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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

The Diviners

Reality is a kaleidoscope that features all of us: the righteous, the merciless, the funny, the na�ve. The honest. Behold the inhabitants of two contemporary Ukrainian cities immersed in their unvarnished, deprived of unambiguous interpretations of goo ...

By Roman Bordun

A Foot of Turf

A remote island's culture is fading away due to an economic downturn, but islanders both near and far return every week to watch their beloved soccer team.

The Secret of Carlos Castaneda

The Secret of Carlos Castaneda

Often called the godfather of the human potential movement, Carlos Castaneda's life is surrounded by contradictions, fiction and legends. His apprentices and major experts in modern spiritually oriented psychology lift the veil on the greatest myster ...

By Vladimir Maykov

Madrigal para um Poeta Vivo

Madrigal para um Poeta Vivo

"Madrigal for a Living Poet" is a feature documentary about the marginal writer-gravedigger Tico. Is a song to life and a filmic reverie about the work and life of the character, is also a film about memory, which brings to the fore not only the agon ...

By Bruno Castanho

Motherland

A rapper tries everything to make contact with his dead mother meeting with characters, who are fictional and all the same immortal.

By Giorgos Efthimiou

Mausoleum

A married woman at her wit's end realizes that time is running out to resolve her mistakes and regain control of her life.

By Jamie Luke Milligan

Starvation

Fake News has reached the world of a hungry wolf who's life is in danger after being accused of what big bad wolves are stereotypically accused of.

By Zahra Rostampour

Cain

A young man has committed a depraved crime and his family will face the consequences with him.

By Santiago Samaniego

6,743 Count My Voice!

6,743 Count My Voice!

This is the story of Mrs. Jasodhiya Paswan, who wants her voice to be counted, not just on paper but in reality and there are thousands like her. In the year 2015, the promulgation of the Constitution of Nepal 2015 initiated the country�s transiti ...

By Shristi Joshi

Florian's Last Climb

Florian's Last Climb

In 1909 the Austrian mountaineer Florian Frederick Graf von Liechtenstein left his estate near Innsbruck and travelled to Corsica for a climbing expedition. He was never seen again. Ninety years later his grandson Otto employs two film makers to help ...

By Harold Chapman

No Exit Order

Hundreds of thousands of parents and children are stopped from exiting Israel. In the case of fathers, it is often used as a method of fear � a man cannot have the right to travel, �just in case� he might not pay child support in the future. Combin ...

C.I.T.A.

A group of Argentinian textile workers relates their resistance and fighting spirit needed to continue operating their factory despite the neoliberal policies that have destroyed Argentina's industry.

By Marianela Diaz Roman

Uncle Ted

A young girl travels to London from her small town in East Africa with the man she loves, only to find life in the big city is not as rosy as she'd imagine and is forced to make a difficult decision

By Bruno Catarino

The Unsung

During the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 the guerrilla movement comprised of military and civilian freedom fighters. The Pakistani Army surrendered.

By Ashraf Shishir

A Prayer for the Childless

A Prayer for the Childless

A childless woman is struggling in a conservative Indian society where the status of women is defined by the idea of motherhood.

By Sandeep Ravindranath

CHIDRA

Between mediums & priests, peasants & gods this documentary explores the social & psychological constructs surrounding the removal of #sin along the mountainous frontier of Hinduism in the Indian Himalaya.

Lesbian desire becomes a form of resistance to the penitentiary institution when gender inequality affects the lives of drug mule women behind bars.

By Cecilia Montagut

The Other Lisbon Story

The Other Lisbon Story

Many residents in picture perfect postcard Lisbon neighborhoods are no longer able to cope with rent increases, mass tourism and frightening gentrification. This film was directed by Ines von Bonhorst & Yuri Pirondi, as a juxtaposition to �Lisbon ...

By Ines von Bonhorst

"If some want to perpetuate colonization, Malagasy people must oppose it with a strong no, whoever the colonists are !" Thus spoke Felix Robson, our grandfather to all. Like so many others, Felix fought during the March 29, 1947 uprising to reclaim f ...

By Nantenaina Lova

Matilda

After a quarrel, a man buys a crystal ball for his wife in order to patch things up. But this creates more problems than it solves.

By Hamid Taheri

The Weekend Sailor

The Weekend Sailor

In 1973, with next to no experience, Mexican captain Ramon Carlin raced against the superstars of sailing in a 9 month deadly round the world regatta winning the most unexpected victory.

By Bernardo Arsuaga

Sophie macht Theater

Sophie macht Theater

20-something Sophie lives in the doldrums until she surreptitiously enters the apartment of a famous film director and begins to transform herself and explore the many possibilities life has to offer including meaningfulness.

Mavi Yar?n

As the ocean's level keeps rising, a solitary man makes a radical decision.

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A passionate second generation forest keeper struggling with illegal logging falls into depression.

By Nver Hovhannisyan

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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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