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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

What a Wonderful World / Ce Lume Minunata

What a Wonderful World / Ce Lume Minunata

After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist au ...

By Sergiu Cumatrenco

ESCAPES

After China's father death, China gets involved in a trip which will help her to find the human being's essence. A travel in which she will discover that running away is not the way http://huidasmovie.wordpress.com/

By mercedes gaspar

HUIDAS

China, in his flight he finds travelers who her help, or they guide it, but also moment lives terrible, of that it recovers in a residence for battered women. There it knows Caddy Adzuba (the famous journalist of the Republic of the Congo) and discov ...

By mercedes gaspar

Here but not here at all at the same time

Here but not here at all at the same time

�lonely in a crowd; distant, separate from others; something in common, not sure what; crossing boundaries, twisting space. You are here, and I am here. Here but not here at all at the same time.� �HERE BUT NOT HERE AT ALL AT THE SAME TIME� is an ex ...

By Fenia Kotsopoulou

Colourless

Its a film depicting the discrimination people suffer from, the discrimination of religion. It depicts consumerism and hypocrisy of a common man. The film focuses how water, a colourless element, unites people from two religion and brings back the co ...

By Anirban Karmakar

qoyo

#qoyo is a short film about a guy who experiences a situation, which made him, go to the streets and expresses his opinion his was.

By essam emadeldin

Hallelujah salvation and glory!

Hallelujah salvation and glory!

In the small town of Nova Tessal�nica, a miracle happens! But the saint who rises from the ground brings more than joy. She is God's messenger for humanity's ultimate test. http://www.alabamafilmes.com/desalmados.html

By Fl�vio Carnielli

My Brave Young Man

My Brave Young Man

"My Brave Young Man� is a film about a little boy who discovers the boundaries of his imaginary world. A seemingly ordinary quest for a new toy takes a different turn when we discover what that toy actually means to him.

Desire For Beauty

Desire For Beauty

The first ever Polish documentary on the issues of beauty and self-perception. It follows the winding journeys of four people who turn to plastic surgery as the last resort in their search for perfection. Aside from the obvious dilemmas, Desire for B ...

By Miguel Gaudencio

Take a Penny

Nick is dealing with old and new love and the end of a year that saw nine friends pass away.

By Michael McCallum

The Diary of Dreams

The Diary of Dreams

The movie starts with the narration of Keit (Keitlin Sh�ngjergji). She and Anna (Altea Mukaj) are Rachel's (Klesta Rapaj) best friends since childhood. During an April day Rachel is found dead in the school toilets reported to have committed suicide. K ...

Islands

A man and a woman meet by accident. A spark occurs, �chemistry� appears among these characters who will go through an emotional that will become them in �Islands�. http://www.islascorto.com

By Catalina V�squez

Robot Vitaliy

The video for the band's song "Neschastniy sluchay ". History rather short life robot romance and his friends

By Natalya Berezovaya

A bedtime story

A bedtime story

A woman wakes up in the dark of night without knowing that his nightmare is about to begin. During the next few minutes she will be the victim of a ghost whit the only mission of torture her of fear for his own amusement.

By Sergio Ruvalcaba

Sophie's Letter

Sophie's Letter

During the composition of the letter to her abusive father, Sophie identifies with her inner wounded child (Little Sophie) and gradually finds what she needs to grow beyond the limits and boundaries that were burned into her psyche so many years earl ...

Zoya

�Zoya� is the tragic story of a woman, a Muslim journalist, and a theatrical where their life and death intertwine in prison cell as one of them waits for their execution before dawn. http://www.laindependentfilm.com

The Rhythm of Time

The Rhythm of Time

An incursion in a documentary form in the world of emerging Algerian music . On camera, succeed artists and bands with various influences , which are at the heart of this new wave . From Algiers to Oran.

By Elias Djemil

Symphony of the forest

Symphony of the forest

A man depressed by an irreparable loss and about to take a final decision is called by a friend offered him a new life abroad. He think that moving to a new countrie it may help to solve his problems, but their problems not only unresolved, but they ...

By Martin Chertudi

The Voice of the Voiceless

The Voice of the Voiceless

"CHAPLIN MEETS ERASERHEAD� IN THIS MAGICAL-NEO-REALIST, MODERN DAY SILENT FILM. LA VOZ DE LOS SILENCIADOS takes us inside the mind and heartbreak of Olga, a deaf teenager brought from Latin America to New York City, under the false promise of at ...

By Maxim�n Monihan

In Live ...

When death in live ? Fred producer of talk show prepares for the first time on a French channel, an exclusive face to face, between a CEO and a Worker...the emission will be out of control http://lancelotmingau.wix.com/endirectsur

By Lancelot Mingau

PARENTELL

Ana goes on a road trip with Boy , her boyfriend, to kill her father Nuno . Ana takes a trip through the Alentejo in a metaphorical journey into the deep inside of her in parallel with her quest for majority

By Jo�o Bordeira

For more than sixty years, the residents of the west of La Pampa have been suffering a process of desertification of their region. After the construction of the dam �El Nihuil� in San Rafael, Mendoza, in 1947, the Atuel river�s flow was interrupted b ...

By Valeria Tochi

A Saga

Leo, Ricardo, Marcos, To�o and Roberto are brothers and all of them played for Real Madrid, known as "The Azcona", five brothers, one dream. Twenty years later they look back to those glorious days http://unasagadocumental.yolasite.com/

...and Exitus

A modern, surreal fairytale about 29-year-old Werner Lenz who, after trying to commit suicide, finds himself on a supernatural journey with personalized Death. Along the road they witness oil spills and car accidents, war prisons and hospitals... and ...

By Oliver Ziegler

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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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