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The Art of Adjustment

The Art of Adjustment

THE ART OF ADJUSTMENT is about Jeff, a chiropractor who is eager to be the best. But Jeff is convicted of a crime he doesn't commit and will now have to learn how to adjust in an entirely new environment.

By Nicholas Stern

Solace

Torn apart by the confrontations in his apartment, a man seeks for any kind of solution.

By Birdjan Kadriov

Sensato Delirio

Sensato Delirio

�Sensato Delirio� relata la historia de un grupo pol�tico que busca las medidas necesarias para sacar adelante a su pa�s. Sus propuestas suenan idelaes, su actitud inquebrantable y sus intenciones perfectas. Pero como dice el dicho: �De buenas intencione ...

By papavelvazquez

Memorando

�Memorando� follows, in a non linear way, the path of an infatigable journey of our Homer for something that is dear to him. This endearing search for the verse he has lost, is also a metaphor for the memories that are already gone.

By Joana Baptista

Vanessa uma joven universit�ria estudiante de comunicaci�n Social-periodismo es invitada a realizar su primera direccion de arte em m�dio de su aventura aprenderemos de la mano de especialistas del campo audiovisual de Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, y Br ...

By Hugo Andres Quintero Rivera

Sizes of Reflection

Sizes of Reflection

Every things that happened (Action and Reaction) has a reflection, and when this repeated again and again during the time, Dimension of its REFLECTION will be spread and this will have an effect as one similar accur.

By Shayan Fathi

POR EL SENDERO

Por el sendero, es un corto que habla de la condici�n humana de la guerra, de los caminos que transita un ni�o, pasando de ser un joven del campo a un combatiente en la ilegalidad. As� mismo, muestra sus fantasmas, traumas, recuerdos, nostalgias, subjetivida ...

By Hugo Andres Quintero Rivera

Ho ho ho!

Oh, Christmas, the joyful time of the year when we are all supposed to be together! But what about the rest of the year? Do we care about our loved ones then? And how does actually the very own king of Christmas feel about this? It's important though ...

By Sandra Nelhans

Fatima

This film is a voices and icons� collection. My voice tells the story of my grandmother�s exile from Algeria to France. The film scrolls in black and white, I tell her fights for her country, for her children. Back to the present : what is my grandmo ...

Mor Mann Ke Bharam

Mor Mann Ke Bharam

Mor Mann Ke Bharam (An Illusion of my Mind) attempts to create an experiential narrative using the ambiguous and cryptic form of illusions. Entangled in the web of imagination, a struggling author pieces together the fragments merging the line bet ...

By Anadi Athaley

Vindictae

A college student is stalked by a mysterious hooded figure after a series of murders befalls downtown Manhattan

By Craig Thorogood

KYEL

A troubled man finds his own cure in the vast darkness of his room. Trying to persuade his lover to come back, he discovers a new form of therapy - his greatest ordeal, a terrible encounter he has to escape from. The horrors inside his head creeps in ...

By Arvin Kadiboy Belarmino

My Luchador

An aging Luchador has lost his purpose in life and his loving wife helps him to his destiny where he must wrestle his demons.

Rainbow: A Story About Life

Rainbow: A Story About Life

The last moments of a couple told through the colors of the rainbow.

By Eduardo Wahrhaftig

The Chair

An ageing, forgotten chair remembers its more glorious and important past.

By Gordon Robertson

Guardian Angel

One day, as Mila and her girlfriend, Erin, are returning to their home, Mila catches a glimpse of Violet, a dark but familiar stranger, in her car's rear view mirror. Like a resentful child, Mila tries to ignore Violet in the hope that she will leave ...

By Eileen Slavin

The Birthday

Two taiwanese girls, Ron and May, are living in Berlin. As Ron�s birthday approaches, the different love that they feel for each other places them in front of a meaningful change. ------- Inspired by the love poem �A Birthday,� by Christina Ros ...

By Daniela Lucato

Temptation: Beer Drama

Temptation: Beer Drama

Two men with only one beer. One of them need to get more beer, but the only rule for the other is to wait for his friend come back with other beer and drink together. Is he going to break the rule?

Break the Branch

Break the Branch

Break the Branch is a lyrical, ethereal portrait of a rural Indian girls school in lush, sensuous color. The film takes us to the village of Anupshahr, where one school challenges a community that does not believe in the education and independence of ...

By Samantha Cornwell

A single face necessarily Answers to all the names in the world - Paul Eluard

By Dominique Maury Lasmartres

I Camminatori. Resoconto audiovisivo per isole erranti

I Camminatori. Resoconto audiovisivo per isole erranti

Halfway between imaginative dimension and sound, between documentary and time-lapse, frames and sounds that inhabit the pictures of "I camminatori" (The walkers) bring into resonance the words of Testa's poems, framing each verse in a kind of instant ...

By Cesare Saldicco

Way

Middle � aged music teacher after his little son tragic death on the railways becomes a hermit. He walks in the woods shooting at targets, doesn't read letters. He is afraid of approaching train sounds. He still can't come into his son`s room. On ...

By Polina Linberg

EVA

Do you know that real vampires live among us? It is fact here in the forgotten corners of pre- So do some of legendary inventor Nikolai Tesla's descendants... and his genius lives in one of them: homeless teen waif EVA. Do you like sci-fi movies ...

Sivanada- A home away from home

Sivanada- A home away from home

The Sivananda Rehabilitation Home, Hyderabad, India. A cosy little compound. A little away from the city. A whole world away from normal life. A world of selflessness, love, warmth and courage, lit up by that beautiful ray of hope. For almost 6 deca ...

By Pranav Pingle

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Building bridges based on the
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Cine Pobre is the 100%
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NOTABLES
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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