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Sa Pag-uwi

A college student goes home for the long weekend with his deaf bestfriend, meeting his younger brother with autism after a long time of separation.

By Juan Carlos Ojano

Those Drawn Alive

Those Drawn Alive

Every autumn I get heavily moody. This is caused by the loss of the light. Last summer I heard a tune called " the House of the Rising Sun ". At once I was on a wintry road, with a very low light - and having an impossible opponent against me - Le ...

By Jukka-Pekka Jalovaara

Le Moral des Troupes

Le Moral des Troupes

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By Marcia Romano & Beno�t Sabatier

Can we survive the silences of the past ?

By Nathalie Blomme

Die Toten reiten schnell

Die Toten reiten schnell

In a not too distant future a young girl travels through an abandoned country - the forbidden frontier - and meets people who have also an obscure life history. Whether a hitchhiker who has prescribed the very rationality or a hermit with various men ...

By Lukas V�th

2 Dialects 1 Harmony Creative Mood

2 Dialects 1 Harmony Creative Mood

A traveler who is candidate player and who pursues his guide master to reach �Creative Mood� of Stanislavski in seeking the way of producing which is the mother lode of the art for this cause; a master who may lead him the way with his art and experi ...

By Najiba Abbasova

not so easy - interviewing three Iranians

not so easy - interviewing three Iranians

'Not so easy � interviewing three Iranians' is a conceptual film that builds on the expectations of the audience and plays with an unpleasant impossibility to identify with any involved party. The resulting mistrustful distance and the disappointing ...

By Alberto Ruano

For The Evening

For The Evening

A young man knocks on a rich young lady's door one evening claiming to be an escort hired for her. After initially sending him away, she invites him back to cook dinner for her - as the evening progresses they speak and fall in love. However after sp ...

By David Wayman

Kratzbaum

Posing people. Fluffy cats beeing pulled apart. Underlaid with a mixture of dubstep and electro. Two parallel worlds are colliding with "Kratzbaum". The documentary musicvideo observes the everyday life at different cat shows around Germany and count ...

HE WAS A FRIEND OF HIM | ?? ??? ??? ??????

HE WAS A FRIEND OF HIM | ?? ??? ??? ??????

After failing to commit his first murder, an aspiring serial killer decides that the most rational way to get started is to kill a friend who totally trusts you. This is how a lonely mentally unstable guy meets a naive next-door boy.

What The Water Gave Him

What The Water Gave Him

The film starts with Andrew and Juliana, a longtime couple, in bed. Andrew seems estranged and distant, when Juliana asks if he is awake, a fact he hides from her. Juliana gets up and leaves the room. Later, Andrew is taking a bath while Juliana gets ...

By Asia Doubikin

Sports Around The World - Mission Rwanda

Sports Around The World - Mission Rwanda

The NGO �Sports Around the World��s program covers several african countries: Cameroon, Swaziland, Tanzania and Rwanda. Since the association was founded they�ve built multiple basketball courts and launched a number of sports programs in villages in ...

By Andrea Lodovichetti

Hepgece

At this endless night when the sun does not come up and the darkness prevailed Woman and Man search for solution in leaving their social life, property and civilization as we know it, and going to the nature. They depart after a friendly meal which h ...

By Fatma Belkis Isik

A group of junior high school pupils from a small town in a remotee corner of Poland discover a place where 800 local Jews were murdered during World War II. Today both the place, and the tragic story seem totally forgotten. Teenagers reach the last ...

La Mano Invisible

La Mano Invisible

Don Pablo, director general de una empresa de producci�n, recibe en su despacho a �ngel, delegado sindical de la empresa. Discuten sobre los despidos realizados por la misma para externalizar la producci�n. �ngel culpa a la empresa de lo ocurrido a su prim ...

By Marco Antonio Robledo

Da un capo all'altro - Viaggio nel mosaico lampedusano

Da un capo all'altro - Viaggio nel mosaico lampedusano

From an end (Capo Grecale) to another (Capo Ponente), it�s a journey through Lampedusa, the southernmost island of Italy, catching its wonderful landscapes and its multi-faceted aspects that for centuries have made it a crossroad for different people ...

By Michele Bellio

PUPS

A documentary based on Javier Garc�a Roche, a boxer and owner of a junkyard, who works with young men of impoverished neighborhoods in Barcelona to help them overcome their struggles through boxing. Although he is looked down upon because of his unorth ...

By Nuria Aguado Roig

Blind Bodies

There are those who are blind. There are those who are blind because they are not able to see. There are those who are blind because they are able to watch beyond what the other people see. An experimental video art project, made for 'Art Therapy' Ex ...

By Michele Bellio

#10 - Tryaxis

The first videoclip of the independent italian rock duo 'Tryaxis' after twenty years of music and four self-produced album. The song's title is #10, from the album 'Oxygen'. A choreographed love story that works primarily on color, following the acce ...

By Michele Bellio

Un Romeo

A homeless is sadly begging. Once he reaches the amount he needs, he does something unexpected: he spends everything he owns to buy a bouquet of flowers. From that moment he starts to look for the woman who will prove to deserve that gift. Society in ...

By Michele Bellio

Reverse continuity

Reverse continuity

A young man wakes up in his room and finds himself locked in there. he begins a search for the key, but it seems that something is behind the door.

By Pooria Shojaei

Pesce

A strange photographer moves slily to capture the 'beautiful moments'. Moments of a silence which challenges technology, light on the trees hiding a secret. Everything starts with some photos found in a cafeteria. Who is Fish?

By Michele Bellio

The Buzzing of a bumblebee

The Buzzing of a bumblebee

SynopsisAn old woman is dying in a nursing home. She is surrounded by different people - everybody has his own relationship with death.

By Vladimir Beldian

Inferno

A dark tale about a man suffering from the murder of his wife. He gets a chance to save his wife from the underworld but has to make an offer.

By Daniele Tucci

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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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