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Wave of Laure

In 2050, Laure, 30, a working woman, wakes up and goes to work. But this day, everything is different. When she tries to talk to her neighbours, her colleagues or her best friend, nobody hears her, and she can't hear anyone as well. The situation ...

By Benzemrane lynda

Neuron Forest

'Neuron forest' is a term used by scientists to describe the complex and intricate connections of billions of nerve cells in the brain. http://cargocollective.com/sayonaralooloo

By Kaori Hoshina

Smarrita

Cinco estudiantes internacionales buscan un ave perdida durante su �ltimo d�a de visita en Italia.

By Alejandra Ortiz Araujo

POR HORAS

Dos amigas alquilan su sof� por horas para ganar un dinero extra.

By Eva Mar�a Fern�ndez

Lunatic

Let's assume a girl is breaking up with her boyfriend, because she fell in love with a disabled man. Let's assume her boyfriend thinks it's ridiculous and decides to protect her from her choice. And let's remember he's a good guy and has no evil inte ...

By Elzbieta B. Wysocka

A report about Mina

A report about Mina

Mina is a woman of the slums in Tehran. She is living in ruins surrounded by the junk and wearing men clothes. All her womanish dream is having a normal life. Because of this dream, she has decorated ruined walls with items collected in junk. She lov ...

By Kaveh Mazaheri

Rio de Janeiro. While the world over turns to the World Cup and to its controversies, a country's passion for its national team plays as the background to a family's journey. Between religious faith and that placed in football, Detinha, Miramar, Cris ...

By StefanoBertolino

Bright Black

A desperate painter's struggle with artistic and financial hardship propels him on a fantastic journey transforming his view of reality.

Nuit Noire

A bloody plunge into the world of street prostitution and human misery ...

ligia

Retrato de Ligia, una mujer gitana rumana que lee las cartas de su hija confinado a una prisi�n y que nos dice da la vida despu�s 15 a�os en campamento de barracas en la periferia de Bari, en el sur de Italia, y de su deseo de finalmente de haber una casa.

By giovanni princigalli

many beautiful things - tanti beddi cosi

many beautiful things - tanti beddi cosi

"Tanti Beddi Cosi� ( �Many beautiful things�) is the expression used by Vincent Schiavelli to wish people the best of things. �Many beautiful things� also happened to Schiavelli in the last years of his life: he is mostly remembered for his role in � ...

By Aurelio Gambadoro

For The Blinds

The stories in the film take place in parallel realities where people live only for a certain period of time in parallel realities. The memories of the people are erased periodically and replaced with the memories of another individual. Adjustments a ...

2014: a srilankan odyssey

2014: a srilankan odyssey

Cada rinc�n del mundo nos puede sorprender con sus personajes y las historias que �stos tienen para compartir. En Sri Lanka encontramos a alguien que ayud� a darle vida a una de las pel�culas m�s importantes de la historia del cine. Este documental es el prime ...

By Federico Vico

Mouldy Memories

Mouldy Memories

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

By Anti Naulainen

GastroNomads

This film explores issues of migration, belonging and food preferences in the specific context of five migrant women from different parts of the world, now living in London. They all work for Maz� Mas, a roaming restaurant that creates employment oppor ...

By Annebel Huijboom

MALLEUS

1486, Henri Institoris, inquisiteur de l'�glise, est l'auteur principal du livre le plus destructeur du XV�me si�cle: le Malleus Maleficarum, ce livre est une lutte contre la sorcellerie et qui pendant plus de 200 ans a fait des milliers de morts en Europe ...

By Jaquet Lo�c

Let Me Help You

Let Me Help You

Aya is having a wonderful day, when all of a sudden she finds herself chasing a couple of bicycle thieves. She manages to reach and with a hard blow knock them to the ground. The sight of blood and the severe injuries flood Aya with feelings of gu ...

By Leon Livshitz

THE FALL AND THE RISE AND THE FALL

THE FALL AND THE RISE AND THE FALL

This movie is a statement and a research about the similarities between the ideal city of Mahagonny and a new 'promise land- utopia'. Is a feature docu-drama project which is based on a song and also on an operetta which deals with the migration of a ...

By THANASIS TATAVLALIS

Antes do Inverno

Antes do Inverno

Documentary that, with a certain sensibility, tells about traditional fishing of mullet (tainha) and their fisher men, in a small city Bombinhas, in the south coast of Brazil.

By Santiago Jos� Asef

Dia da Mentira

�Dia de la Mentira� es una oda a la lucha simb�lica, un Desfi&scracho carnavalesco, un sue�o radical de cambio traducido en est�tica f�lmica, porque la imaginaci�n molesta a mucha gente.

By Thiago B. Mendon�a

O canto da lona

O canto da lona

Entonces nosotros llamamos el circo de nuestro mundo, es nuestro mundito. Para afuera del cercado es el mundo que es el mundo. Para adentro del cercado es nuestro mundo.

By Thiago B. Mendon�a

Piove, il film di Pio

Piove, il film di Pio

"Piove" no es un retrato del cineasta olvidado Pio Zamuner. Es el establecer de una relaci�n entre dos directores y el explicar de sus reglas. El retrato de una pasi�n compartida por dos generaciones. Pero, �qui�n dirige a qui�n?

By Thiago B. Mendon�a

Vino de moras

"Vino de moras" es un fragmento de la infancia vivida y so�ada a principios de los 80. "Blackberry wine" is a piece of childhood lived and dreamed in the early 80's.

By Juan Jos� Bors

SUMMERTIME

Jeanne lives alone in her two-room apartment, dividing her days between the time spent entertaining men and her hopes of becoming an actress. Her life is completely unsettled... and that morning, a little more so.

By Fabrice Cilpa

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The Model
Fourteen Days
La Descorrupcion
Yomigaeru To Live Again
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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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