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Bartosz Sikorski
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Santi Planet
Hemantkumar Mahale
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Francisco Varvar�
Sylwia Kubus
Julian Reboratti
Afshin Eisaei
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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

Trauma

When no one hears your cries for help.

By Hesam Dehghani

Light Room

A filmmaker is trapped in his imagination after pursuing the image of a woman that has been haunting his mind.

By Pouya Aghelizadeh

Plastic Flowers

Plastic Flowers

A village is abandoned after a jealous fairy poisoned their well.

By ?annis Zafiris

The Fortress

In a country where your life isn't worth squat, soccer is everything.

By Andr�s Torres

Bambiland

An abandoned amusement park serves as a creepy metaphor for a generation of Serbian millennials.

By Danilo Stanimirovi?

LILITS

A mysterious man has a sordid plan wherein three girls must smoke opium or escape before they are eliminated.

By Francisco Mu�oz

Into the Depths of Oil

Into the Depths of Oil

Highlighting the practical and ethical challenges faced by a Norwegian oil company operating in Brazil.

By Paloma Y��ez Serrano

Ciegos

A 13 year old boy discovers his path to adulthood as he travels with his blind veteran father to the city of his childhood.

By Fernando Zuber

Romulo

Two people maintain a relationship on the margins of society.

By Gast�n Volpi

Insane Love

After a young Italian fashion model falls desperately in love, he comes face to face with a bittersweet truth.

By Eitan Pitigliani

El Guardia

Can a young Latinx night watchman without education, no money and no connections succeed in achieving the American Dream?

Lord Finn

The free-spirited son of a Native American tribal councilman and an Irish mother attempts to navigate his worlds while hobbled by mental issues and staggering contempt for compromise.

Lone Wolves

Certain characters end up where they belong.

Instead of Leaving

Instead of Leaving

A group of transgender people struggle to avoid feeling as trapped in their old building in Bogot� as they have been in their bodies.

By Facundo Castro

Atacama

As the paths of a city slicker, a miner & an astronomer cross in the Atacama Desert, their ambition converges in the same miserable destiny.

By Enrique Bencomo

Untimely

In the heat of summer, a young private is manning a watchtower in the Balochistan region divided between Pakistan and Iran.

By Pouya Eshtehardi

Perfect Present

Perfect Present

Three flawed brothers go wild when the one woman they all love announces her pregnancy without revealing the father�s identity.

By Martijn Hullegie

Bubble Anons

Migrating from home to nowhere

By Mahmood Arib

A young girl is surprised by wedding preparations in her home only to discover that she is to be the bride.

La Trifulca II a five billion dollar trilogy

La Trifulca II a five billion dollar trilogy

Tijuana has been subject to a massive invasion of Hondurans escaping violence and poverty in Central America attempting to enter the US, one way or another.

By Arturo Pulido

Bashidan

A painter is attracted to his unwitting model.

By Homeira Bagheri

One Night

A middle aged Iranian widow suffers from fierce melancholia since the death of her husband.

By Aida Alimadadi

Oltre la crosta

Oltre la crosta

A young university student ponders over diseases and their ignored beauty

By Vanja Victor Kabir Tognola

LA DER DES DER

The last soldier of the first war wanted to get rid of the terrible burden that kept him alive.

By Patrice Guillain

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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%
self-funded intersection of
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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