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Big Man

Ferico is known as the best Polish male stripper. He is ambitious, spending most of his life working in the night clubs and working out in the gym. Ferico�s next aim is to start a family. It is not easy, as his girlfriend finds it hard to accept his ...

By Jedrzej Michalak

My Life in Black Rock Buffalo New York

My Life in Black Rock Buffalo New York

Lucia De Suza lives in Black Rock, a neighborhood of the northwest section of the city of Buffalo New York, the home of immigrants from Latin America, Vietnam and recent refugees from Africa and Asia �Yemen, Cambodia, Thailand and Somalia. Lucia came ...

By Nefeli Soteriou

Another Day of Mankind

Another Day of Mankind

Charles is currently a graduate student in Romania, manages to find psychological balance needed to tell the story of his bloody childhood. The documentary presents a collection of memories from a former child soldier in the Liberian Civil War, who's ...

By Alexandru Vlad

A May 30 Here Below (Un 30 mai ici-bas)

A May 30 Here Below (Un 30 mai ici-bas)

On May 30 2014, Quebecers were invited to film a fragment of their everyday life, on that day. than a thousand people took part in this project, all around the province, and also from abroad. This participatory documentary reflects their reality this ...

By Fabien Deglise

Boo Demon vs La Cerveza de La Muerte

Boo Demon vs La Cerveza de La Muerte

Poisoned micro brew leads to the neighborhood's destruction by a handsome robot and so on.

Green Dream

Green Dream is a personal documentary that contemplates nature's place within the city. The author takes the viewer on a journey from the wild fields of Sofia, Bulgaria to the manicured parks of Vancouver, Canada and finally to a community managed ...

By maia iotzova

In a future decadent world a professional player of the Laserball league is disqualified during the game and forced to be disconnected for a few hours. Returning to the real world, he is reunited with his father. The clash between their realities reo ...

By Hern�ndez Torrado Daniel

Ocaso

In a once luxurious house two unhappy elders live sick and plagued by economic problems.

By Oscar Daniel Hern�ndez Moreno

CUCKOO (ASSAMESE)

CUCKOO (ASSAMESE)

A unique tribal youth festival celebrated in a separate natural location during the night hours with song of love & dance. It�s about a festival called �Raati Bihu� which is observed by an indigenous tribal group called Moran in India�s north-east ...

By JAICHENG JAI DOHUTIA

The buddha, the red shoes and the kite

The buddha, the red shoes and the kite

This film directed,scripted and performed by Li Bin who is 21 yeas old.This is his first film. This is his third grade university shooting works.To pay tribute to the director Wong Kar-Wai. He try his best to show a story about salvation and the ...

BEING (SER)

Living in isolation, a group of people search eternal peace through spiritualistic rites. Victoria struggle to adapt, but finds that her past will not give truce and will have to release from everything to find her inner peace.

By Jaime L�pez

Tarlaba?? and me

Tarlaba?? and me

After wandering through several areas of Istanbul and taking up all kinds of informal jobs since his release from prison, "Mustafa from Adana", in his fifties, decides to start over and settle in Tarlaba??; this is where he becomes a waste picker. It ...

By Marianna Francese

Mamulengo - At The Hand's Lines

Mamulengo - At The Hand's Lines

The aspects that build a relationship between the actor-puppeteer and the manipulated puppet, from the experiences of puppeteers from the group Giramundo, during rehearsals and shows in its tour Trilogy of the Modern World. Between the interviewees a ...

Predestination

Predestination takes us on a journey of self-awareness as a disillusioned philanderer deconstructs his life.

In the fifties, Elfred, doctor in a psychiatric hospital witnesses the arrival of Charles Serin, a doctor from another establishment, and with him the discovery of a terrible secret buried within the heart the estate

By Arnold de Parscau

ONE WEEKEND

My story as a girl 18 years old told thorough a boy : A reclusive teenage boy, suffering from identity crisis, discovers his father is not his real father and seeks out to meet his biological father for the first time.

By diana cignoni

Empty Space

As battle rages on, two lovers leave the planet in an escape pod. But their greatest threat is not war, as they both learn the true meaning of love and desperation.

By Philip Coleman

The Beach Man

On a small island, a young boy plays alone, building a sandcastle on the beach until he is interrupted by a mysterious man who isn't exactly in the best condition. Seeing this, the boy carries the man to his tree-house to look after him until he wake ...

Moths (Papillons de nuit)

Moths (Papillons de nuit)

Pauline spots a handsome man in a bar. She invites him home in a clumsy but keen way. At daybreak, after a short night of love, the unknown man becomes strangely intrusive. He doesn�t want to leave.

By Kaspar Vogler

Nameless

This short is one of the longest continuous shots in film history! First time filmmaker Caroline Jaden Stussi had the vision to shoot an independent film-novelty which consisted of one continuous shot. Next was the search of a theme that would bes ...

By Caroline Jaden Stussi

24K All You Need Is Gold

24K All You Need Is Gold

We are a sadly poor group of friends that have worked for years in this industry and have faild one after another. Our goal with this crazy project was to demonstrate that we can do art through mainstream. With a very low budjet (it doesent look like ...

GalileoMobile In the Land of Beauty

GalileoMobile In the Land of Beauty

GalileoMobile is a purely non-profit initiative run by astronomers, educators, and science communicators. It is a traveling science education programme that brings astronomy closer to young people around the world, and mainly across regions that have ...

By Domenico Zazzara

Seeking Truth in the Balkans

Seeking Truth in the Balkans

In 1993 the UN Security Council unanimously voted to establish the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to investigate war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide which were taking place in the Balkans. After the esta ...

By June Vutrano

Korean Song

An Ra Chung is wife, mother, devoted Christian and teacher of singing during the day. Her passion is lyrical singing. She arrived from South Korean and has lived with her family in Argentina for more than 30 years, in the Buenos Aires� Korean nei ...

By Yael Tujsnaider

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Building bridges based on the
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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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