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The Joy of a Home (Alegria do Lar)

The Joy of a Home (Alegria do Lar)

My grandparents are an elderly couple who have lived together for 50 years. Their home is the place where they spend more time together, where they share frustrations and their memories.

Capturing a moment, a gesture that inevitably the time will erase. I live my days in longing grabbed the camera to capture certain moments of my children who are not to be repeated. My daughter continues to grow and transform, unless I can capture a ...

Onde o meu amigo pintou um quadro

Onde o meu amigo pintou um quadro

Short and simple story: My friend made a painting from a photograph about a manifestation against the economic crisis and I made a film from that painting. Between these two objects lies a path, which began in a casual photograph and ended in a poorl ...

The outcasts of the Calatrava bridge

The outcasts of the Calatrava bridge

A man and a woman, outcasts of a harsh reality, walk along the Calatrava Bridge in Athens (Greece). The man tells the woman that the bridge is made by the famous architect Calatrava and that it resembles a boat. He imagines them going for a trip by t ...

By Dimitris Panakis

MEMENTO MORI

In a mourning ceremony the photographer takes a picture of a little girl. With a sorrowful face,the mourners leave the room, leaving it surrounded by flowers. Little by little, we get closer to the girl, we enter into her mind and into the univer ...

By Daniela Wayllace

We Never Break Up

We Never Break Up

A couple had arguments, glitches, took a break from each other. Girl�s mother consoled her. Boy�s friends helped him. Girl returned back the belongings of boy after calling him home. Both got separated. Both remembered each other badly after the figh ...

By Rahul Sharma

FEARACE

~~~~ FEARACE -a short movie ~~~~ (sequel of ANGELOUSY �a short movie) Story, Written, Cinematography and Dialogues by: Rahul RaSha Sharma Duration: 14mins Quality: Full HD, 1080p Genre: Thriller / Suspense [Fiction] Casting: Rahul R ...

By Rahul Sharma

ANGELOUSY - a short movie

ANGELOUSY - a short movie

~~~~ ANGELOUSY -a short movie ~~~~ Story by: Rahul Sharma Duration: 10mins 16secs Quality: Full HD, 1080p Genre: Fiction/ Action/ Suspense Casting: Rahul RaSha Sharma, Sudheer Reddy, Pearlin Director of Photography, Camera, Recording: Akhiles ...

By Rahul Sharma

The Circle

In a sacred village of southern India, among the temples and pilgrims, one charismatic old Brahman has worked for 80 years to collect literary books from all over the world. Only understanding and knowledge account for him. By dint of dedication a ...

By R�mi Briand

LO

The Cambodia counts 15 million inhabitants, among whom more than 10 millions live in rural areas. No more than 7 millions of these villagers have any access to the drinking water, and have other choice than to consume the water of rivers or puddles. ...

By R�mi Briand

From grey matter to stardust

From grey matter to stardust

The �Gemini Observatory� is an astronomic observatory consisting 2 telescopes of 8m, for each hemisphere, Gemini North in Hawai and Gemini South in Chili regarding Cerro Pach�n. These both telescopes allow astronomers to cover the entire sky and are a ...

By R�mi Briand

Between the waves

Between the waves

In DRC Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), the war rages to Goma, between the rebels of the M23 and the FARDC. Hundreds of thousand refugees are moved on the border of Rwanda. Kabila reigns with an iron hand over a country in the immense min ...

By R�mi Briand

The Voice of the Voiceless

The Voice of the Voiceless

Inside the mind and heartbreak of Olga, a deaf teenager brought from Latin America to New York City, under the false promise of attending a �Christian Sign Language School�. Upon arrival we enter a world of immigrant trafficking, and life is turned u ...

By Maxim�n Monihan

NO (NO)

`NO� is a Kafkaesque short film in which the obsession, as a disorder, drives the main character into an ironic descent into hell.

By Guillermo P. Bosch

Self Offense

Self Offense is an award winning and seat gripping suspense film about the journey of four women victimized by abuse and violence. Their individual stories are woven together through the self defense course where they meet and gain tools necessary to ...

By Wendy Keeling

Hole in the stomach

Hole in the stomach

Natalie is fighting a war against her destiny, and the feeling that her body betrays her. Together with her husband, they are struggling the long journey on the way to become Parents

By avivit myasnikov

Jezebeth 2 Hour of the Gun

Jezebeth 2 Hour of the Gun

�It�s the year 1881 and the outlaw vampires Jezebeth and Billie Gunn, now bitter enemies have parted ways after a human child is gunned down in cold blood. Now after 130 years that same child who became a vampire is used by the outlaw Billie Gunn as ...

By Jeffrey Swanson

Labyrinth Rocks

Labyrinth Rocks

A young girl must enter her fantasy world in order to save her older brother from a shadowy nemesis.

Call It Blue

Before Benito departs on his tedious journey of selling crop insurance to farmers, he happens upon an attractive young lady named Ana. Obliging to her simple request of hitching a ride, Benito quickly discovers that she lacks a destination. In betwee ...

By Alessia Lamonaca

Timologio

A graphic designer is heading to poverty when a strange businessman comes and offers him a proposition that can change his life. Every choice has it's price

By Charalampos Kontopanagos

Man vs. Man (Om versus om)

Man vs. Man (Om versus om)

�During a war, people die regardless of the side they fight. Today, the heroes are built by PR agencies, pilots once conquered the skies with courage and dignity. An inspirational short documentary about death, humans and wings, with an aviator, Gene ...

By Octavian Repede

The Chicken (A Galinha)

The Chicken (A Galinha)

"The Chicken " is a film with surrealist inspirations , where the chicken begins to dream until the dream comes true, waking up the chicken and taking her back to reality , entering into despair .

By Wlisses freitas alves

OCULE

OCULE is a cutout animated film exploring the relationship between observer and observed and the power imbalances inherent therein. In quantum physics it's suggested that matter exists in multiple positions simultaneously until observed by a consciou ...

By Kristin Ruff-Frederickson

Breathe (Respira)

Breathe (Respira)

Facing her inability to break her own record, a swimmer decides to take a breath and enjoy for a moment with her surroundings

By Amanda P�rez

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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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