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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

Spiritual Contact the Movie

Spiritual Contact the Movie

A film by Emerson Pinheiro that portrays a real story that happened in 1995 in the life of a boy of 11 years old who had paranormal experiences and looking for help to understand what was happening to him. SYNOPSIS: Since the age of 11, Jeremia ...

By Emerson Pinheiro

Let Me Help You

Let Me Help You

Aya is having a wonderful day, when all of a sudden she finds herself chasing a couple of bicycle thieves. She manages to reach and with a hard blow knock them to the ground. The sight of blood and the severe injuries flood Aya with feelings of guil ...

By Leon Livshitz

AWARENESS

Awareness is a short film based on fake notes.This film is based on a true life incident.now"a"days we people have no time for anything and that is the main reason for the fake notes coming to this world.We must really consider this issue about the f ...

Masheenee Alcketiara

Masheenee Alcketiara

A traditional Kuwaiti girl seeking life beyond her society, to achieve her ambitions and dreams in the modern era, to sing, to dance, and to flourish. We don't know for sure if it's a dream or reality. Entertainment and Humor.

Aleqini |Live|

2013 Ema Shah singing in her concert a Poem for the Kuwaiti stateless Mohammad Al-Nabhan. A poem about a man looking for a homeland, from a home that didn't give a life And he keep looking forever. The language of Arabic literature. Humanist, philo ...

Talking to the Air: The Horses of the Last Forbidden Kingdom

Talking to the Air: The Horses of the Last Forbidden Kingdom

In a harsh and remote region in the heart of the Himalaya, the Lo people of Mustang have depended on the horse for their very survival. Tibetan Buddhism is central and the Lo people tie their own karmic being to the lives of their horses. Pivotal to ...

By Sophie Pegrum

Life is full of memories, but what if these were slowly fading away? What would we become? Jacinto's life has turned around 360 degrees, but will do everything in his hands to make every a beautiful day for Maria. A story about love beyond oblivion. ...

By Mariadel Villaespesa

hooded

Fairy tales are not always beautiful tales. Can sometimes come from a dangerous mind. Very dangerous. But, sometimes, yoru fairy tale can become a nightmare

You are not American

You are not American

In Kunar province of Afghanistan, an American military vehicle has attacked and exploded by Taliban terrorists, just one soldier is alive, soldier skips from war area and reaches to a big stone, An 11 years old Afghan boy appears and gives his contai ...

By Sadam Wahidi

While There is Still Time

While There is Still Time

Lucas and Caio are two studying in the last year of high school and they are two inseparable friends. But the situation changes when Caio discovers that his family is moving to another country. He feels numb by the news, while Lucas can not deal well ...

By Leandro Wenceslau

Back to nowhere

Back to nowhere

4-piece London rockers Mercutio borrow their name from one of the most controversial characters in Shakespeare�s Romeo and Juliet. Their music is as passionate and personal as the vicissitudes of the famous character; anger, instinct love, fear and m ...

By riccardo sai

Agonia

When every fight turns into a reason for a relationship to end, that�s when problems arise. When those problems arise, that�s when the fate starts shaking. And when fate shakes, come with a price. This movie is about a young couple who are about to e ...

CARROLL PARK

�Four Med�i�ta�tions on Love, Betrayal & Sec�ond Chances�� CARROLL PARK fol�lows Four Sto�ries connected through a Brook�lyn neigh�bor�hood park. Life-changing Deci�sions and For�bid�den Romance all inter�sect one sum�mer in Car�roll Park. Writ ...

By Benjamin Orifici

GONZALES

Man meat his innermost fear and decide to fight with it till the end.

By Vents Grinbaums

Just an Ordinary Household (Eine ganz normale WG)

Just an Ordinary Household (Eine ganz normale WG)

Just an Ordinary Household Anne-Marie, Bernadette, Delia, Doris, Sarah and Gabi live together in shared accommodation in the centre of Berlin. The women are between 26 and 60 years old. A perfectly normal household in Berlin. Anne-Marie is ...

By georg sch�nharting

aspirations

a drawer tree used to stare at the stars, till one night he heared noises from his drawes in which he couldnt ignore

Barolo Boys. The Story of a Revolution

Barolo Boys. The Story of a Revolution

The story of a group of friends, the "rebel boys" who made italian wine become so great, between generational conflicts, brilliant insights and never silenced controversies. For the first time on the big screen, Barolo Boys. The Story of a Revolut ...

By paolo casalis

Summer of Ava

Two best friends spend their fleeting summer together.

A ballet dancer falls during a rehearsal but uses this mistake to pursue perfection.

By Esteban Corzo

Hide Your Eyes

Anabel invites her ex girlfriend Hanna over to see her new apartment in hopes of getting her back. The day finally arrives and Hanna rings the doorbell. It takes the unorganized Anabel by surprise, and she runs around trying to organize her stuff. Sh ...

By Gabriela Uweis

A story about love between people that doesn't know how to love. Its a movie about people and how people treat each other. What we do to show what we think and how relations between people makes us think. And there is also hens in it. The story conce ...

By Gabriela Uweis

Joy of the Holy

Joy of the Holy

A young man frequently comes to Catholic church when he actually is a christian Protestant. He comes there a lot to tell his stories and goes confessing.

By Edelin Wangsa

Perseo

Malena lives with her cat Perseo in an old apartment building in Bs As. She has a quiet life however, there�s an old lady living next door whose presence unsettles Malena. One day, Perseo is nowhere to be found. When calling him, Malena hears meows ...

By Maria Florencia Sosa

100 Apples (????)

100 Apples (????)

Jen wants to give a special gift to her girlfriend to commemorate their relationship. Jen's fine art teacher, Chi, eagerly helps him find inspiration. One day, Chi announces he is going abroad to study, and challenges Jen to draw one hundred apples b ...

By Jia Yao Wang

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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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