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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

Hamule

In audio and videotapes from the 70s I encountered significant memories from my family in Palestine, which portray a brutal episode of the Israeli colonization in a land surrounded by war and pain. On one hand, Hamule reveals the historical and socia ...

By Mauricio Misle

The Reluctant Portrait

The Reluctant Portrait

A young South American artist�s peaceful life is interrupted when the police and a witness arrive at his painting studio. Forced to draw a portrait of a serial killer, the artist�s life is changed forever. https://juandiegomonsalve.squarespace.com/ ...

By Juan Diego Monsalve

Mother, Nature

A man and a woman, deliberately with no name, cut away from civilisation, surrounded by nature. Life and joy will be replaced by obsession and death.

By Maddalena Morganti

THE DOG 77

Max comes face to face with the difficulties of immigrant life. Being on the edge of despair accidentally find out from his friend how to earn fast money. Just to take participation in the experiment of Tom Otterness, who killed his dog for the art i ...

By Aksenov Ruslan

Hola America

The script is about a brother and sister from Mexico who entered the US following a group of Immigrants guided by a coyote to visit their undocumented father, but soon they will find themselves in the unforgiving streets of San Diego, California in ...

By Karim Missouri

Rhodes Learns from the Things

Rhodes Learns from the Things

The teacher tells Rhodes and the other children that all people are the same, later he hears the things in the class talking and tells them what he just learned. In the end he gets confused at home when he finds out from his father that people don't ...

When I stopped worrying about scoundrels

When I stopped worrying about scoundrels

Jo�o Carlos believes he is a political expert and thus becomes as annoying as the downtown taxi drivers. While chased by this ghost and going through a relationship crisis, an insight leads him to a rather radical path: get away from everything. http:/ ...

By Tiago Vieira

Serve the Sea

The time has arrived... Pleaded to Allah SWT, for Him to set apart any form of distress, for people to respect their fellow human beings and God is to bless fishermen in the area Sultanate of Serdang with significant increase in their catches. http ...

By Andi Hutagalung

The Bags, Probably 1971

The Bags, Probably 1971

A southern family of four is reincarnated during this hand-processed assemblage of their previously unearthed audio/visual keepsakes. http://thisisyates.com

By Joshua Yates

TAPIS ROUGE

A group of kids are hanging out in the street. One of them talks the others into making a movie. Helped by a social worker, they write a screenplay and then, head all the way to Cannes Film Festival in search of a producer. http://fb@freshprod.com

By Fr�d�ric Baillif

Abandoned Adopted Here

Abandoned Adopted Here

Identity, many of us take for granted. We see ourselves reflected back as we gaze into the eyes of our parents. What if your image isn't the same? What then? An independent documentary looking at identity, adoption, transracial adoption and being Br ...

The Visitor

Young Swedish woman Hanna comes home to her apartment for the evening. After a rather foreboding conversation with one of her friends involving recent disappearances in the area, she settles in to a seemingly hum-drum close of day. After hearing s ...

A mysterious message carried by a balloon sparks doubts, questions and an unexpected journey starting from Italy. Destination: the south of France. http://mercidemerepondre.weebly.com/

By Mariachiara Pernisa

CREAMEN

�Creamen�- taken from the latin word crimen, meaning �crime�, is a colorful, symbolic story about the global warming crisis, which brings together an unlikely group of anthropomorphic ice-creams who are forced to confront the challenge of a potential ...

By Esther Casas

BAM

Mariska is a big older girl and is very Lonely. She lives in a small boring town in The Netherlands and works in a supermarket. Everyday she eats her lunch alone in the parking lot. She has no friends and no love in her life. She tries to find a man ...

By Dennis Overeem

The Flagellant

Dehlia has always lived in a �greenhouse� of a wealthy and all-comfortable life, provided with everything she wanted by her loving husband and after his death - by her son Martin. When Martin turns 30, he makes a decision to stop what he has been d ...

By Maria Malukhina

Kurko (Tent)

The local police gives the boy named Sapar to his friend for the summer time in order he grazed sheep as corrective work for stealing chickens. In the pasture, he meets with Kyrgyz girl Aichurek where they have lunch and drink tea within a tent. Duri ...

By Darya Belkina

Buzzed

Kimi is a quiet, sweet librarian who spends most of her time lost in the world of her books. An old fling will ignite the addiction she hopes to keep at bay and from destroying her loving marriage to John. But when Kimi's controlling ex-lover Raul re ...

By Phillip Abraham

Forgotten Bird of Paradise

Forgotten Bird of Paradise

Filmed undercover, Forgotten Bird of Paradise provides a rare and moving insight into the struggle for independence that has gripped West Papua for the last 50 years.

By Dominic Brown

Pako

A soldier on military leave during the Iraqi-Iranian war comes home for his wedding. Upon returning to the front and discovering the rest of his unit either lost or dead he deserts.

By Shamal Sabri

Burning Snow

A priest is found dead in a church, and Detective Gabriel is put on the case. As Gabriel investigates, he is dragged on a existential journey where his personal demons come back to haunt him and the barriers of reality begins to crumble.

Half Past Midnight

Half Past Midnight

A girl experience the loss of innocence.

Hedgehog in Love

Hedgehog in Love

Experimental cartoon which unites various techniques - puppet, sand & water (ebru) animations. About friendship, love and necessity to pay attention not only to the visual appeal: � Remember this! Beauty can deceive. It�s what�s inside that cou ...

By Alexander Sparinsky

My Cake

Combining dance, mime and music, "My Cake" is a response to the saying "You can't have your cake & eat it too." The Villain looks back at his childhood, the day he discovers that the image others have of him does not match the one he has of himself. ...

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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 2026 ]

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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