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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

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By yulia koritni

Paper Boats

Paper Boats is a poetic and surreal drama about Jayden, a 12 years old boy. that can't enjoy the present moment because he is too afraid of death and time passing by. Eventually, his encounter and friendship with Amaziah, an older man from his neighb ...

By David Borens

In 2029 the Spaniards don�t know what to do with their death relatives. Burying them is very expensive. Incineration has been forbidden due to environmental reasons. A new law forbids transporting them from cities to rural cemeteries. Nati and Tom�s� ...

All You Do Is Shag

All You Do Is Shag

A romantic dinner on an ordinary day. She is sitting at the table waiting. Finally he appears. He arrives on time. He is perfectly punctual in fact he arrives 10 minutes early: this is the straw that breaks the camel�s back. Sometimes you simply cann ...

Mirage

Mirage (2014) is a short hybrid 2D / 3D animation, which explores the essence of memory and its significance in our lives. Through beautiful illustrations, Mirage shows the serendipitous convergence of our memories in the formation of a man's body. E ...

Live Life Dearest

Live Life Dearest

A movie which deeply questions what its like to be a human. A journey through pain, loss, love and shattered dreams. A film which main concern is to explore the inner self.

By juan Escobar

Agony From a Drunk Fly

Agony From a Drunk Fly

Sometimes irracional things can be more realists than reality. Sometimes the dreams can tell more about us than ourselves.

By Francisco Guerrero

Ladies Men

Sa'eed the cleaning man in a public restroom becomes interested in a female's phone number he finds everyday written behind toilet doors.

By Fahimeh Sharafi

Motherly (Ser Madre)

Motherly (Ser Madre)

A blind mother is searching for his disabled son in a park to find out the girl he is dating is beautiful or not.

By Navid Nikkhah Azad

Michel (Michel)

Michel (Michel)

In order to financially subsist, Michel, a cranky old man, is forced to share his home with Pierre, a young student who finds it difficult living with an intrusive elderly person. In the hopes of securing an intimate dinner at home with his girlfrien ...

By Romain Richard

Afairesis (Removal)

Afairesis (Removal)

Panic and terror embrace twelve college students as they get murdered one after another in an isolated house in the woods; until an unpredictable twist of events gets the hopeless victims by surprise.

By Savvas Christou

The secret of the sauce

The secret of the sauce

Brazil... the land of Samba, the country where the economy is growing up very fast, the land of soccer... Really? Do you know what is happening in Brazil? What is hidden? The real social problems? Researches shows that more than 60% of public money ...

By Leonardo Liberti

Panglassian

Elisabeth who rigorously plans her life events suddenly threatens by newly moved beautiful neighbor Julia. Elisabeth�s servant boy Pico who has a soft for Julia tries to save her from Elisabeth�s intrusion. Meanwhile Elisabeth�s boyfriend James, obli ...

By rasika ruwanpathirana

House of Magic

House of magic During cold war a KGB agent Victor Pastrovich and his wife infiltrate US and hides in the deserts of California. Now the cold war was long over Victor has no propose to go on, he become depressed and lost interest in life. Meanwhile h ...

By rasika ruwanpathirana

Return

A modern gothic tale of terror. Cathy Reed has been institutionalized most of her life because of Schizophrenia, as a child her parents thought she was possessed by demons and had her exercised by priests. Medical science saw different. Now decades l ...

Softwaring Hard

Softwaring Hard

O Semeador de Planetas

O Semeador de Planetas

In the center of the universe is the answer to the most important question raised by humans: Where did we come from? Some people say that the universe was created by God. Others say it came from a big explosion. The truth is more simple: It was a ...

By Marcelo Tannure

I am Siegfried (Ich, Siegfried)

I am Siegfried (Ich, Siegfried)

Milan Gr�newald's graduation film "I am Siegfried" at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne is a new saga, which is based on a multitude of stories about the Nibelungs.The setting is a modern city, the court of the Burgundians a penthouse of wealthy Gunt ...

By Milan Gr�newald

Katchamata

The underwater world of Irphan. A ten years old boy from Indonesia, shows the struggle of his tribe, the Bajaos, to keep fishing with the traditional gear instead of replacing them with the massive destructive fishing techniques.

By Pedram Yazdani

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

Children of Salt

Children of Salt

Told in a nonlinear format, a couple's failing relationship battles against how hard it can be to make a lasting relationship work and the consequences that can occur. Originally shot as a triptych film, the story develops as three perspectives: bot ...

By Caleb Andrew Ward

Roya

Roya; is story of a group of refugee whom have a rocky trip. Aref and Roya's, love story has diverted in an unexpected way..

By Alper Akdeniz

Sophie's Fortune

Sophie's Fortune

Brendan gets involved in a 'Fathers only' treasure hunt for the sake of his 7 year old niece Sophie. But what Brendan begins to realise is that the parents imagination may have gotten the better of them and it might not be so easy bringing home Sophi ...

By Phil Meachem

Too many nights @ Nuyorican

Too many nights @ Nuyorican

Music video to the song from the Soundtrack to the novel "A Crash Course on the Anatomy of Robots" by Kent Evans. A spoken-word self reflective critique of the slam poetry scene, with surreal imagery. Shot by Ashley Fell and Michael James Wright in ...

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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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