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Peones

Dos hombres juegan al ajedrez. Two men play chess.

By Benjam�n Villaverde

A City is an Island

A City is an Island

In a Montreal where linguistic identity is a permanent, fundamental issue, a community of talented English-speaking musicians has put down roots, attracted by the city�s cheap rents. This scene has grown into a cultural world unto itself. Warehouses ...

By Timothy George Kelly

The Wedding Anniversary

The Wedding Anniversary

A couple is privately celebrating their wedding anniversary. But an unplanned performance by their children helps turn a home video into a silent comedy short of Chaplinesque proportions.

By Vijay S. Jodha

falcon

Ale, un adolescente que pasa su tiempo arreglando un Falcon, est� enamor�ndose de F�tima, su mejor amiga. Mientras se adecua a una nueva situaci�n social e intenta sobrellevar el acoso de Maxi, un compa�ero, buscar� reconstruir su identidad.

By Rafael Perez Boero

ROMANTICOS de LAS MARISMAS

ROMANTICOS de LAS MARISMAS

Cuando uno lo mira y ve de la forma que le brillan los ojos quiz�s casi casi que uno tiene una conversaci�n con el toro y te expresa algo que te hace sentirte el mas grande del mundo pero que a la vez te llena de humildad porque sabes que se lo debes a ...

By Luc GOBYN Luke Aaron CLARK

Imminent Threat

Imminent Threat

Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents a doc on the War on Terror's impact on civil liberties.

By Janek Ambros

Deseo #8

Dos fases de un mismo y misterioso ritual de car�cter suicida, lleno de acciones y elementos simb�licos que confrontan las dos facetas de un escritor perturbado por los fantasmas de una relaci�n pasada.

By David Zamora

Jaskolka

Early 1970s. The gray face of communist Poland is getting some color. More foreign cars appear on the roads, and there�s even color TV in some homes. In 1973 Stan Borys wins the Opole festival with the song �The Caged Swallow�. The event is watched ...

By Bartosz Warwas

La joven Ch�a vuelve a su aldea y se reencuentra con parientes y amigos: el abuelo Claudio Rojo, el t�o "Chencho", el escritor Julio Carrillo, etc. y con ellos conoce relatos sobre "los encantos", -esp�ritus de las lagunas- y otras creencias de origen ind�ge ...

By Wilmer D�az Soto

A CURA

Arnold found the healing for his alleged disease, but the healing may not be exactly what he expected.

By Alexander Zimmer

La pel�cula cuenta la historia de un hombre que mata las serpientes de la aldea detr�s de las monta�as , Juan, El hombre tranquilo , en silencio, cuando se le llama por un ni�o, se puso en marcha para luchar con la serpiente en el jard�n.

By S�rgio Ponti

Ursula

Dar�o cambia constantemente de pareja sin darse cuenta que est� atrapado en una misma relaci�n.

By Horacio Flores

IMPERCEPTIBLE

Alicia, esposa de Mario, luego de una jornada de trabajo, no regresa a su casa. Mario, quien vacila su preocupaci�n entre la desaparici�n de su mujer y el hast�o que le provoca vivir su propia vida, se deja llevar por la inercia de los acontecimientos hasta ...

By jorge zanzio

2015 was declared by the United Nations as the International Year of Light (IYL2015). We follow GalileoMobile's expedition to northern Bolivia and Brazil where the project performed astronomy activities preceding the celebration of the International ...

By Felipe Carrelli

Je est un autre

Je est un autre

(English) In an apartment live six men, the Sleeper is the initial who created all the other five duplicates. When the Sleeper dreams of one of them, the others will be forced to vanish. Who is the Sleeper and who are the others? The others who are ...

By Po-Yang CHANG

BISING: noise and experimental music in Indonesia

BISING: noise and experimental music in Indonesia

Indonesia has the largest scene of extreme and independent music scene in South-East Asia. This documentary gives an extensive overview with numerous bands, artists and speakers, all from Jakarta, Bandung, Bekasi, Yogyakarta, and Tokyo, who freely ta ...

By Adythia Utama

Quando dois amigos se encontram para um dia de pesca.

By Iulik Lomba de Farias

Rosso Papavero

Once upon a starry night, a small boy with a head full of fantasies witnesses dreamlike circus performances. Dazed by endless chain of glittering attractions he realizes that the price for a ticket to the fantastic circus tent is too high and the ga ...

By Martin Smatana

El 17 de Marzo de 2015 cerca de 80 mil jornaleros del valle de San Quint�n se levantaron en un paro laboral denunciando el cese a al esclavitud, dejando de rodillas a los empresarios agr�colas y al estado, estas son las voces que se atrevieron a existir. ...

By Damian Sinchovski

"...In the Dark"

Skeptical grad student, Veronica Carpenter (Lynn Justinger), interviews renowned paranormal specialist, Dr. Lois Kearne (Fiona Horrigan), for her thesis on the benefits of her supernatural research in regards to modern psychology, and joins her on a ...

By David Spaltro

Time To Kill

For years, we've seen that moment. The hit man, sitting in the chair, moonlight slicing across his face, his gun pointed at his sputtering victim. Harris is such a man, so very good at what he does. What he�s not so good at is filling the time bef ...

By Christopher T. Wood

No ano de 1893, a Revoluc?a?o Federalista no Rio Grande do Sul, que ja? perdura por uma de?cada, desencadeia na Provi?ncia, uma longa instabilidade poli?tica. A luta entre Chimangos e Maragatos gera um profundo sentimento de o?dio e o caos se torna i ...

By Vitor Liesenfeld

Fuera de foco

Pel�cula que refleja el d�a a d�a de varios artistas que luchan por sobrevivir en el mundo del arte: Un pintor divorciado que vuelve a casa de su madre, un guionista que intenta conseguir a un actor famoso para su primera pel�cula, una actriz que se plantea ...

By Montes y Ciudad

la pomme rouge

Esta es la historia sobre la amistad y el primer amor entre Vitalis y Giuly, dos ni�os rumanos que viven en un campamento gitano semi escondido al sur de Italia. Vitalis tiene 11 a�os y acaba de llegar de Rumania. Giuly tiene la misma edad y naci� en el cam ...

By giovanni princigalli

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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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