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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

American Mongrel

American Mongrel

Three strangers take a road trip into the northwest and redefine their American Dream.

By Deniz Demirer

HOME

Bea and Alan live in a bunker. She wants to have a child. He does not. They manage to live as comfortable as they can, trying to understand each other, sheltered from an apocalyptic world. Their food resources are not going to last much longer. Soon ...

By CARLOS ALONSO

Manneken

As the city celebrates its big party, Manneken get off the train ready to get lost into the crowd and enjoy the Mediterranean warmth. Closely watching the thousands of visitors and tourists, this immutable character begins to discover and accept his ...

By Samuel Domingo

Habitus

When you are born in a sealed context, where there is no fresh air nor direct sunlight, where external stimulation doesn�t enter nor your screams leave, where you only know what they let you see and you must your eyes to imagine what things might be ...

By Samuel Domingo

In Spain, many families suffer the scourge of the �crisis� that began in 2008. They�re people who hide their sorrows at home, far away from the gaze of the others. So, a slight subterranean malaise roams all under the country triggering a soft defeat ...

By Samuel Domingo

LOTTO

A car washer who has big dreams of being successful person but require an inspiration ... will his case inspire others?

By Firas Sameer

Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra INSO (?????? ????????? ??????? ????????)

Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra INSO (?????? ????????? ??????? ?????

For many years, Iraq was never been stable, as every couple of years there were political issues, wars, military coups etc. The film shows how those obstacles reflected against the INSO from a perspective of the classical music genre.

By Firas Sameer

A lyric documentary of a distant journey from Atacama Desert to Patagonia, carrying a camera and a tripod over the shoulders, from a fog oasis to a bygone estancia in a pursuit journey to find life.

By Nicolas Sanchez

SEPARATION

To have loved and lost might be preferred by some, but Sam isn't so sure when his wife, Alex leaves him once and for all.

FOUR LEAF CLOVER (DORT YAPRAKLI YONCA)

FOUR LEAF CLOVER (DORT YAPRAKLI YONCA)

Four Leaf Clover; is the fantastic and poetical story of a little girl , who questions her life after she is forced to marry with her rapist.

By HAKAN BERBER

Seductive Unemployment

Seductive Unemployment

"Seductive Berozgaari" is based on a guy who lives in a dream world, his dreams, his visions are everything in his world. He comes from a mediocre family, where he stays away from them for his job, but unfortunately his nature does not allow him to ...

By Vivek Sharma

I'll Be Home Soon

I'll Be Home Soon

A young man is suddenly held captive by his own family but it is unclear from whom he is trying to escape.

By James Everett

Diminished (????????)

Diminished (????????)

"Diminished" is a young woman who lived a normal life so far. She had a job, a place to live and a lot of interests. But through the crisis, she lost everything. She has no job, no house and no future. And she's totally alone in a big, unfriendly wo ...

By Konstantina Palli

Naleena

Naleena is an Indian transgender and according the culture of his country she belongs to the so-called "third sex," neither man nor woman. As an offering to the Goddess Kali, the Indian transgenders, called Hijras, undergo the ritual emasculation, c ...

By Luigi Storto

Tears

TEARS"about small girl is her birthday .. A Gift (doll) and her parents .... But the war is in their dwelling place and city

By yahya ghobadi

Entropya

A man gets back home at sunset. The dinner table is set. It's a special occasion, his 20th wedding anniversary. His wife is quietly trimming her roses, while they look back at the last 20 years of their life; a dramatic fall is shortcoming. The movi ...

By yassine marco marroccu

Inferno

Guilt is a bitch.

By �ngel L�pez

A Risky Undertaking

A Risky Undertaking

Stuck within a monotonous bubble our sheltered heroine, ten-year-old Ariadne, seizes the opportunity to go on an adventure away from her highly dysfunctional parents. (Sea featured @5:24)

Saol

SAOL film is a perspective on a young girl trapped in her own house and in her own life after losing her dad a year before. Another Christmas arrives, but everything has changed. She has got a tremendous Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) with a f ...

LUNA

Jimmy goes back in time to see if he can change the outcome of his best friend killing himself and their mutual love interest Luna.

By joe gonzalez

Hallelujah salvation and glory!

Hallelujah salvation and glory!

In the small town of Nova Tessal�nica, a miracle happens! But the saint who rises from the ground brings more than joy. She is God's messenger for humanity's ultimate test.

By Fl�vio Carnielli

A new bible will be written - by the man to the man! the true human rebirth means reinventing our conceptions of life and death!

By Fl�vio Carnielli

One love, two lives (Um amor duas vidas)

One love, two lives (Um amor duas vidas)

The year is 1914. In a distant village, Henry and Lana were happy, and they cultivate love and art. But what they could not imagine is that World War I would change their lives completely.

By Fl�vio Carnielli

Going The Distance: A Honeymoon Adventure

Going The Distance: A Honeymoon Adventure

This is the story of a couple who put their relationship to the ultimate test in order to find the secret of everlasting love. Part travelogue, part cross-cultural story-finding, and part scientific experiment, this film tells the story of the coupl ...

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Building bridges based on the
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Cine Pobre is the 100%
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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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