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Dani Feixas
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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

The Confluence (Sangam)

The Confluence (Sangam)

A learned historian walks us through the enchanting story behind the world's biggest congregation, the 'Maha Kumbha Mela', last held in northern India in early 2013. Exploring demi-gods and incarnations and river-goddesses, we get a closer look at th ...

By Shantanu Kakde

Rouge

Two L.A. party girls, Sarah and Kelly, go out clubbing to reminisce. After drinking and dancing, the girls have a conversation in the restroom of the nightclub that tests their friendship. When Sarah starts talking about her boyfriend David, the conv ...

By Aditya Vishwanath

A dream you dream together is reality

A dream you dream together is reality

"Now what do I do with my atheism? It was killed in action at the Horto. Against my will, I surrender: There is a God and He is Brazilian. From now on, when someone tells me we are stardust, that the Big Bang is the origin of the universe, I�ll ask: ...

By Mauro Reis Corr�a

Open the box (Abre la caja)

Open the box (Abre la caja)

Open the box, take the knife and kill yourself. Child's play.

By Sergio Manuel S�nchez Cano

Bladderwort Common

Bladderwort Common

"The Common Bladderwort is a carnivorous plant that captures small organisms. The unsuspecting victim meets a dismal end: unable to escape.".

By Laura Douglas

Repercussions

In the aftermath of 2011's London riots the story focuses on Jade a single mum, whose life unravels due to poor judgement and untimely events. She seeks redemption; but at what cost?

Gage

In 1848, Phineas Gage suffers an unspeakable brain injury when a tamping rod plunges through his skull, causing dramatic shifts in his personality.

By Keith Wilhelm Kopp

BHRAANTII

A night in the life of Avi and Soniya, when some one is in there house, but who is he? Or............. WHAT is it?

By Yogesh Sharma

Capsized

Using only a cell phone, a young bride-to-be must find a way to save her fianc� from drowning in a cargo hold of a capsized cruise ship.

By Brandon Freer

Broken Side of Time

Broken Side of Time

A 30-year-old model is not only tired of competing with 18-year-olds but also realizes that the side effects of what makes her feel most alive are destroying her.

By Gorman Bechard

Bradley

A story of Memory and passion. Amanda, a middle aged dance teacher, lives emotionally distant from the world around her. But a chance encounter with her neighbor's dog stir up memories of a passionate affair from her youth. Will the past threaten the ...

Princess

Princess is a Dramatic comedy centred on a Mother and Daughter day on the town. Princess, a nine year old, mesmerized by a candy display in a store window. Her Mother angrily barks orders into a cell-phone. Princess wants a cake, but Mother whisks he ...

The Memorable Story of Eraserboy

The Memorable Story of Eraserboy

The Memorable Story of Eraserboy is a fictional tale about a cursed boy and his struggle for going through life without beeing able to let a meaningful mark of his existence on the on the surface of the planet.

By Lou Gastardi

Corra at Home

Corra at Home is a poignant short film about Corra, a young girl in her twenties stuck jobless in her home town after college, with little motivation to move forward. She has developed an unhealthy attachment to her best friend Ethan, with whose fami ...

By Bryan Cooper

Pietas of the Wind

Pietas of the Wind

A film based on a dialogue that never took place between the Japanese poet Matsuo Bash? and the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa. Bash?�s voice takes us back to life in Scarpa's architecture, leaving us suspended in mystery between the journey of life ...

Calling Bell

The protagonist, Ritomoy Roy is a real estate broker, who in spite of doing hard work day and night could not create a fortune for himself and is a failed businessman. He keeps struggling to get through but his luck does not favor him at all. His onl ...

By Indradeepta Roy

Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep

Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep

Some Must Watch While Some Must Sleep (61mins) is a hypnotic and oneiric cinematic poem composed from footage shot on the road in Canada. Using hand-processed film techniques to create an unworldly zone between sleep and wakefulness, it looks at thre ...

By Michael Higgins

Baja's Secret Miracle

Baja's Secret Miracle

Mario Castro, a fisherman that decided to change the destiny of his community, narrates this wonderful story that takes us in a journey of decades, to understand how the town of Cabo Pulmo created the world's most robust marine reserve.

By Eliana Alvarez Martinez

PEDRO (9) discovers DON RAMON dumping acid to the drain that leads to the river while courting LETI (26) through the mud. So he alerts the neighbors.

By Agustin de Torres

Waves and Freedom

Waves and Freedom

- Exhilarating ambiance of spaciousness and tranquility of sea . . - away from the hustle and bustle of the city . . - Dancing with free waves, friendship with seagulls . . - Irresistible attraction to sail away since the beginning of the time . ...

By ilker saglamer

Refusing To Choose

Refusing To Choose

Based on a True Story -Home-trapped-beautiful-daughter, -Scientist-of-the-year-son, -and a loving-caring-mum who has to make a choice between her 2 kids . .' Who would you choose?

By ilker saglamer

The Crawler

Enid comes from a bad family. She hates her job, her boss, her life. Everything changes after a visit to the restroom. Enid will never be the same again. The world will never be the same again. YOU will never be the same again. YOU never know what yo ...

By Amanda Payton

The Argonaut

Allie wakes up, after taking her own life, in a room filled with memories in the form of photographs, negatives and slides that cover the floors and walls. Unable to move onto the other world, she slowly realizes that she can relive each memory. Alli ...

By Scotty Smith

Unspoken

Some relationships are beyond words... Follow this moving visual and aural journey, recounting memories and emotions as the audience is given a painfully intimate view of love in the modern era.

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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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