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Una historia cualquiera

Una historia cualquiera

Viktoria va a Espa�a de vacaciones. En Madrid conoce a Manuel, un joven aficionado al Flamenco, y con los d�as algo muy fuerte sucede entre ellos. Viktoria goes to Spain on vacation. In Madrid she mets Manuel, a young enthusiastic about flamenco music, ...

By Manuel Jes�s Luis Rodr�guez

Violeta Mi Vida

Violeta Mi Vida

Debora (45) and Violeta (12) have one week left for Violeta`s Bat Mitzvah. (A jewish celebration for girls becoming a woman at 12 years old). The event should be the happiest day --a day that serve as an escape from the harsh reality of their liv ...

UN ORFANATO EN LA CHINA

UN ORFANATO EN LA CHINA

An essayistic short film about the daily presence of colonialism in our bodies, education, and the ways histories are written. The point of departure is an engraving of a French orphanage in late 19th century China. On the back of the seemingly benig ...

By Karen Michelsen Casta��n

Spitifire: Back to zero

Spitifire: Back to zero

The amazing story of Spitfire, maybe the most important Greek heavy metal band, whose singer was heavily injured in a car accident, just after having finished the recordings of their first album. For the first time, after 25 years, the band�s members ...

By Vaggelis Rigas

Aakhir

Two people set out on a journey. One has no clue, the other has a reason to hide. They meet a stranger whose chemistry with his pet mouse is lovable. Who are these people? A mastermind, a believer, a psychopath and a unknown destination. Strange conv ...

Champagne, Intimacy, Alan

Champagne, Intimacy, Alan

Alan and Carol, middle class, mid-40s, bored and terminally married, attend an upmarket swinger's party for the first time. At the party, held in a stunning county house, they meet Sonya, a statuesque Russian, and her intense, laconic husband Dan. Th ...

By David Martin

AL FINAL DE LA NOCHE (The end of the night)

AL FINAL DE LA NOCHE (The end of the night)

How many things can happen during one night? For the first time Louis and Sarah are having dinner in their new apartment. They might think their happiness is complete. Nevertheless, Louis leaves the house to find something that is lacking him. At th ...

By Cristian G�mez Aguilar

Seven high school students decide to investigate on their own the history of the military coup and the dictatorship in Spain, not mentioned in textbooks. Accompanied by first-hand witnesses of those events and some experts as the judge Baltasar Garz�n, ...

ARIANAS

Atrav�s dos sons , das imagens e do trabalho de ator um transbordamento do que pode ser de um acontecimento, um crime, na vida de duas meninas mulheres, mulheres em constru��o, na imensid�o da vida.

By hylnara anny vidal

Apar�cio and his friends want to know why Brazilian Cinema only shows abroad the very same themes and ideas already spreaded to everyone.

By Emanuel Mendes

El Retorno

This is the story of seven sisters who, forty- five years ago return to the town where they were born. Town that they were forced to leave, because an action of them father. An action that were stigmatized and chased for an ultra catholic and conserv ...

By Juan Pablo R�os

Invisible Sister

Invisible Sister

For the past six years, documentary filmmaker Jamie Rogers has been disconnected from her adopted sister, Kelly, for reasons that her parents refused to explain. Through a series of personal interviews, Jamie explores the events starting with Kelly's ...

By Jamie Rogers

TRILOGIA DEL SILENCIO

TRILOGIA DEL SILENCIO

The Trilogy of Silence deals with the unavoidable necessity of a human being to be a contemporary being. In order to achieve this, one has to be in a distant position regarding the facts, regarding the quotidianity. This results in exigency of re-tr ...

By DIEGO FIORI, OLGA POHANKOVA

HORSEFACE

A 20� budget Comedy-Horror-Science fiction-thriller-Animal-Drama shortfilm starred by my grandmother and me.

By Marc Mart�nez Jord�n

CHOR (The Thief)

CHOR (The Thief)

In the modern time all over the world; people are becoming product. We are losing finest arts of the heart. We are all thieves in real life.

By Allabhya Ghosh

Sin Patron

La F�brica Sin Patr�n ex Zanon tiene 450 trabajadores y 13 a�os de lucha autogestiva. La historia de Fasinpat est� escrita con el lenguaje de la resistencia y como en toda cooperativa, las cosas se resuelven por asamblea. Este documental cuenta la historia de ...

By Juan Pablo Lepore y Nicolas Van Caloen

Los Primos de la Revolucion

Los Primos de la Revolucion

The story of a close-knit family split up by the Cuban Revolution, this is a beautiful and emotional account about family and history. When the revolution in 1959 transpires, three out of five cousins leave Cuba in disagreements with the government- ...

By David Lobaina

A High-school in the most expensive neighborhood in Buenos Aires, has a student population that combines excluded from the Slum 31 with middle-class kids. The organization of the Student Center will bring social tensions.

By Francisco M�rquez

We flew over to Guinea-Bissau, Africa, for a movie footage. I�m a first director assistant. We are filming in the capital, Bissau. On the third day we leave to Bolama, an Island in the Bijagos archipelago and former capital of the country until 1941 ...

By Paulo Carneiro

A a��o � sintetizada no drama de uma favelada negra e seu dependente que se veem obrigados a abandonar o barraco onde vivem. Um pequeno epis�dio de tantos ocorridos nas favelas, revelando o abandono em que se encontra sua classe, sujeita ao descaso a que s�o ...

By Sergio Ricardo

Una peque�a comunidad alejada de la civilizaci�n en el estado de Quer�taro, es el lugar en el que se concentran familias enteras, que van a visitar a San Antonio de Padua para pedirle salud y apoyo. Los hijos y nietos de esas familias, son quienes describen ...

By H�ctor Trejo S�nchez

sendai

Ensayo experimental sobre las trag�dias, el hombre y su lucha para permanecer en el mundo, inspirado en Sendai, ciudad mas afectada por lo terremoto de magnitud 9.0 en Japan. Las imagenes del Tsunami que sigui� al tremblor aterrorizaran el mundo. Sin dial ...

By claudia nunes

Master Blaster - Uma aventura de Hans Lucas na nebulosa 2907N

Master Blaster - Uma aventura de Hans Lucas na nebulosa 2907N

A strange astronomic event has taken place on nebula 2907N. Intergalactic agent Hans Lucas is sent over to investigate the event, which has transformed the habits of the local population.

By Raul Arthuso

Descompasso

One day time breaks and order fades

By Rodolfo de Castilhos

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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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