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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

None but a fool is always right

None but a fool is always right

The crazy one is just a common man, like many others. Dominated by anti-progress outbursts and by tenuous victim complex and faded out memories, he talks randomly without any common thread, sitting down in a real or imaginary space, on edge between a ...

By Paolo Fulvio Mazzacane

Therapy

Ready to confront her darkest memories, Jacqui finds herself in the office of Dr. Barnes, a man who may have dark memories of his own. Though heavily scarred, Jacqui will face her history at any cost. The hardest part will be deciding what she must d ...

By Melissa De Leon

JANAA

Janaa is a poor village girl. She is a widow and mentally ill who wonders in whole village. After the suicide of her husband she became mentally ill and it led to a complex mental disorder forcing her to roam without proper clothes and bathing. As a ...

By Rajendra Dhamane

Kato Therapy

Three short stories illustrate psychological terms while telling the larger tale of a zine in a small town threatening to expose a terrible secret.

The Yellow Cake

The Yellow Cake

Dealing with the idea that Saddam Hussein has got a mini atomic bomb ( dirty ) is a matter that contains so much of truth, attraction and suspense since it is a matter that people were concerned with and its unexpectedly we deal with because of its ...

By Awat Osman Ali

CountDown

Happy-go-lucky Maryam has had a very troubled upbringing. Her repressed childhood memories blocked out the war in Iraq and the distant memories of her family. A student reading for a B.A. in drama, Maryam had made her own destiny.

By Awat Osman Ali

Andr�s, a civil servant living with his invalid mother, feels isolated from his workmates due to a walking disability. His hapiness lies in plotting a sinister scheme. http://www.paycom.es/

By Mart�n Garrido Ramis

I, the WORST of ALL

I, the WORST of ALL

When a woman tries to break up with her boyfriend of five years she finds that the consequences are unpredictable. http://www.imperatorpictures.com

By Francisco Lupini Basagoiti

Life is good

A sad child with her teddy bear ready to commit suicide...should life give her a chance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26JeRVMmyrk

By Arif Ismayilov

Made of dirt

a guy uses his sexual desires to think, he tries to hares and get girls all the time, he watches porn when he wakes up and before he sleeps, his life is full of dirt, but he will learn a lesson at the end will never forget will change his life foreve ...

By moustafa elmeligy

The Delirious Paradox

The Delirious Paradox

Everything seems perfect until one day everything seems unreal...

By Prasoon Ravindran

Black August

India, 1975. In a remote part of the country a young banker helps a girl stranded on a dirt road, but what begins as an innocent encounter takes an unexpected turn.

By William Stewart

Bingen

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By Ander Odriozola

PERCENTAGE

A female NYPD police officer who has a super power that could see people's percentages on their top. Higher the percentages mean better the persons are.From a good person to a bad person, maybe it's just a matter of a single choice you make. http:// ...

By muzappar osman

The Ukrainians

The film is a story of creating a new Ukrainian Army. The insurgent nation overthrew the criminal government and drove out the vassals of the Russian Empire. The enraged colonizer sent its troops to Ukraine and captured some of the territories. The P ...

By Oksana Artemenko

Magic Room

A failed magician and his assistant devise a way to play to an eternal full house.

By Craig Nelson

Guardian

The nation�s most wanted technology thief makes a daring bid to secure his most valuable prize to date: his son�s life.

By Javier Chacon

ANYA

Twenty years in the life of a Russian orphan. https://vimeo.com/92952699

By Damien O'Connor

Betina Bracciale suffers from acute phobia of snakes since she can remember. Eduardo Iacono, her psychoanalyst for ten years, has always tried to rationalize this fear by applying the theory that snakes can�t live in ...

By Melina Marcow

Parallels

In a city full of thousands of people, two strangers live strikingly parallel lives. http://www.missashproductions.com/shorts-iii.html

By Ashleigh Coffelt

Safe Space

Patrick and Sara lives a love story. But they are also fighting together for refugee rights in Berlin. When harmless advance turns into a sexual assault, the group is forced to rethink their aims and the private story grows to an unwanted public dime ...

Lucia lives in a world of her own, keeping her loneliness at bay with her own makeshift pastimes. Wandering around the forest where she lives, she begins collecting all manner of insects in a glass jar. http://www.pequenofilm.com

By Anna Bogutskaya

Agoraphobia

Cezara, a 20-year-old girl slowly starts acknowledging her disturbing routine. She finds herself in a trigger point of her life where the docile social awkwardness transforms into agoraphobia and takes over. http://www.miroimages.com/agoraphobia.html

By Miro Mastropasqua

Loneliness is a bear hugging you, He or she does not want to leave you. The bear is with you 24 hours a day. He or she wakes up with you, has bath and breakfast with you. He or she rides a bike and goes to work with you. It is not easy to get rid of ...

By almir correia

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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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