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COICE NO PEITO

Dicho el dicho por lo no dicho, dicho yo, dicho tu, dicho nosotros.

By Maria Tereza Urias

Ossos

Inspirado no "Ator" texto de Tadeusz Kantor, Ossos � um happening cinematogr�fico, onde desnudar-se � um caminho para a liberdade e um sim � vida.

By Barbara Vida

Feio, Eu?

Ugly, Me? is a film manifesto made from a workshop for actors called Characters in Search of a Movie, in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, extended to Paris and Kerala (India). Multifaceted like a kaleidoscope, the characters appear in multi-screens scenes and s ...

By Barbara Vida

�Passion and Virtue� is an adaptation based on Gustave Flaubert�s Passion et Vertu which tells the story of Mazza, a married middle-aged woman who is acquainted with Ernest, a charming young chemist, whose biggest amusement is to seduce married women ...

By Barbara Vida

Andreas loves making videos in which he and his friends Clemens and Dina pretend to kill themselves, but when he throws himself on subway tracks just for shock value, Clemens quits their friendship. So Andreas seeks refuge in Dina's company but overl ...

By Mark Gerstorfer

Funny Words

Chad's having one of those magical days full of deep conversations and profound realizations. Oh no, wait, he�s just really really high. Eight hours in, his cocoa puffs are tasting ever more delicious and his conclusions are getting ever more n ...

Education, work, family, love, expectations and fears in today's Italy. Re and Zhanxing are two second-generation, culturally mixed adolescents.. Re was born in Italy in a Filipino family, lives in Rome with his parents and sister, is engaged, stu ...

By Giusy Buccheri

Captures the degradation of once a beautiful relationship between grandmother and grandson in the dehumanizing environment of a Croatian government pensioners home. What happens to a person when they loses their function?

By Dario Bukovski

Fool of Life

A metaphor of an inner pursuit of freedom, a map of the contemporary Nouveau Clown movement.

By Tommaso Magnano

Chronicle of a Simple Life

Chronicle of a Simple Life

Gianfranco is a 36 year old guy. He lives in Bardenghi, a small mountain hamlet in Valle Stura di Demonte (in the province of Cuneo). The exodus from the mountains and the lack of a community to rely on, forced him to get a job in a factory, close to ...

By Fabio Gianotti

A poetic reconstruction of an abandoned British military housing compound in the German city of M�nchengladbach.

By Kai Welf Hoyme

La Huella de los Abuelos

La Huella de los Abuelos

Siete estudiantes de secundaria deciden indagar por su cuenta la historia del golpe de estado y la dictadura en Espa�a, silenciada en los libros de texto de las escuelas. Acompa�ados por testigos directos de aquellos acontecimientos inician un viaje tr ...

Deluge

A storm emerges from the darkness. (experimental) dir. Jeremy Newman

By Jeremy Newman

Boy with a Frog

Boy with a Frog

CH?OPIEC Z ?AB? Three years in the life of a couple of kids, windshield washers working around the Magnolia shopping mall. Their life stories are similar; mother is dead, father is an alcoholic, alternatively father is living abroad, mother can�t c ...

By Bartek Bartos

Le Bonheur ... Terre Promise

Le Bonheur ... Terre Promise

Nothing is ever planned nor foreseen. You leave home on a winter morning wishing to cross France, walking alone from South to North in search of happiness.

By Laurent HASSE

Re-Talhada-Mente, Ex-Tendida

Re-Talhada-Mente, Ex-Tendida

Uma Boca.Sabor e saber.Sede da sociedade na cidade insaci�vel.

By Rafael Antunes Marcelino

Um experimento tentando integrar, de forma sinest�sica, a cor,o brilho e o som em um mesmo "mantra visual"

By Rafael Antunes Marcelino

Manifesto da arte como resist�ncia ao trabalho e urbanismo opressivos

By Rafael Antunes Marcelino

Les Bones Persones

Les Bones Persones

Esteve a children fantasy writer and a scandinavian best-seller translator comes back to La Seu d'Urgell after five years where he has been living in Reykjavik with his wife Kim (Sigga Baldursdottir). Once there, he meets again with old friends like ...

By Jaume Benedito

Quatro Pessoas sem nome. Uma Casa. Correr. Morrer.

Uma experi�ncia para o poss�vel "Prazer de possuir a cidade" , do qual falava Marshall Berman, aplicada ao contexto da cidade de S�o Paulo e suas significa��es simb�licas.

By Andr� Mascarenhas

Desde los 9 a�os Don V�ctor J�come cuando era a�n un colegial, decidi� que su camino ser�a la fotograf�a. La curiosidad le llev� a desarrollar gran creatividad hasta el punto de dise�ar entre otras cosas, sus propias l�mparas para el trabajo en estudio. A la vanguardia d ...

By Liliana Correa - Nicol�s Mej�a

CONTROL Z

En una ciudad antigua al lado del mar vive Adolfo, joven fot�grafo, serio y anal�tico enamorado de Iris, una chica descomplicada y dulce que para su vida es como la brisa refrescante. Ambos son testigos de una marcha sin descanso, se puede percibir en el ...

By Eri Pedrozo Ulloa y Jehisel Ramos Perilla

Palikari & The Ludlow Massacre

Palikari & The Ludlow Massacre

The most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history. Greek migrant and trade union activist Louis Tikas talks about the Ludlow Massacre. Director Nikos Ventouras and producer Lamprini Thoma chart the story of th ...

By Nikolaos Ventouras

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Building bridges based on the
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Cine Pobre is the 100%
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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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