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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

What i love is you

What i love is you

I as the other

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 forced to v ...

By Po-Yang CHANG

The Visit

The brief visit in her father's nursing home turns into a journey through the narrow corridors of society.

By Inbar Horesh

The Long Haul

Conor and Pete have come to realise that their life of crime is dangerous. Now they want to get out of the business. Here goes nothing...

By Arran Tenzin Bradstock

Stark Electric Jesus

Stark Electric Jesus

After the historical verdict of Indian Supreme Court on IPC 377, an unnatural man finds himself in the cage of hallucination. He runs his night and days with his "unnatural" dream and fantasy like an outmoded gun dreams to have its last fire from its ...

By Hyash Tanmoy

An obsolete altar

An obsolete altar

Rape is a social cancer. Woman is victimized everywhere. The country is roaring. The intellects are walking with candles. The government pay the allowances to the victim. The oppositions are taking the advantage. The process of purgation has been alr ...

By Hyash Tanmoy

Say It Wisely

Boris finds out he might die soon and also has a problem with himself. He needs to somehow explain this to Loris, his husband. He tries hard and finally he succeeds in a creative way.

A Guy Going Crazy

A Guy Going Crazy

A Guy Going Crazy follows Felix a budding comedian / filmmaker who's given the opportunity to make a web show that can jump start his career. However he soon learns how difficult that may be when his overbearing mother, drama queen girlfriend, stoner ...

It's Drizzling

Three teenagers set a beauty trap for a man but failed. They thought they accidentally killed the man! Therefore they decided to abscond to Thailand. Youth is just like a drizzle. When you look back on those days, there was nothing but some ambiguous ...

By Chien Hung Lien

What I Had For Breakfast This Morning

What I Had For Breakfast This Morning

A history lesson about the elements of a common breakfast.

By Patrick Williams Jr.

Arena

A hitchhiker is taken in by a remote Polish mountain community. Tested by the hardened locals and the unforgiving harshness of his new environment he constitutes his presence in the mountains. But to whom do we have to prove of what we're made? htt ...

Dead Inside

"Everything Comes with a price"...... "Dead Inside" is a supernatural thrillerabout a man who loses the love of his life and the road to get her back leads him to very dark places.

By Mohamed Khalifa

Irreversible

After a car accident, a man is facing his entire existence and finds himself unable to control his own destiny.

By Raymond Popa

Mining Moon

Agent Akowi goes deep undercover to expose renegade weapon sales from a remote lunar mining outpost. As she infiltrates a dangerous universe of deception and slavery, will her sympathies for the plight of the arms dealer's slaves compromise her missi ...

By Brian Morelan

Journey to the Maggot Feeder

Journey to the Maggot Feeder

� Journey to the Maggot Feeder" tries to solve the mystery of a bizarre Arctic fairy tale. Priit Tender, an Estonian animator, makes a film about an old Chukchi legend � The Maggot Feeder. The unconventional narrative finds misunderstanding in the we ...

By Liivo Niglas

Turned Inside Out

Turned Inside Out

Trapped between fear and shame, Michelle Dern must break through the mental and physical walls of her self-constructed cage or face certain death. With the aide of two similarly afflicted women, Michelle reaches the brink of sanity to discover that e ...

Promise

Based on one promise which is built around suspense and Film is based on one promise built around suspense and dramatic situations related to it. Promises are there to be fulfilled. But now a days promises are mostly broken, forgotten or ignored. In ...

By Sunil Sanjan

He Never Said a Word

He Never Said a Word

A man is haunted one night by a mysterious stranger in his yard.

Because of Mum

A poetic animated reflection about memories, childhood and upbringing. A girl's message to her Mother. http://www.activist38.com/activist38-film-company/because-of-mum-en.html

By Alexander Ugrinski

Uncle Tony, Three Fools and the Secret Service

Uncle Tony, Three Fools and the Secret Service

Documentary that has attracted outrage in its home country for revealing the power-play and intrigue underlying Bulgaria�s animation history. http://www.activist38.com/activist38-film-company/uncle-tony-en.html

By Alexander Ugrinski

Adrian is a fourteen year old boy that, with the desire to buy a game console, starts working as a bagger for a supermarket. There he will discover, from its teen looking, realities he still ignores.

By Fabi�n Le�n L�pez

Rabbit Punch

Rabbit Punch tells the story of best friends Sonny and Luke and the breakdown of their friendship in the lead up to their first competitive boxing match. http://www.neilhartop.com

The Last Client

The Last Client

In 2053, time traveling is a profitable business. Time Contractors can take clients through time for a hefty fee. One night, a Time Contractor is approached by a mysterious client. http://thelastclientshortfilm.blogspot.com

Entrophy

Contemporary Russia,the first summer after the strange inaguration of Putin which foreshadowed a presidency that would soon become a dynasty. Opposition leader , tv and media star, movie Diva and conceptual artist obsessed with cinema play them ...

By Maria Saakyan

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Building bridges based on the
belief that film becomes art
only when its materials are as
inexpensive as pencil & paper

Cine Pobre is the 100%
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culture and capabilities
[ Call for Entries 2025 ]

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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