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Dos empleados de un banco Argentino realizan un espectacular asalto sin apropiarse de nada para su uso personal. Todo el dinero lo aportan a la causa revolucionaria a la que se han unido.

A Vida com Efeito

A Vida com Efeito

Willing to detach himself from technical formalities, the author Louren�o Mutatelli created a laboratory where he puts himself to work under the influence of massive doses of alcohol and anti-depressives in order to freely write and draw the ideas that ...

By Eduardo Liron

How many families will be evicted Rio on behalf of the Olympics? How many life stories will be stopped for the realization of an event that will last 15 days? Who profits from removals in the city? The Vila Aut�dromo residents tell the story of the comm ...

Correr

�Correr� cuenta en forma sensorial y paradojal. Cuenta la historia de una madre y su hijo que viven bajo el mismo techo, pero nunca est�n juntos en una escena, cuenta as�, sus soledades. Es una pel�cula aparentemente contemplativa pero que muestra conflic ...

By Zaida de Pedro

Las calles de la Habana vibran a toda hora. La gente se apodera de ellas y practica todo tipo de deporte. Desde la ni�ez hasta la vejez. Desde el trompo hasta el Domin�. Siempre.

By Rodrigo Pinto

MAGELA, O POETA

MAGELA, O POETA

Documental experimental sobre el poeta Geraldo Magela que lleg� a Curitiba a la edad de 15 y pas� a hacer poemas a los 16. En este documental, que lleva a cabo actuaciones de sus cr�ticos poemas y con muy buen humor. Algunos de sus poemas han sido recreados ...

By almir correia

Retrato de Dora

Retrato de Dora

Luego de hallar decenas de fotograf�as de su abuela joven, nieta le pide para escuchar las historias de su vida A grandmother takes her granddaughter to visit her past memories through old photographs.

By Bruna Callegari

Fruta Podrida

After receiving a warning, inspector find several bodies at the base of a river. Fed up with this situation and brass knuckles in hand, begins to question the finest scum of the neighborhood. After obtaining some information initiates appropriate a ...

La gente llega hasta donde quiere

La gente llega hasta donde quiere

Taxistas, peluqueros y vendedores ambulantes respondiendo a las preguntas: �Qui�n soy? �Hacia d�nde voy?

By C�sar Cepeda

Feliciano Esperan�a Filho es un jardinero con un objetivo en la vida: usar sus poderes m�gicos jardiner�a de separar alegr�a en nuestro planeta.

By Robson dos Santos

Escribir es reescribir

Escribir es reescribir

Un guionista novel se enfrenta a la reescritura m�s dif�cil de su corta carrera. el tiempo juega en su contra.

By Luis Francisco P�rez

This movie is about the things that aren�t there anymore. They aren�t there because they faded away with time and live only on the inside of my eyes. How much can our memory be inaccurate and impressive? I remember well the day the home phone rang ...

By Carlos Debiasi

Another

A beautiful young woman is driven into a dark underworld of demonic possession, desire, and extreme indulgences when she learns she may be the devil's kin.

By jason bognacki

Personal Vivator

Personal Vivator

Rutger is an extraterrestrial being whose mission is to spend 72 hours on Earth researching on human behavior. To avoid suspicion, he disguises himself as a �documentary filmmaker� and chooses the city of Rio de Janeiro to give his first step.

By Sabrina Fidalgo

The Terrible Typewriter

The Terrible Typewriter

The battle between a writer and his typewriter. A violoent showdown seems unavoidable. The Terrible Typwriter, set in the 1930�s, is a thriller/dark comedy swedish Noir with a touch of H.P. Lovecraft.

By Marko Kattilakoski

Aakhir (At Last)

Aakhir (At Last)

Two people set out on a journey. One has no clue about where they are heading. 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 an unk ...

SAOL

SAOL film is a perspective on a young girl trapped in her own house and in her own life after losing her dad a year before. Another Christmas arrives, but everything has changed. She has got a tremendous Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) with a fea ...

Magia

Con la l�gica y la inocencia de una ni�a de 7 a�os, Carla cree que puede hacer algo para reunir de nuevo a su familia: acabar el dibujo antes de que el sol de la ma�ana alumbre la hoja. With the logic and the innocence of a 7 year old girl, Carla thinks she c ...

EL CUARTO

Una c�mara oculta devela los problemas socioculturales de un pa�s conservador y lleno de tab�es respecto al sexo, poniendo al desnudo los conflictos personales e intimos de cada ser humano que visita EL CUARTO de Amanda (Andrea RIncon) una prostituta que ...

By Juan Pablo Milan

Who Killed Captain Alex: Uganda's First Action Film

Who Killed Captain Alex: Uganda's First Action Film

Produced by Ramon Film Productions, an action movie studio in the slums of Uganda that uses guns carved from wood, a modified car jack for a tripod, and real blood, Who Killed Captain Alex: Uganda's First Action Movie has caused a sensation across th ...

Alex wakes up in a unknown room with walled windows. From the other side of the wall he hears the voice of a man begging for help. After many hard attempts to get out, he finally makes it but finds out that he is in a endless labyrinth.

By Nicola Lucchi

Andrea en una caja

Andrea en una caja

Patricia y Andrea tienen una discusion sobre su vida en pareja, lo cual pone su relacion en un limbo. Patricia sale en viaje de trabajo, Andrea toma una decision que podra cambiar de forma irreversible sus vidas.

By Adri�n Gonz�lez Camargo

Breve Ausencia

Un hombre atrapado en un recuerdo.

By Karen Vilchis & Ninfa Sanchez

�PM � Policial M�gico� � uma s�tira bem humorada direcionada aos policiais que fazem morteiros aparecerem nas mochilas de manifestantes, e gente de bem desaparecerem.

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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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