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MALA Apuntes de una ciudad

MALA Apuntes de una ciudad

Sacrifice, illusions, unhappy lives and hope for the future. Different lives in a Peruvian city.

By Miguel �ngel Barroso G.

(In)Ability to Choose

(In)Ability to Choose

A mosaic of experiences about forced emigration. Fragments of five personal narrations reveal the existence of a common story, independent from time and space, and establish at first sight invisible link between protagonists of different generation ...

Het verdriet zal niet eeuwig duren

Het verdriet zal niet eeuwig duren

The most beautiful paintings are those which you dream about when you lie in bed smoking a pipe, but which you never paint.

By Alexei Dmitriev

Poop On Poverty

Poop On Poverty

Every winter Pushkar in India holds a seven-day religious festival and the world's biggest camel fair. With around 25,000 camels in town, you can expect a lot of camel droppings. And these droppings provide an opportunity -- a chance for poor famili ...

By Vijay S. Jodha

Security

An Indian and a Pakistani try to resolve their differences as they guard an empty construction site in the Dubai desert.

Trolleyology

In a not-so-distant future... Sandra is the host of Trolleyology, a reality prank show that judges the morality of the �contestants�, through elaborate fake life or death situations. Naturally, she�s a woman with many enemies, with a long backlog ...

By Natalia Chernaya

SASHA

Sasha is an eight-year-old boy who lives in Ukraine with his mum and five siblings. Their everyday life is involved in misery, poverty and even further complicated by the current war in the country. Sasha leaves Ukraine in order to live during a sum ...

By F�lix Colomer

Severina, a ten year old girl who lives in a narrow alley in a favela in Recife, sees something completely different from the slums people see in movies and on TV: a fairy tale of conflicts and romances between kingdoms and princes, where dragons mig ...

Two adolescent girls spend a weekend by themselves at home, in the absence of their parents. Using a mobile phone application that merges recording images captured with live interaction with other apps, both record all moments of that private party, ...

By Aldo Pedrosa

Shabes Morgen

Dark-Comedy about the fulfillment of the late Moti Vaserman's dying wish: to be buried by the sea. His sons, Amihai and Avi fulfill the mission and retrieve his body at night. On their way they encounter difficulties that remind them why they're not ...

What are you hiding

What are you hiding

Sound evokes emotion. We don't listen until we trust. An experiment.

By Nikhil Agnihotri

There Is Room for Land & Sea

There Is Room for Land & Sea

Two people look for room in their lives for each other.

Baobhan Sith

A filmmaker and her estranged daughter are coerced by an island laird to try and remove a family curse.

By David Hutchison

Blue Jean Blues

Blue Jean Blues

Krishna( fall into depression after a series of tragedies making him withdraw from his friends, family and colleagues. His best friend and his mother try to reason with him.

By Nitin Mahajan

Kurdistan-Kurdistan

Kurdistan-Kurdistan

Delil Dilanar, one of the greatest singer in Kurdistan The 90s he was forced to leave his homeland and exile in Europe. After 20 years of exile there during a concert in New York he announced his return to the roots. Once in Kurdistan he falls into ...

By Bulent Gunduz

Orphans [a requiem]

Orphans [a requiem]

A mix of historical documentary and fiction that offers a rare glimpse of North Korean life. It's about the sometimes hidden trauma and forgotten casualties of the Korean War, and the birds that seem to echo that history across the peninsula.

By Joel Elliott

Beneath the wide wide Heaven

Beneath the wide wide Heaven

Pier Paolo Pasolini plays the role of the director as conveyor of human experience in this experimental documentary film. The director is constantly watching, thinking, and feeling the world events around him as he films the Passion of Jesus as well ...

By Hisham Bizri

Parrhesia: Obligation to Speak the Truth

Parrhesia: Obligation to Speak the Truth

An Estonian parrhesiastes Einar Laigna, a former high ranking officer of the army, who has retired to an abandoned medieval Monastery. Using the partially ruined monastery as a launchpad for his stinging and ironical attacks on the insanity and irrat ...

raccoon

Short Film on How a Relationship Evolves. Starting From The End.

Lathe Joshi

Globalization is devastating Lathe Joshi's economic independence and sense of identity in India's collision course between skilled labour and automatization.

By Mangesh Joshi

Isolated - Busanfornia Calling

Isolated - Busanfornia Calling

Three friends from different cultures and countries working as English teachers in South Korea. And then, worst case scenario.

Oedipus

A boy named Lily must live out the rest of his unnatural life in limbo, reliving the same day for eternity. Unfortunately for Lily, it's with his enamored grandfather.

By Roxanne Bordeaux

Empty Space

An overweight young man takes refuge at his grandmother"s cabin in rural Protection, IL, to bury the years of being bullied and feeling rejected.

Marianne

A young Nigerian man travels to a remote, African pentecostal church with his ailing wife.

By Tomisin Adepeju

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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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