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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

An old street vendor generates a world of fantasy in which he lives to hide his solitude together with his dog, Agust�n. What he does not know is that his fantasy has transformed into his disease.

By The Farandulers

Marasmus

Fragments of light & shade in the lives of a truck driver spiraling downward, his caring wife and their oblivious daughter.

Little Thing

A tiny creature arrives in a big empty city and searches for companionship

Jacqueline

Having trouble with his marriage, a drunk driver finds the path to solving his hopeless life via a developing relationship with his personal GPS

teleVision Quest

teleVision Quest

An experimental short about apathy, obsession and television.

By Terence Cover

No One Is Watching

No One Is Watching

Matt leaves Detroit to live with his old friend Joe in Chicago. Unbeknown to Joe, Matt has quietly been struggling with schizophrenia for the past year. When his fiancee sends him a breakup letter, Matt falls into despair and begins to fear he is bei ...

By middlebranchprod.

99 out of 100

After her father�s death Romina (22) is forced to come back to her hometown and to struggle with her loss in the company of Natalia (38) her only sister. The disagreements about he new responsibilities and future decisions and her mom's crisis becau ...

By Luisina Pozzo Ardizzi

The Last Summer

The Last Summer

A tightly knit group of friends hangs out for the last time before heading off to different colleges.

By Alex Zajicek

The Love Archive

The Love Archive

Ofir and Tomer want to become parents. Before moving in into a new flat, Ofir digitizes letters and photos from his past loves in order to leave his past behind.

By Ofir Feldman

Ourglass

Two siblings discover a mysterious hourglass in the woods that improves cognitive function and forever changes their lives.

By Alex Zajicek

Selfie With It

A girl takes an unsettling walk through the woods.

By Alex Zajicek

Santas of Cochin

Santas of Cochin

A journey of two kids and Santa Clause along the streets of Fortkochi.

Alimuom ng Kahapon (Shadows of Yesterday)

Alimuom ng Kahapon (Shadows of Yesterday)

Nathan, a lifestyle photographer who was sent as a reliever to cover a rally for the newspaper he is working for. His attention was caught by Emman, a student activist, who was rallying against tuition fee increase. Nathan developed an interest on Em ...

By Julius Lumiqued

DocuDrama that portrays the devotion to the Saint Rita of Cascia in Redemption-CE, inside Brazil. Devotees make use of the saint of impossible causes for curing their ailments. Some actresses interpret devotees who would not appear in the film for n ...

By C�ssio Ara�jo

Chasing Bonnie & Clyde

Chasing Bonnie & Clyde

Chasing Bonnie & Clyde When Texas gets smart-on-crime Famous for its numerous prisons, Texas is becoming a carceral system reference by implementing rehabilitation programs. Several teenagers' journeys to get a 2d chance are paralleled to the ou ...

By Olivier Lambert

It's Me

have locked myself in my apartment for half of a year by the time I made this experimental film. I was trapped by limited time and space. I felt panic, helpless at the time, but never be afraid.

Life Is Good

It's a rainy day, a young man in his 20s opens his black umbrella and then walks toward his old car. When he pushes the button on the key to open the car door, his car suddenly becomes a fancy car, but he looks older. He is too excited to realize tha ...

10,13

After an accident in the street, Odysseas transfers with his mind back to his house, where an unexpected visitor is waiting and asking for his help. This mind-tricky vision arises from his sinful past, when he accidentally killed a man, who attacked ...

By Pavlos Ventouris

Lunes de Cosecha

Lunes de Cosecha

Ana y Pablo dos hermanos que trabajan recogiendo la cosecha de un sembrad�o. Pablo con su inocencia intenta mantener contenta a Ana, a pesar de la terrible situaci�n que est�n viviendo, mientras el campesino har� todo lo posible para que cumplan con su trabaj ...

By Mar�a Laura Reina

ReVeil

On his daughters first day wearing her Hijab, a mysterious stranger changes the life of a single parent refugee when an accident occurs on the way to her first day of school in their new country

By Richard Verlaan

This script is based on a true story when the directer/writer was a little kid. The main character of the film, the grandpa, was disabled. He cannot do so many things by himself. So grandma always takes good care of him until she is sick. Several ...

The Journal

A man discovers old journals from 40 years earlier

By Derek Burrows

The New Boy

Two young sisters watch Sam, their new teenage neighbour from afar. They track his movements and seek information on him. When they finally meet him 10 year-old Dani strikes up a friendship and stops her spying, preferring to enjoy his company. But t ...

By Christine Lalla

Running Shadow & Frozen Body

Running Shadow & Frozen Body

I want to express the culture shock I had after I came to the U.S. As an international student, I always felt something was wrong, but I couldn't say what it was. Maybe because of different languages or cultures, I just wanted to tell the audience my ...

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Building bridges based on the
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Cine Pobre is the 100%
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culture and capabilities
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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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