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La ladrona de sombras

La ladrona de sombras

A 9 years old girl who spends most of her time playing with the shadows growing on the town's wall. After developing a habit, she develops a particular skill that allows her to take over people's talents throughout them.

By Trotsky Vargas

Mirrors #1

An unnamed narrator recalls the life of his mother who worked in a mythical factory which provided mirrors to mermaids, murderers, fairytale queens and European aristocrats. After the factory is destroyed by fire, the mother wanders aimlessly around ...

By WW Jones + Luke Skinner

myKolkata - a Documentary of my Art & Culture

myKolkata - a Documentary of my Art & Culture

By Sumantra Mukherjee

LIKE IT

LIKE IT is a short film reminiscent of another era. It was written, shot and edited on an impulse - three days. Starring the French singer Douce angoisse, it is the melancholy journey from the suburbs to the city of a woman full of doubts. It rains.

By Jenny Cartwright

Homeless

A poem-based short film about Homelessness. The homeless man named Paul is wandering into a big and rich city while he is trying to find out a place to call "home".

By Vladimir Nicolas

Designers Inbetween

Designers Inbetween

A documentary film about designers who turn their dream into a business in Hong Kong. Designers Inbetween is a documentary revealing Hong Kong�s creative industry through the lens of a range of start ups to industry�s leading professionals. It is ...

By Jonathan Ramalho & Oliver Lehtonen

CV

Drowning in an overwhelming routine and in need for a change, answers come from his past.

By Matias Goinheix

Byrne

Charles Byrne: the Irish giant. Born 1761. Arrives London April 1782. Exhibit at Cox's freak show, Spring Gardens. Ratings waning within a year. Fandom of John Hunter (Godfather of modern surgery) consistent. Byrne keeps growing. April 23 1783: Byr ...

By susu laroche

nos cuidamos mucho

nos cuidamos mucho

Un peque�o retrato de mi hermano Agust�n, de un viaje con el, y de sus amigos. Ellos viven en las afueras de Barcelona, tienen 16 a�os, y rapean, andan en patineta, hacen graffitis y fuman marihuana. El recorrido por el barrio de Premia de Mar, junto a la co ...

By natalia garcia

A palavra que n�o sai. Ang�stia. Que vida � essa que voc� leva, Jos�? Cad� voc�? Por que voc� fez isso?! CONV�VIO observa o invis�vel mundo de um homem de 30 anos que, sozinho, em sil�ncio, passa os dias a apertar o n� que vive em sua garganta. Jos� olha o mar. Sente o medo ...

By Bruno Arrivabene

Frost Sierra

This is a 3 people student work project, we would like to share a lovely yet short 3D animated film. The summary of this story is about a hunter got injured in a war and how his wife save him and pay off the price. This is a love story plus some figh ...

By Tan Zher Yung, Ong Ervin

El ser contemporaneo y su dualidad. Dos hombres y sus conflictos y contradicciones entre progreso y preservaci�n, individualidad y ciudadania. ?Como conciliar eso en un ambiente urbano sin olvidar su pr�pia naturaleza?

By Leon Junqueira

Atolondrado

The epic story of Washington Cucurto, Buenos Aires� own infant terrible. This is the journey of a humble young man whose destiny was to be a supermarket stocky until someone lent him a poetry book. Atolondrado portrays the everyday life of this proli ...

By Edmundo Bejarano

Matka Ziemia

Maciek is no longer a boy, but has not yet become a man. As every man before him in the family, he wants to be a butcher and satisfy his father�s ambition. But unfortunately he is too sensitive to make an animal suffer. Conflicted, the young man turn ...

By Piotr Zlotorowicz

Duro Amor

Una madre busca llamar la atenci�n y la compasi�n de los dem�s enfermando a su hija de forma intencional.

By Joanna Herrera

Asco

Una anciana obsesionada por la limpieza y aislada del mundo, recibe la visita de una nueva asistente social, Agnieszka. Agnieszka lleva s�lo tres d�as en �ste, su �ltimo trabajo, pero la anciana no parece muy dispuesta a ponerle las cosas f�ciles...

By Fernando G. Pliego

MENINA LUA MENINO LUA

MENINA LUA MENINO LUA

A Mooon Girl. A moon boy. Two wardrobes. Many attempts to communicate. And a tribute to George M�li�s.

By almir correia

Peluquero Futbolero

Peluquero Futbolero

Pelayo wants to return home groomed and clean-shaven. It's late and he's lost. He manages to find a hairdresser open. But his salvation turns to nightmare as he finds himself captive at the mercy of a football fan hairdresser.

By Juan Manuel Arag�n

Foto de Familia

Foto de Familia

A couple near to a break up. Their only child discovers a secret about her mother and turns it into a drama.

By Fernando G. Pliego

Magnolia � uma moradora de rua no centro de S�o Paulo. Na hora de seu almo�o , um instante de sua mem�ria lembra da vida melhor q teve no passado.

By Hana Oliveira

I FEEL LOST

Javier feels an existential emptiness after watching the last episode of LOST. Little by little, a strange force pushes him further and further into a voyage of self-discovery. What starts as a game could end up ... as a game!

By Juan Manuel Arag�n

Cuatro Veintes

An elderly widow discusses her present life with resignation and wistfully recalls her past on the day she turns eighty years old.

By Jorge Aparicio

Night-mare

"Night-mare" is technically my first short film. I am not a professional writer, editor or even actor, but very much passionate about this part of creativity. I was determined to at least make a short movie but there was a time where I was thinking a ...

By Md. Asif Imrul

#tourpackcredo

Entre dezembro de 2013 e janeiro de 2014 Pack, sua esposa Patricia e Credo, viajaram de carro pelo sul do Brasil (Curitiba, Florian�polis, Crici�ma, Porto Alegre, Santa Maria e Uruguaiana) Argentina (Buenos Aires e La Plata) e Uruguai (Colonia del Sacra ...

By Patrick Gomes de Toledo

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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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