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A man has a panic attack in the street overnight. Why?

By David Castro Gonz�lez

Amor a Primera Vista

Amor a Primera Vista

The heart-warming story of a lonely young man and his increasingly creative attempts to attract the attention of the girl of his dreams. A Gentle film of hope and optimism

Pero Vengo

"En 'Pero vengo', cortometraje de Carlos Callero sobre un poema de Mario Benedetti, se exhibe con lucidez el perfil emocional de una conciencia capaz de transformar la angustia en vitalidad. Conciencia cr�tica como �ltimo refugio de los valores que no ...

By Carlos Callero

Coup Foireux

Outdoor, this is war. Charly comes to take refuge in an abandoned car and decides to make a video diary of his survival in this chaos.

By Jean David IZAMBARD

90 Secondes avant la Fin du Monde

90 Secondes avant la Fin du Monde

A crazy Preacher tell us what will happen the last 90 seconds of our humanity!

By Jean David IZAMBARD

21.12.2012 12:21

21.12.2012 12:21

December 21, 2012, the world has missed a terrible catastrophe. Today, everything is fine, but do you know what really happened that day? With this short film, you will accompany Tony and finally know the truth, and most importantly, what we have ...

By Jean David IZAMBARD

Girasol

On Halloween night a couple with 47 years of marriage discusses who of them have to open the door to children and where those chocolates came from.

By Alfredo Hueck

Paquete #3

Package # 3 is a Venezuelan political satire. El Cholo, a Peruvian taxi driver, flees from the justice of his country and comes to Venezuela looking for a better future. After encountering a band of swindlers...Wait a minute. Venezuela? Really?

By Alfredo Hueck

STARCI

Three life backgrounds and three different ways of thinking related to one story. This film shows how entirely different people: a poet, a former headmistress of the home for elderly people and a married couple end up in the same place, in one Home f ...

By SANJA PADJEN

In Balkans every generation has its war. Sons are continuing fights started by their fathers. There are rifles and pistols in every hand. Concentration of arms has reached a critical point. Even the smallest incident would be disastrous to this fragi ...

By SANJA PADJEN

Epiphany

Adam is contacted by a mysterious man, who calls himself 'the Messenger' and tells him that his world isn't real and that he is actually a character in a movie.

Amaral

A busca dos sonhos passa pelos mais inesperados lugares. Amaral caminha pelo centro da cidade procurando inspira��o para seu filme experimental. O filme convida a uma reflex�o sobre a liberdade do fazer art�stico, quem tem direito de sonhar? Espa�ol La b ...

By Germano de Sousa

Innocent

A former contract killer tells his daughter how a young girl has changed his life in the past. A story about innocence, war and the abyss of the human mind, told by someone who is both...perpetrator and victim.

Sal, Duna, Lamparina

Sal, Duna, Lamparina

Uma hist�ria de supera��o e amor �s suas origens. Com a for�a caracter�sticas dos grandes l�deres, do alto dos seus 64 anos, Dona Maria do Celso segue sua caminhada em busca de melhorias para sue povo. Em meio a um cen�rio exuberante uma comunidade quase invis�vel lu ...

By Germano de Sousa

Homem Beija-Flor

Homem Beija-Flor

A small view on the life and artwork of the artist Bispo do Ros�rio. The film shows some moments of the life of this intriguing man who was able to mix different realities in his work.

By Coletivo Pitoresco

Action Painting

Action Painting

Un empresario es detenido mientras viaja a Suiza con una importante cantidad de dinero en su poder. Acusado de blanqueo de capitales y evasi�n fiscal, hace saber a sus abogados que dispone de de una peque�a fortuna para sufragar los gastos de su inminente ...

By Alfonso D�ez Veiga

A Place to Fight

A Place to Fight

Cockfight is widely spread but still illegal in Indonesia. The film gives an inside look far away from tourism.

By Matthias Lawetzky

Hidrofobia

Sitting on the edge of a swimming pool, while gathers courage to enter the water, the filmmaker reflects on his others fears and frustrations that chase him for life and from which he tries to hide himself, through his films.

By Carlos Eduardo Macagi

The cutest most perfect brazilian mockumentary, compared to "Spinal Trap" and "Grizzly Man" by many. "The Life and Death of the Reincarnaion of Gurcius Gewdner" records the exciting and brief saga of the reincarnation of the famous "filmmaker of l ...

By Carlos Eduardo Macagi

Alejandro M, Guitarrista y voz l�der de Los �ltimos Rom�ntikos, la primera banda post punk de Cali, atraviesa una crisis creativa aislado en una caba�a en el bosque. Lejos de la ciudad, sumergido en sus deseos y recuerdos es consciente de todo lo que demanda ...

By Marco Paredes Manzano

Welcome Goodbye

Welcome Goodbye

Currently, Berlin is experiencing the highest growth rate of tourism in the world, a situation not everyone is happy about. Fear of gentrification, animosity towards tourists, feeling one�s very existence is endangered � the documentary sets out to c ...

By Alfred Exner

Sirenita

This movie is a portrait about Carolin Hartmann, a young woman who suffers from a degenerative neuralgic illness, or yet not? What or who dictates if we are sick or not? And what is the role of the mind and society by such an illness? In this movie m ...

ANTES DE ENTRAR

ANTES DE ENTRAR

S�o Paulo. A girl gets into a lift. The nonstop elevation puts her perception of reality in check.

By Ivan Maia Lemos

sunshine through the rain

sunshine through the rain

What language is ours? Wich culture, wich place, wich time? Wich feelings own ourselves, wich ones are universal? What is the influence of the politics, the economy, the nation and the nationality on our destiny? A reenacment of a visa "drama", an ...

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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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