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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

The Breaking Statues

The Breaking Statues

Family is breaking apart, factory closes - scarred memories breaks open! Patric tries to fix his mistakes, but falls again to weakness and haunting daydreams. When fathers deeds runs in blood, can Patric change his destiny? http://Patsaatkuolevat.fi

EMPATHY

It is a story about a Man who going to sell his KIDNEY for His Mentally Challenged Son on free Classified website.

By PRASHANT PANDE

The Tempest

John hasn't left his house in a while, until finally someone tries to break his routine and lead him outside. Will he gather the courage to follow them?

By Todor Bradev

Larks & Owls

Film is about old people who are living in a charity house named "Katharsis". They're struggling in this life, have social problems, some nostalgia about old times, feelings, fear of death and regrets. These stories are evolving around main protagoni ...

By Bakar Cherkezishvili

Hidden Agenda

Hidden Agenda is about a legendary Miami, Florida Detective named Matthews (played by Hans Hernke) who gained his reputation by solving cases from his office, but when an aggressive serial killer threatens his city, he is forced to leave the confines ...

Seven lives come together amid the stench of beer and tobacco smoke in an apartment block where single rooms are for rent and the bathroom is in the hall. Only friendship, mutual aid and a healthy sense of humour allow these men, scarred by self-dest ...

By Simon Gaudreau

Shooting on the Rim

Shooting on the Rim

A documentary team set out to chart the production of a British pornographic film with a difference. What follows is a fly-on-the-wall view of the highs and lows of adult filmmaking. Personalities clash, protests rage and accidents happen. ? Who ...

Fragments

A couple is going through a difficult period.Still they recall to their minds fragments of their happiness.to revive their relationship they decide to go back where their love blossomed and decide to give it a try in a last desperate attempt.Will the ...

By Raffaello Sasson

Out of Focus

This is a film about Afshin Naghouni, an Iranian-British disable painter who has fallen down from seventh floor of a building while he was escaping from Iran polices� attack to a birthday party in Tehran and his spinal cord severely injured. He came ...

By Shahriar Siami Shal

The Other Dreamers - Short Version for Festivals

The Other Dreamers - Short Version for Festivals

The Other Dreamers is a special documentary about a group of disabled children in Israel. During a whole year, the film follows their dreams and hopes. Beyond the personal, touching story of each child, the film shows the difference between the volun ...

On Tiptoes

Liron is a kindergarten teacher and a full-time mother. After she realizes that her daughter, Lital, has development problems, Liron starts a journey, which affects her entire family. On her journey to help Lital become a regular child, Liron exp ...

On the Edge

Alona immigrated from Ukraine to Israel when she was 13. Her life story has always brought her in the direction to abyss, Almost falling down, almost becoming crazy, almost dying. When all of her attempts to belong anywhere fail, Alona starts going d ...

Globe Trot

An international crowd-sourced dance-film project, as 50 filmmakers on all seven continents each shoot two seconds of dance by choreographer Bebe Miller. http://www.mitchellrose.com/globetrot/

By Mitchell Rose

Dementia

Dementia portrays the experiences of a young man, confined to the four walls of a house, succumbing to madness. In a claustrophobic environment, lost in time, the young man gradually loses his sanity, becoming an element of that dark space.

By Rafael Almeida

Funny Man

A aloof comedian with a ruthless drive to succeed, finds himself caught in a series of events that turn his night upside down. In order to survive, he must think in black and white.

In Debt

Jonathon is a simple man wanting to do the right thing. Naomi is a woman pushed to the brink with rage. When these two characters collide after a blood-splattered massacre, dark truths are revealed. Inspired by the gritty cinema of the Far East, this ...

By Johann Chipol

The Pain

Everyday violence in the household plagues the childhood of a girl. The helplessness and anxiety that arises from such an experience builds in her as she grows up. Her aversion to authority manifests itself in extreme outcomes later.

By Ritesh Sharma

Athens Fail Better

Athens Fail Better

Athens,a dystopian city were legends are born and dreams are destroyed.Despair,surveillance,order,a skateboard. http://www.margotfilhmouse.com

By Stratis Chatzielenoudas

VLADIMIR

The film is born from a not-so-incidental meeting between Manuel Dias and the maker of Vladimir (the puppet), who travels between Siberian Russia and �vora to celebrate life and, to that effect, pay homage to Man, of flesh and bone, capable of beli ...

A.D.I.D.A.S

A small asteroid A.D.I.D.A.S is approaching to the Earth. Meanwhile, the businessman Vitaly turns to psychologist Stas with a very delicate problem. The thing is that the fiance of Vitaly Kate every time lovemaking requires... to strangle her. Stas ...

By Fedor Konstantinovich

A sad ballerina made of plasticine

A sad ballerina made of plasticine

Wandering through the lines of a life time, a sad ballerina walks her way between parallel existences. Exploring the relationship between body and space, drawing movements of continuity balanced by the sound of the imaginary she transforms rea ...

Candles

Candles is about a women named Kerry Whitman. Kerry is a disturbed women but a very loving mother of one who has found herself alone in her home celebrating the ninth birthday of her son Carter Whitman. Carter, according to the "reality" Kerry lives ...

By brittani nightengale

Shot in a Japanese theme park that replicates a Dutch town, Veni Vidi Nescio explores ideas of displacement and dislocation through conversations between two Amsterdammers as they discuss home, work and responsibility. On screen we meet two Japanes ...

By Christopher Holloran

Market day

Andre , 85 years, lost his wife a few months. Fortunately, Ophelia is there to help in everyday life. Today is market day and Ophelia has an appointment with her lawyer . http://www.brigittelocicero.com/lejourdumarche.html

By Brigitte Lo Cicero

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Building bridges based on the
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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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