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GAYI?

Two people, young and in love� Will their story be just one of the stories of the town? Though there is not much to do in a small Mediterranean town, the opportunities for young people seem almost limitless for love and adventure. Almost! ASLA ...

By �zay Kanat

What can two men working in a bank do, the day before the bankruptcy of the financial system they work for? They know that they have a problem to solve but they desire the saviour to appear to forgive all sins. They scratch at their tablets compute ...

By Catarina Neves

in motion

"IN MOTION " is an essay on the poetics of movement representation. forms on Movement, colours on Movement and look on Movement.

By anabela costa

Memoria

This film is inspired from the poem by Robert Browning, "Porphyria's Lover" which tells a chaotic tale in a beautiful poetic way. Hence, I decided to use this as a subject in my film where the protagonist and the girl (prophyria) are lying next ...

By Shubham Sharma

MAKING A MEMBER

MAKING A MEMBER

A young man has recently been hospitalized in an asylum. He thinks that he�s different than the others, and that he shouldn�t be there. He doesn�t take his medication and is trying to find a way to escape, as hard as he can. However, this is nothing ...

By Hesam Eslami

Bombing

An unmotivated comedian is in over her head when her estranged young daughter is unexpectedly thrust back into her life.

By Gloria Mercer

YACUNA

Gran parte del conocimiento ancestral Maya esta contenido en Chiich una anciana maya, Su nieta Yaakunah es la heredera de este saber, la base para la medicina del futuro, el pelda�o de la ecolog�a global., pero esta distra�da con su amor imposible. Chiiich ...

By Eustaquio Del Rio

A footnote in Ballet History ?

A footnote in Ballet History ?

The establishment of the art of classical ballet in Egypt under the auspices of the state during the Cold War is at the heart of an extraordinary saga, narrated here by its first pioneers. Prima ballerina Magda Saleh and fellow dancers recall the fou ...

By Hisham Abdel Khalek

A la Puta Strasse 2ndo Acto

A la Puta Strasse 2ndo Acto

Clip del documental " A la puta strasse. 2� Acto" dirigit per Anna Cervera i produ�t per De Verit� Produccions, sl.

By Anna Cervera

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The story of father and son. Father's anti-football. Boy loves football. The story of a village girl by the name "ziba" All three (father, son, daughter) their dreams.

By mojtaba kuhkan

Stroominval

Strange things happen in the small capital of Suriname, Paramaribo. Lots of black-outs lately. The board of directors of the electricity company give a press conferece to ensure the public they have everything under control. Or don't they.... A se ...

By Sander Coumou

Getting There

So what did you do yesterday? A short film.

Este podr�a ser un rescate de diversos relatos sobre el Ermita�o de Las Chilcas o un recorrido por los caminos de la voz popular. Las voces nos hablan del pasado, del presente y del futuro, aunque pareciera que hablaran de un muerto cuya solitaria vida si ...

By Pablo Rauld Fuentes

THE GROUND IS BREATHING

THE GROUND IS BREATHING

Fereshteh is a troubled woman who has aborted her four-month fetus, which has been secretly buried. She finds her buried child and reveals the secret.

By Ali Pour Issa

Prisoners of Time

Prisoners of Time

Can a broken heart transcend the limits of the mind to find what it most desires? That is the question haunting war correspondent Willis James after a grenade blast leaves him caught somewhere between heaven and hell. Wounded in body and in spirit ...

Ming... Voice of Deception

Ming... Voice of Deception

Set against the great depression of the 1930�s and beginning in the trenches of World War 1 France. Returning war veteran Daniel Partcher discovers the world he�d left behind slipping away. The story of two men in love with the same woman. One brok ...

The Percy Harris Story

The Percy Harris Story

Percy is a simple farmer, dragged by a sense of duty into a bloody war that tears him away from his home, his beloved Laurel and their two children. When the war finally ends and Percy is returning home, fate takes a cruel and unexpected turn when he ...

The Lyric Project: Season 1

The Lyric Project: Season 1

THE LYRIC PROJECT is an anthology love letter to music. We have asked people to pick their favorite song, any genre, that means the most to them. Next, make an audio recording of them reading the lyrics and submit that with an explanation of why they ...

By Ezekiel Brown

The Myth of Absolute Love vol.I, The Labyritnh

The Myth of Absolute Love vol.I, The Labyritnh

A lethargic and bored boy wakes up early in the morning, trying not to wake his girlfriend; while he's wandering through the house looking for a solution to his depression when suddenly a mysterious woman appears.

By Tommaso Frangini

Manifesto of a Defeated Poet

Manifesto of a Defeated Poet

In the midst of fascist-capitalist madness, the Foreigner (a poet/dancer with sun on his palms and blood from his dreams on his face) hovers in neon twilight with last whispers of sanity on his lips, guarding and protecting the world � forever. �F ...

By John Cumming

Urn ST. Tavern

A man walks into the woods and finds a pub called Urn St. Tavern. But this pub is no nice place. This is a music video for Fanfare Ciocarlia and Adrian Raso.

By Mattias Gordon

Ravanayana

Ramayana; the epic poem ever written by Hindu sage Valmiki which is regarded as the greatest work of ancient Indian literature. In India, till date, the teachings, the moral values and the ethics of Ramayana is taught to almost every Hindu kid since ...

By Chandni Arora

Soft Voice

A transgender (male to female) leaves his life in the city and locks himself in a house in the middle of the woods willing to be alone trying to find her new voice and life. Different people come to her door with different agendas: an ex-girlfriend, ...

By Afshin Hashemi

LIMA

As he struggles to keep the memory of the father he lost, a boy becomes a man and grows old.

By afshin roshanbakht

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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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