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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

The Biggest Handicap

The Biggest Handicap

A blind guy and a deaf-mute girl meet on a ring in the Roman metropolis to play a boxing match. Viewers expect to see the two opponents anger and violence, and instead will be disappointed because something unexpected will happen.

Mr. Citizen lives an ordinary life in an ordinary home where he is ordinarily happy� Until one sunny day he wakes up and finds himself being fired from his job. That�s not an ordinary thing to happen, it�s a disaster. The poor Mr. Citizen is so asha ...

By Dominique Preusse

The Missing (Disp?ru?ii)

The Missing (Disp?ru?ii)

Ion likes to chill on the couch and smoke all his life. But when his friends start disappearing he starts questioning his sanity.

THE NEIGHBOUR (VECINA)

THE NEIGHBOUR (VECINA)

When the neighbour knocks on your door asking for weed is better not to be a good neighbour.

By ALEXANDRA BURCA

The Forbidden Education (Spanish: La Educaci�n Prohibida) is an independent documentary released in 2012. The film documents diverse alternative education practices and unconventional schools in Latin America and Spain and includes educational approache ...

The Lost Camera

The Lost Camera

The adventures of a camera forgotten by a passenger in a rickshaw in Kathmandu. DOWNLOAD for festivals in HD: https://vimeo.com/91908870 password= migrantfilm

Vulnerables

Two losers find themselves in the middle of the night. At this time nothing would be the same

By Iv�n L�pez Gonz�lez

Zugzwang

There are moments in life when you know you have to make a decision while the best thing to do would be to not make a move.

By Yolanda Centeno

The Inflicted

David O'Hara is a troubled medical student who kidnaps, rapes and murders women. He impregnates one of his victims, Melissa Daniels, in an attempt to replace the family that he lost as a young boy. However, the police rescue Melissa from David's ware ...

By Matthan Harris

As London prepares for the 2012 Olympics, Egyptian artist Nazir Tanbouli begins the biggest solo street art project in London on a condemned social housing estate.

By GILLIAN MCIVER

Spectral Transmission: Ep.1 It Waits in the Attic

Spectral Transmission: Ep.1 "It Waits in the Attic"

SPECTRAL TRANSMISSION is a Science Fiction/Fantasy Anthology TV series created by Cinema and Screen Studies Assistant Professor Jacob Dodd and 6 undergraduate students at SUNY Oswego. The series comprises of 22 minute episodes filmed locally in Centr ...

i hate being black

i hate being black

a conversation amongst buppies.

By Kevin Craig West

Ainu. Caminos a la memoria

Ainu. Caminos a la memoria

"Ainu. Pathways to Memory" is a discovery documentary of the Ainu people in Japan. On a trip through the recovery of their identity, which took us from Japan to Europe, we will find a people erased from history books and scarred by discrimination wh ...

By Almudena Garc�a

An inocent saleslady in a terrible trap after offer some clean products to a man

By Cristiano Sousa

And You Are?

And You Are is an artistically compassionate film of the effects and revelations of Alzheimers. JEANETTE ROURKE director/writer/performer) and MARGARET DANE (Producer). This abstract film explores what is undoubtedly a personal journey, with a unive ...

By Margaret Dane

Milkshake

After their parents died, an adopted teenage boy struggles to live with his adoptive little sister against harsh reality.

She is just a child who struggles to survive in the concrete jungle. She was born unwanted, survives the infamous way and will die rejected being the way she is. Poor, dirty and uneducated. This modern version of Andersen�s classic tale shows some p ...

By Kyoko Yamashita

Temet Nosce - Change can only begin with yourself

Temet Nosce - Change can only begin with yourself

24 filmmakers from 16 different countries, making one music video. They all got the same lyric, interpreted it, filmed their meaning behind the song, in their own country, and sent it to the editor, so it could end up as an different and unique musi ...

Raise My Hands

On Nelson Mandela's birthday, photographer Scott McDermott captured famous faces � e.g. Clint Eastwood, Robert DeNiro, Forest Whitaker and Morgan Freeman - raising hands to pledge to improve their planet. In Kelly's film, writer Elliot Kotek ponders ...

By Elliot Kotek

The Night of the Great Chinese Lottery

The Night of the Great Chinese Lottery

Three friends from university, who haven't seen each other in a few years, decide to spend New Year's eve in Hong Kong, where one of them has decided to move permanently. However at the meeting place, one friend fails to show up. Instead they meet a ...

By Marco Brunelli

The Silence of Our Friends

The Silence of Our Friends

Elise is on her way to a school parent-teacher night. Her daughter's been involved in a bullying incident. Elise arrives late to find that the others have already gotten started. To everyone's surprise, the teacher has found an unusual way to convey ...

By Iina Lempi�inen

Urge

The Burton's seems like the perfect family. So perfect in fact, that they catch the sinister gaze of a serial killer named Diana; A psychotic and even sometimes ruthless family slaughterer, who has a warped sense of reality and family love. The Burto ...

By Anthony Corso

Bragg N East

Bragg N East is an inspired by true events short film. A life shattering event brings together two former adversaries in search of answers: a police officer and a gang-member, both hardened by years of working the streets.

By Robert Wagner

No Love Lost

A Jewish boy nurturing a secret romance with a Muslim girl, despite the realities of their backgrounds, is unaware he is being stalked. While the young lovers struggle to be open about their relationship, the stalker's obsession reveals a thought pro ...

By Shekhar Bassi

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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
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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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