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The Caller

Karan Malhotra, a very reserved guy, staying in mumbai, gets a call in the middle of the night. The unknown caller knows everything about Karan, and wants to play a dangerous Game. Who is he? Can Karan unfold the mystery?

By Yogesh Sharma

Genesis 2:8. �And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed�. In this story, Jo�o (Nuno Pardal) and Pedro (Pedro Sousa Loureiro) live in this garden. What Jo�o wants the most is for Pedro to be happy ...

By F�bio Freitas

Just Play

A group of men and women work with Al Kamandjati, a Palestinian Cultural Association, in the West Bank to turn music into a means of freedom and liberation. A film that sidesteps politics to make a powerful case for human dignity and art, and for the ...

By dimitri chimenti

3-1=0 (3-1=0)

Brutal and provocative, 3-1=0 could seem at first the simple story of a couple to become one that hits the viewer with its hardness. The death of Carlos and Lucia�s baby marks the starting point of a devastating experience for both of them.

Sho-Shan and the Dark Lady

Sho-Shan and the Dark Lady

This is an adaptation of the Mexican book of the same name about LUISA, a four year old girl with ASPERGER SYNDROME, who is accused of murdering of her best friend.

By Carlos Preciado

Love Thy Neighbor L'Amour de son prochain)

Love Thy Neighbor "L'Amour de son prochain)

(french language with english subtitles) Alain meets Estelle in unsetting circumstances. They'll then have to share a heavy secret. What they don't know is that a witness, Balthazar is watching them... On the verge of film noir and dark burlesq ...

By Benoit Maestre

Faces (Volti)

Riccardo is a child with Down syndrome with a burning passion for the theatre. Each afternoon, with the collusion of Mr. De Angelis, he sneaks into the small-town theatre in order to witness rehearsals featuring Mattia as he prepares for a show inspi ...

By Antonio De Palo

Kati V

A couple and their old, paralyzed father, are shut in their apartment of the fifth floor. The husband suggests to his wife that they leave, because Serb's could come and kill them. But they don't know what to do with this sick old man.

By Ben Apolloni

People in the Trees

People in the Trees

After Ellie Burroughs celebrates her last day of school by doing an obscene amount of MDMA, she finds herself alone in the woods with a cult.

DAR HE: The Lynching of Emmett Till

DAR HE: The Lynching of Emmett Till

In an acting tour de force, one man performs 36 roles in the telling of the Emmett Till tragedy. In DAR HE: The Lynching of Emmett Till (*15 BEST FILM AWARDS*), experience the story, trial, and unbelievable confessions of those accused of Emmett's mu ...

By Rob Underhill

Bragg N East

"...ART THAT HAS MEANING not only for the city but also the neighborhood" ?NEWS & OBSERVER (Newspaper Front Page Story) "HEARTFELT story." ?Alex Kendrick, director of FIREPROOF Inspired by true events, a life shattering tragedy unites two forme ...

By Rob Underhill

MONEY 1955: The Emmett Till Murder Trial

MONEY 1955: The Emmett Till Murder Trial

*BEST DRAMA* at the 2014 Wilmington Film Awards. In MONEY 1955, international press descend on a remote Tallahatchie County, Mississippi courthouse and draw the world's attention to the murder trial of two white men accused of the horrific lynchin ...

By Rob Underhill

Timed Romance

Romance is all about the timing. Timed Romance shows "roots from the best of Alfred Hitchcock, The Twilight Zone and perhaps Tales From The Crypt." �DEAD, BURIED, AND BACK!

By Rob Underhill

The Carrington Event

The Carrington Event

News of a massive solar flare, one more immense than the famous "Carrington Event" of 1859, goes viral. Soon after, the power is out, phone's dead, water taps dry, and radio is just static. Days pass with no news, just people getting more crazy. Week ...

By Rob Underhill

The Cameraman

A wannabee filmmaker's documentary turns into a real life horror story.

By Rob Underhill

The Agent

In THE AGENT, Don Reynolds must act out the demise written for him... or fight for his soul. THE AGENT is brought to you by the Telly and Emmy award-winning team based in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina: Director and Producer ROB UNDERHILL and Cine ...

By Rob Underhill

Wolf Call

WOLF CALL (14 BEST FILM Awards), is the true Emmett Till story crafted from public record that became a lightning rod for moral outrage pivotal in inspiring a whole generation to commit to social change in the 1950s. 'His death was a spark that ignit ...

By Rob Underhill

Married for a Cause

Married for a Cause

Documentary about an interfaith couple who got married and took an oath not to have their own children to educate slum kids in India.

By Harish V Devnani

Kalil

In the remote mountains of Afghanistan; Gulmir, a poor goat shepherd, constantly approached by members of Al Qaeda who want to recruit his fourteen years old son, receives an unexpected visit from Zahir, an alien who brings with him the promise to he ...

By Paulo A. Zumach

Florence and the Fish

Florence and the Fish

Florence and the Fish is a coming-of-age story about a young girl who has found a unique way of coping with the drowning of her friend.

By Kristina Mileska

Game Companion

Thirty-something Bob lives downstairs in his mom's house, works in fast food and has one friend. His greatest accomplishment is making it to master in a fighter-style video game, permitting him a game companion, Kimiko, which turns out to be real. Ki ...

By Brian Morelan

Journeyman

" Miles, a boxer who has adequate skill but is not of the caliber of a contender, finds him self at a crossroads after suffering an injury in the ring. Filled with a new found purpose in his life he must assume ultimate responsibility for acts of fr ...

By Matthew weaver

The Visit

The film is about Sarika, a young independent woman in her early thirties working as an architect in the city of Ahmedabad. Her mother-whom she has a distant and troubled relationship with- comes visiting for a couple of days. The mother also happens ...

By Aditya Gowtham

Few Questions 2 Men

Few Questions 2 Men

Love, happiness and death � words we use daily and assume we all know what we mean. But do we really express our inner beliefs, do people we exchange those words with get the same feeling when we say them? Can you tell who is right or wrong? Can we t ...

By Yasser Abo El Ella

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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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