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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

Sinopse: After falling in love with an ideal, a man walks through the city on a reluctant quest that makes him wander between reality and dream. A hybrid mention among the works of Dostoyevsky, "White Nights"; Magritte, "Attempting the Impossible"; ...

By D�bora Cancio

The Monster

Trying to resurrect his successful career from the early 20th century, an iconic monster, takes a part in a modern day slasher film. A true gent, he finds the medium distasteful but falls in love with his leading lady who convinces him that he is �Am ...

Elvis 55

Invented documentary story from life of the people living Elvis Presley. Each of them has own destiny and character. Today they meet to spend some time with each other. And of course not without Elvis!

By Alexander Popov

SAR

Having woken up in a small bungalow on an ocean coast, our hero doesn't remember from where is he and how he appeared here. Day by day he is covered by the increasing hopelessness and melancholy. The people meeting to him on the way don't understand ...

By Alexander Popov

Bock Saga - Welcome to Hel

Bock Saga - Welcome to Hel

It is the movie - travel on secret side of Finland. The mythology connected with one of the most ancient stories around the world - BOCK SAGA. The Saga told from creation of the world which was transmitted presently by Ior Bock. In the film, we wil ...

By Alexander Popov

The memory of the existence of a rhea in an urban yard of Buenos Aires during the �80s triggers this documentary. The excuse of learning something more about that animal allows us to discover a tipical capital city's neighbourhood, its transformation ...

By Jorge Montanari

Das nuvens pra baixo

Das nuvens pra baixo

Entre la favela de Canind�, en Sao Paulo de 1960, y la favela da Mar�, en R�o de Janeiro, 2015, la pel�cula cria puentes entre los diarios de la escritora Carolina Mar�a de Jes�s y otras "Carolinas": Iraci, Edilma, Mar�a Paz, Vanessa y Genalda. Sus narrativas y ...

By Eliska Altmann

Rituales para sobrevivir al Tedio

Rituales para sobrevivir al Tedio

Animaci�n hecha cuadro a cuadro con dibujo con rapid�grafo, con grafito y con carboncillo.

By �lvaro Andr�s Echeverri

O Nome do Dia

Un dolor profundo y silencioso une padre y madre en la nostalgia del hijo. Para seguir adelante, ellos necesitan enfrentar el sufrimiento desconocido. El hijo dijo que cada d�a ten�a un nombre, pero se fue sin decir el nombre del d�a de su muerte.

By Marcello Quintella e Boynard

"Cotton String"

Two middle-aged men decide to invest in a hippie's electric classic-car invention.

By Marina Bruno

See How Easy That Was?

"See How Easy That Was?"

A distressed young man is startled when he encounters an aggressive hobo in an alley.

By Marina Bruno

Farda

I do not know why woman are so fond of uniform.

By Maria Cardozo

Documentary 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 ...

By C�ssio Ara�jo

So�ando con recorrer el mundo con su m�sica, un joven trombonista toca con fuerza todo los d�as en el famoso malec�n de Habana. / A young trombonist dreams of touring the world as he plays his heart out on Havana's iconic seaside boardwalk.

By Marc Serpa Francoeur

El juicio adelantado

El juicio adelantado

V�ctor Mozo, poet, born in Zamora (Spain), tell us yours memories about poetry. When he began, how he changed along the time and the events, good decisions, concerns... An autobiography's reflection coded like videopoetry. The documentary film shows fl ...

By Bel�n Montero & Juan Lesta (DSK)

Chris, a teenager passionate for film, blinded to get others� feelings uses a Super 8 camera to recreate scenes described by people in their letters. He�s helped by a friend, Marc, orphan, passionate for theatre, who�ll be hurt by Chris� wild will.

By Rha�ssa Monteiro Pinto

Photo de Monoculaire

Photo de Monoculaire

The encounter between a mime and a sad girl.

By Rha�ssa Monteiro Pinto

PAM

A naive freshman gets more than she bargains for when she tags along with her sister on a trip from the grocery store. From the producer of BELLFLOWER. I grew up in Chicago in the 1970's. This is what happens when that happens.

By Kathleen Cecchin

Origen de una Leyenda

Origen de una Leyenda

A principios del siglo XX en un peque�o pueblo de Almer�a ocurri� un macabro suceso, que a d�a de hoy se sigue contando generaci�n tras generaci�n en forma de leyenda. Muchos conocen la Leyenda pero no la verdadera historia...

By Rocio Montes

A pornadventure lo-fi? A swedish-like John Waters? A pseudopunk tape or a pseudointelectual punk tape??Video clip recorded in VHS for the musical project TucA, by the multiartist Dellani Lima. The project merges analogic and digital processes to pro ...

By Ver�nica Souza

Vitor is going through a love crisis and finds himself living in his father�s house again. Between advices from old friends and skate rides, he tries to get things together.

By Fernanda Salgado

Dust to Dust

A man, sitting in a dark room, broods over his past good and sad days and how he was able to overcome the sad ones when he had fallen in love with a woman. But, that good time also didn't last long. Just after that he lost his job, too. Consequent ...

By Purnendu Dey

the story of the friends

the story of the friends

the film is about the dream of immigration at egypt , a lot of guys feel not happy boring not important complaining from similar days and standing still in their small circle of the friends and activities , the daily life to these guys became not int ...

Sprint v proshloe

Sprint v proshloe

Short film �Sprint to the past �- is the debut author's project of Selkin Fedor.The film tells the story of one of the most beautiful sports-rowing, about the fate of its athletes and their memories in our days. It is the story about the three frien ...

By Fedor Selkin

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Fourteen Days
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Yomigaeru To Live Again
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Brazil is Not Copacabana
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About Killing The Pig
The Caramel Corn Riot
Fiona Humphrey: A Family Album

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