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Salih Cihan Özalp
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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

Adana Kebap

This is the first movie about kebap. We invastigate to kebap culture from past to present. We found 3rd generation chef of kebaps invertor (Sedat Usta). it is a short story about kebaps history and culture.

By �zg�r Barut

That Bitch Becky

That Bitch Becky

In a transparent attempt to heighten her social status, Becky, a socially desperate wasp, hosts a party that, unfortunately, spirals out of control.

By Rebecca Rochon

Orange Dog (El Perro Naranja)

Orange Dog (El Perro Naranja)

The orange dog is a film about friendship, about love; on conversations, drunkenness; on the moments with your partner, lack of understanding; about being in love; about being alone.

By Angel Puado Veloso

The Last Knife Sharpener

The Last Knife Sharpener

Knife sharpeners existed in great numbers, in a time when the hope for the return of a lost king wasn't needed. Today only one exists, so I've made it my goal to find him.

By Ricardo Guerreiro

TITANS

TITANS tells the story of two boys, Antoine, a condescending show-off, and Alexis, an introverted kid. They will share a few days experience of growing up together, biking in desolated rural scenery. Antoine, impulsive and ambivalent, slowly transfor ...

By Damien Gurzynski

fourever

Johnny is stuck in the past. Desperate for understanding or revenge, he organises a reunion party as a guise to lure his old friends into a trap. The music is pumping, the drugs are up for grabs, and he's ready to welcome a houseful of guests. As ti ...

By anton saunders

Omadox

The Omadox Corporation is facing a schism. Filmmaker Thomas Spoon, documenting the looming dissolution of the hallowed company, uncovers ever more baffling secrets and lies. Also, fish.

By Edward Bolman

Deposit For The courier

Deposit For The courier

By Edward Mavskegg

SUMMERTIME IN NEW YORK

SUMMERTIME IN NEW YORK

Six people unknowingly form a circle either through a friendship, attempted love, or a brief sexual encounter.

By Max Weissberg

Ocean Connectors

Ocean Connectors

Ocean Connectors Mini Documentary (USA, 2014, 7:40 min.) This is a mini documentary about a non-profit environmental education program (OCEAN CONNECTORS), that links youth in underserved communities along the Pacific Coast. Ocean Connectors work ...

By Roosevelt Palafox

KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD

KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD

Lando, a lower middle-class college boy who works part-time in a BPO company, is getting geared up together with his crew for the open auditions of the most prestigious crew in the country, the 3S&S dance crew.Lando�s father committed suicide when he ...

By eLiza Cornejo

Uninhabitable (Ya?anmaz)

Uninhabitable (Ya?anmaz)

Samet, who endeavors to survive by working as a news editor in a TV channel in the city at which he has arrived dreaming to be a director, wants to end his life but he doesn�t have enough courage to do it. Just like any other day, he receives a news ...

By Osman Oguz Ogun

In the hills of Valpariso, a young kid called, Ale, falls in love with a brazilian prostitute. he will do everything he can to find the money so they can spend a moment together, as KIki, will return to her country in just 24 hours.

By James Andrew

Dendrologium

The Seeker follows the voice of destiny and leaves behind his old life in order to solve the riddle of the myth of the Sweet Fruit. After meeting a strange Forester who hands him a rare Sweet Fruit, The Seeker decides to scrutinize it�s mystery. Thes ...

By Rafael Stemplewski

C 412

Lisa is 13. She likes riding her bike and listening to the whistling of the wind in the trees. One afternoon, while riding down a small road in the forest, her bike-chain comes off and she meets Paolo, an experimental artist.

By Philippe jasmin

Abruzzo, Italy. 1950. Nenn� is an eight year old child that lives with her mother in a small village surrounded by the mountains. Nenn� is fascinated by the story of Ba�ll, an ogre of Abruzzo's ancient fairy tales, that hides in the old abandoned houses ...

By Daniele Campea

The Riddle (?????)

The Riddle (?????)

A prison warden offers a chance to his prisonner, an enigma. If he solves it, he finds back his freedom.

VHS - Victor Home System

VHS - Victor Home System

Victor pirates movies on VHS for a criminal organization, but risks selling tapes out of the loop. The young man then meets her neighbor Laura, who questions his lifestyle.

Donor

A desperate New York couple would do ANYTHING to have a family - with no strings attached.

By Randy Spence

Boys sugary dream

Boys sugary dream

The film is about a little kid whom despite his hard living has a dream, and is trying to achieve even a little part of his simple small dream.

By Mohamed Saadoun

A Picture and a Frame

A Picture and a Frame

The film is about a simple photographer who works in Alexandria's public gardens, many years passed before he discovers that he didn't have his simplest rights, so he decided to go find it!

By Mohamed Saadoun

SOMETIMES I DREAM I'M FLYING (CZASEM SNIE, ZE LATAM)

SOMETIMES I DREAM I'M FLYING (CZASEM SNIE, ZE LATAM)

The moving story of crossing the borders of one�s aspirations in order to fulfill one�s dreams. The main character in the film, Weronika, is a young, outstanding and talented dancer. Since she was 10 years old ballet has been her entire life, day ...

By Aneta Popiel-Machnicka

The Crossing (El Cruce)

The Crossing (El Cruce)

"The Crossing" is a 20-minute documentary that follows activist, writer, and sponsored trail runner Nick Triolo as he organizes and attempts a 70-mile protest run in resistance to open-pit gold mining in Southern Baja, Mexico. The protest was a gr ...

DREADLOCKS STORY

DREADLOCKS STORY

Dreadlocks Story opens up the history of Rastas in a new light. It shows the spiritual history behind the criticized dreadlocks hairstyle and the roots of the Rastafari culture, which is entangled with the Hindu tradition in Jamaica. Also, Although s ...

By Linda ainouche

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Building bridges based on the
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Cine Pobre is the 100%
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culture and capabilities
[ Call for Entries 2026 ]

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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