the unforgiving environment and each other.

By Brett Harvey

Clean Hands

A corrupt head master of a school in Thailand learns a lesson of his life when a good kid is killed by him.

By Disspong Sampattavanich

ALG-MRS

To visit his brother once a month in a Marseille retirement home an Algerian man becomes a grocery mule.

By Jaad Gaillet

Dogs & Tacos

As 17 year old Alma Panteleon begins her after-school shift at Taquer�a El Cihualteco in South-Central L.A. an ex-bf shows up to drop off his younger brother, police on his tail.

By Steven Bachrach

For the past four years G�nter Steinmeyer has shared his short and often insightful impressions of his elective home city of Berlin in his blog.

By Thomas Schumacher

Made in Iraq

A young guy opens his eyes to find himself lonely in an unknown place�Does not remember where he was, or who brought him here, and who is he exactly� He finds a recorded cassette in his bag that contains his diaries, so he tries to start searching ab ...

Hassan in Wonderland

Hassan in Wonderland

The children of Iraq are growing up with violence. We meet little Hassan and his friends who are innocently playing together when suddenly one of them finds a real gun. This provokes a conflict within the group that is either going to break off their ...

By Ali Kareem Obaid

JWAN

Jwan's whole village was slaughtered by a terrorist group. She was taken as a slave along with her younger brother. Raped and tortured by the leader during captivity. If she rejects this, her rapist and cell guard accuse her of committing incest, whi ...

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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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