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The PC is under the effects of a strange virus. Leo, Clara, Arturo, Juan and Bea, a group of old friends, have agreed to drink, smoke and wander together while a helicopter of the police department flies over the city. El ordenador est� afectado por ...

By Rafael H. de Dios

Eyeshadow palette in rainbow colors. A blond woman starts speaking about her childhood in Yugoslavia, as she was still, in everyone�s eyes, a little boy. Psychiatrists� threats, military service, school mother or religion didn�t bridle her conviction ...

By DZMP Luksuz produkcija

Simulacro

A man and his TV

By Miguel Moura

OME: Tales from A Vanishing Homeland

OME: Tales from A Vanishing Homeland

English: Filmed in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon in the Yasuni biosphere, �OME: Tales From a Vanishing Homeland� offers incredible access to the unique and ancient way of life of the Huaorani, one of Ecuador�s most isolated indigenous groups. O ...

By Raul O Paz astrana

INFERNO

Crack users and former users' poinst of view.

By Thiago Moulin

Buenos Aires Rap

Buenos Aires Rap

Nacido en el Bronx hace m�s de 30 a�os, el hip hop es uno de los ritmos predominantes en el mundo. Buenos Aires Rap muestra la influencia del hip hop en Buenos Aires y de Buenos Aires en el hip hop. Esta apropiaci�n no est� exenta de conflictos: marginal ...

By Segundo Bercetche

Theodoros Papayannis: Epistrofi sto Elliniko

Theodoros Papayannis: Epistrofi sto Elliniko

The sculptor Theodoros Papayannis gathers friends, collaborators and apprentices in his birthplace, the village Elliniko in Epirus, Greece, and creates a route of sculptures from the village�s entry towards the historical monastery of Tsouka. The scu ...

By Panayotis Kravvaris

Tierra Caliente

Tierra Caliente

A normal day for a Michoacan�s family. Drug dealers came to collect every month�s fee. They�re charged for the so called �ground due�, (a fixed cost to finance mob�s costs) This has happenned since ten years ago. For how long are the Michoacan pe ...

By Jos� Miguel Gonz�lez

Marx Pode Sair

Amanda, Z�, Miguel, um apartamento e Karl Marx / Amanda, Z�, Miguel, un apartamiento y Karl Marx / Amanda, Z�, Miguel, an apartment and Karl Marx.

By Carolina Caniato

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

By Trung Nguyen

Teresa

Despu�s de veinte a�os, Teresa, una mujer que fue olvidada por su gran amor, decide quemar su pasado.

La Gran Victoria del Chacho

La Gran Victoria del Chacho

Sinopsis breve �pica historia de amor entre un humilde gaucho del Norte argentino que lucha por la libertad de su pueblo y una joven mujer de buena posici�n que deja todo para seguirlo. A Film by Alfredo Narv�ez The Great Victory of Chacho Epic love ...

By Alfredo Narv�ez

MARE BIANCO

Mazara del Vallo, the Italian point that leans towards Africa, is a city that still exudes its long history of relations between the two coasts of the Mediterranean. Against the backdrop of this border place, two �trips" are intertwined for chapters: ...

By Alessandro Renda

Arts Are Ogants Asks

Arts Are Ogants Asks

In an interview video I'm asked which do I consider to be the top 5 artists in the world today. The answers describe practices and projects of artists from countries far from the art world spotlight (with the exception of Poland). The described artis ...

By Rafael Garrdo

Non Scordarti

Summer of 2012. A small country town has been recently struck by a huge earthquake. Young Clara, trying to preserve a place that has been important during her growth, starts wandering among people and places, between her past and her present. The jou ...

By Alessandro Sala

A bad expression, an insult, a cry, a shove, a beating... and nothing matters, it's just the day-to-day. A telephone rings and a voice is heard: he, a young and nice man; she, a woman who only get him into troubles. Eva and Nacho, or any other names, ...

Crocodile Tears

Crocodile Tears

He waits. He's sad. He's kind and shy. He loves. He swears and never lies. He's swimming alone all the time and very many tears he cries.

By Anna Mila Stella

Io Odio Shakespeare

Io Odio Shakespeare

The Bard has spoken. You dare not say: "I Hate Shakespeare!"

By Anna Mila Stella

Grisi Siknis

Erika est� en busca de una cura a su enfermedad, en su camino su mejor amiga, Monica, la lleva a la casa donde vivi� su ni�ez, la casa que oculta los recuerdos que ha reprimido y que se supone deben ser iluminados. Ambas deben enfrentar extra�os personajes de s ...

By Luis Arnoldo Zavala Mu�oz

This was Hasankeyf

This was Hasankeyf

Imagine a marvelous rural place, millenary caves carved in the limestone, inside which you were born.. Imagine a childhood made of playing and fishing along the mythical Tigris river, providing your daily food mostly by yourself.. Then imagine yourse ...

By Tommaso Vitali

Mulheres de Pedra

Mulheres de Pedra

Mulheres de Pedra" � um coletivo colaborativo, aberto,independente, formado por uma rede de mulheres. Ele funciona desde 2001 em Pedra de Guaratiba, zona oeste do Rio de Janeiro.

a Mother (AAi)

AAi (mother) is a film about a mother�s unconditional love for her son, the film is her perspective of having a baby and watching her son grow up.. and everything that happens in the middle. The Film is set up in India and spawns over several years ...

By Aroop Dwivedi

February 28

A cancer survivor discovers that she has nothing in common with other people.

By Diana Galimzyanova

F/RNO

(experimental short film) You�ve heard this before. Love is lost as soon as you find it. ?The struggle for love is timeless. Some endeavors are exceptionally violent.? This is the story of Artemisia Gentileschi. A true creative spirit, portrayed ...

By David Latreille

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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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