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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

Paolo's dream

24 hours (really, only this long?...) in the life of Mr. Paolo Teobaldelli. Is this enough to truly understand a man who declares that he lives like a rat on the rooftop of a destroyed building in the �tough area of Exarcheia�? (Area in Athens, Greec ...

By Kirineos Papadimatos

Fifth Floor

We see something about a man with potential, a man who should not exist in a city like this. It is a wolf with a man's mask, or a man with a secret?

By Matheus Antunes

After School Special

After School Special

Elizabeth Richardson is a teenager plagued by amnesia. She finds herself in therapy trying to remember past events of two separate abductions less than a year apart from one another. In the process of uncovering the truth of what happened, she is fac ...

Ripped

An avid gym-goer joins a late night neighborhood gym where he finds an over enthusiastic personal trainer who takes a keen interest in his routine as things take an unexpected turn for the worst.

By Raveen Dev Jeyasingam

Symphony in 10kHz

Symphony in 10kHz

When it is so introspective that the most interpersonal interaction that's able to you it is with intangibilities; when your inner chaos isn't enough and you have no one to share it, all that remains is to turn this angst in art, dance, poem, film. " ...

By Bianca R�go

Uterus Diagram

"Uterus Diagram" is a poetic documentary of archive images that proposes reflections on our society, on the woman herself and her indecision about how to engage or disengage in these labels that persecute us since the �It�s a girl�, said the doctor.

By Bianca R�go

The Wallet

A young journalist and her friend investigate a letter they find in a lost wallet, that was written by a woman to her lost love, over fifty years ago. http://www.studiohousepictures.com/Films.php

By Rafael Sierra

Something Paradise

Something Paradise

With little luggage but a lot of hope and faith around 330 Tyrolean�s and 120 Rhinelander�s migrated in the mid-19th century to the Peruvian jungle. Their goal was to reach Pozuzo, an area which they got provided by the state of Peru. Around 160 ye ...

By Daniel Dlouhy

Devil's Deal

A young gambler enters a high stakes poker game that could cost him his soul.

By Nicole Jones-Dion

TRICOLOR HOTEL

Return home after 5 years working abroad, Nam struggle to find a job to take care of his 15-year-old niece, while her mother hid from the debt collectors. A stranger give Nam a weird job offer, which he has to escort his niece to the hotels to serves ...

By Trung Nguyen

Man-Kind

Tagline: One act of kindness can change everything. This short film tells the story of Tony Vargas, a middle-class working man who has secluded himself from the world after the passing of his girlfriend. He drags himself to work and has become so ...

ADAM MINUS EVE

In an post-apocalyptic world, six survivors find refuge in the haven of a priest haunted by a divine voice. After he blessed the soup, the priest wanders the empty streets, hoping to find survivors. Among car wrecks, he finds a woman almost dead, E ...

By Aur�lia Mengin

Dive

DIVE tells the story about Johan, a former fisherman, who lives a life full of routines: It�s all about swimming, chopping wood and fixing his rhubarb nest. When his son Andreas moves back home and starts to interfere with Johan�s life, their already ...

By Elisa Fernanda Pirir Ruiz

Catherine and atoms of a clueless soul

Catherine and atoms of a clueless soul

N� Visa: 141.449 Catherine, a 17 years old woman, extremely shy, meets Melanie. They quickly become friends. Catherine falls in love with Thierry, a young man with whom she will live a passion during a few months before she lost him of sight. Has h ...

By Alix VERONEZE

SACI Blues

A imagem atrav�s da imagem. Uma singela homenagem aos que fazem das mem�rias transeuntes, a sua arte. The image by image, a simple tribute to the making of passers memories, his art .

By ALONSO JABAR NESTTA Trilha

This is a story about women who survive, who are tenacious, sensitive, hopeful, brave, active. Capable of lifting cities and bringing life to the hardest landscape of the world, the Algerian Hamada in the Sahara Desert, capable of settling there. The ...

The Way

A young man with a strong ambition and great determination, decided to conquer towards its destiny. It thus chooses his voice, the way to go to reach his goal, and leaves only those means available; his legs, his will, and courage.

If I GIve My Soul

If I GIve My Soul

In Brazil, the inmates in prisons and jails are almost exclusively poor, black, uneducated males - society's lowest. In these previously unfilmed locations, �If I Give My Soul� examines how five Brazilian inmates have coped with this profound social ...

By Andrew Johnson

Lapsus

Terry is a psychologically disturbed predator whose sinister playground is a laundromat. Terry thinks he is the hero of a comic gangster that is reading : � Terry Laurence, Gentleman Gangster �. That is when his memory playing tricks on him. Ter ...

By Karim Ouaret

Farewell

A modest musician has a tour launch party and his manager arrives with some surprising life-changing news. http://farewelltheshortfi.wix.com/trailer

By Colin Zimmerman

SCREW

A young man, determined to recreate a catalog photo of the perfect apartment, turns to prostitution to get the cash. But there's more to the photo than he knows. SCREW is an experimental thriller that exposes the sinister side of perfection, and what ...

Balloon with cream

Balloon with cream

"An old camera, found in a trunk, will take you back to 1914, in Turin. The meeting between Ernesto, an aspiring photographer and Olivia, daughter of a film producer, will be the beginning of an exhilarating adventure. "Balon" with cream: a tribute t ...

By Enrico Mondino

Psychosis

A commentary on domestic violence - an imprisoned WWII veteran relives his dark past.

Beyond

A woman has to cope with the death of her best friend while he is living his first moments in a lyric journey in the beyond where he is welcomed by a mysterious person

By Serena Corvaglia

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Building bridges based on the
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Cine Pobre is the 100%
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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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