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Lona y Viruta

Lona y Viruta cuenta la historia de un circo familiar a trav�s del relato de un grupo de artistas apasionados que describen c�mo viven y cu�les son las dificultades que atraviesan para seguir adelante. La vida moderna cambi� las formas de entretenimiento y los ...

By Oscar Aguerre

continuacion de la saga ambiento. amigos compran un campo con el fin de trabajarlo turisticamente, pero el encargado de comprarlo lo compra sin verlo y el campo es un desastre, aqui se unen todos para dejarlo bonito al tiempo que comienzan a llegar ...

By leonardo Mauad

Los Desiertos

Agustin viaja sin destino acompa�ado solamente por el cuaderno. A lo largo del viaje �l encuentra a si mismo envuelto a personas y pensamientos. Agustin travels aimlessly in the sole company of his notebook. Throughout his trip he finds himself surround ...

By Diego Garcia

Los cantantes, mimos, bailarines, humoristas y estatuas humanas del�S�ptimazo�son un bien cultural que no tiene precio. Sin embargo, por�el�precio de una moneda (o menos si no tienes) inspiran magia, alegr�a, comedia, tragedia, cultura y pasi�n en�el�centro ...

Speculation Nation

Speculation Nation

Bill Brown and Sabine Gruffat travel across Spain to document the consequences of the housing crisis. What they find are Spanish citizens, inspired by the politics of The 15M Movement and Occupy Wall Street, who are mobilizing, collectivizing, and fi ...

By Sabine Gruffat, Bill Brown

The journey of a woman from Pernambuco and her rejection of all that doesn't seem to have a solution. Living deep dilemmas in her personal life and in an attempt to reconstruct past lives, she begins a journey through the prisions of Recife. Her inte ...

By Susanna Lira

PRIMER ROUND

Tiare Araya es una ni�a de 16 a�os que con esfuerzo y disciplina se prepara para dar su primera pelea en el boxeo amataeur de la ciudad de Rancagua, Chile

By Pedro Camiroaga

HABITAT - Note Personali

HABITAT - Note Personali

Habitat is a film about living in L�Aquila after the earthquake � therefore about the earthquake as everyday life and not as breaking news. It�s the attempt to express personal conditions in a collective tragedy through cinematic means.

By Emiliano Dante

LIMEN (omission)

LIMEN (omission)

2005, year of the death of John Paul II. Luca Bianco (FABRIZIO CROCI) is a christian fundamentalist, obsessed by Islam and by an extremely racist view of Christianity. A woman (FRANCESCA ZAVAGLIA) comes daily to tape their conversations. After few m ...

By Emiliano Dante

Em meio � adolesc�ncia, Daniel, um aluno do ensino m�dio, vivencia e experimenta os problemas, encontros e desencontros dessa fase, iniciando uma jornada de auto-conhecimento, reafirma��o e questionamento. O amor, a cidade, as amizades e a escola... Tudo con ...

By Oficina de Audiovisual

Babaten� is an experimental short film set in the imaginary of a Lambe-sujo, the structure of the work is based on the poem Frustra��o of the poet Jo�o Sapateiro and uses Samba de Coco elements in its composition drawing a dream scenario experienced by dru ...

By Ricardo dos Santos

Ela volta na quinta

Ela volta na quinta

Alguien dej� alguien estaba.

By Andr� Novais Oliveira

Em busca de manifesta��es sobrenaturais, um jovem entra pela porta de uma casa abandonada.

By Matheus Medeiros

Ultimum

Ultimum is about a middle-aged man who experiences many unfortunate incidents in a very short time at a very catastrophic time in his life. He discovers unusual points and make the things shaped again by undefined occurrence of a mysterious man near ...

By Bahadir Karasu

Kafal Pakyo

The film is set in the countryside of Nepal during the civil war period, where most men were either abroad or displaced because of the war. A countryside where orient cuckoo bird (known locally as Kafal Pakyo ) tweets continuously. Sushmadevi, a moth ...

By Niranjan Raj Bhetwal

Crime Boss

Local crime boss, Frank, pays a visit to the mother of a young man who stole drugs from him. Frank�s ill thought out visit to inform the woman that when caught, her son face�s serious retribution, goes terribly wrong when Mairead realizes that she c ...

By Brian Stynes

"Fatigue Society - Byung-Chul Han in Seoul / Berlin" The essay film about the German philosopher Byung-Chul Han encircles the phenomenon of fatigue in our capitalistic societies and its associated symptoms such as depression and burnout. It raises t ...

By Isabella Gresser

Casa Margaritas

Casa Margaritas

Las Margaritas is an intimate protrait of Colombian coffee pickers. Set in a coffee-ranch in the Quindio run by Orlando and his family. Main characters include Antonio Jose, Orlando's eccentric 80 year old father and Ihidio, the worker who lives in ...

By raphaelle ayach

La libertad de Hugo

La libertad de Hugo

At a discordant family roadtrip, Hugo escapes and discovers his freedom, but also its consequences.

By DANIEL LOUSTAUNAU

Admission

A solitary man finds himself spying on a couple outside of his window. Sooner or later he will discover a disturbing truth behind the love.

By Gianluca Balla

FLIPSIDE

This film employs a succession of moving images from similar and dissimilar locations. The resulting project seeks to extract from these locations images of confinement, life, disorder, order, the bleak and the stifling, and then unify the moving ima ...

By David Anthony Sant

Bergus Chan

The story is about Bergus Chan. He is a talking rabbit, and is an adventurer. He meets Junna, a mysterious girl in Italy. And, she got a time-machine. The two go to the past era of Thailand with the machine. The place was the legendary Japanese lost ...

By Yoshimasa Higashi

Letting

We are all trapped within invisible walls of perception and thoughts in our minds. This short film tries to artistically depict the inner and outer journey of a man who finally decides to break free. It has been attempted to do so in the dreamy stat ...

By Vishal Sarma

Videoclub

On a spring night of 1999, two teens - a videostore clerk and a film buff - set out on a adventure: to deliver the obsolete VHS-tapes to the people who rented those movies the most. Based on a script selected by Nisi Masa�s European Short Pitch and ...

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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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