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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

Stolen Moments

After the loss of a sister and the possible end of your relationship , Marcelo , a freelance reporter of Maringa , tries to get back to the routine when she discovers who is suspected of a crime not remember having committed a robbery that compromise ...

By Ribamar Nascimento

How To Make A Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

How To Make A Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich

Making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich seems easy until you think about all the decision making and philosophy behind it.

A Fight To Propose

A Fight To Propose

Kevin and Jen love each other very much. Now it might be time to take the next step.

Rehovot

On a sunlit afternoon a mother leaves her girl at the entrance to a swimming pool. The girl watches the water, when behind her a man is approaching. The man asks her to follow him, she hesitates but finally agrees. This journey will take her throug ...

By Sofia Gutman

Jila

A bizarre womanhood in the land of Iran. Zahra and Zeynab are two sisters who were born with a special feature. As treatment jila, an old friend of theirs, put them into a weird condition and game.

By karim lakzadeh

Cup of Roses

Man being analyzes of disease die, and then back haunting Visor his sons during attempts to sell the house

By yazan alassadi

Wasted

It�s about three-university students doing meth as a drug to try a new thing and possibly enjoy a better high. While doing that, the girl overdoses and the boys think she died and throw her body in the lake; when she really just seized due to overdos ...

By yazan alassadi

Paradise is here

Paradise is here

By yazan alassadi

As the tree under the hurricane

As the tree under the hurricane

Two sisters Ati and Mindhiva; They are part of the Arhuaca tribe a Colombian indigenous culture. Their dream is to continue with their university studies. They have no money and it is impossible for them to enter into the National University... Ne ...

By Claudia Fischer

Raising West

Raising West is the story of three travelers in the town of Tombstone, Arizona who's paths cross when they are framed by Sheriff Wyatt Earp as being part of the infamous Clanton Gang. These three travelers find themselves on the run for a crime they ...

By Nick Johnston

I LOVED YOU SO MUCH

I LOVED YOU SO MUCH

In 1986 a cancerous wind blew towards Trabzon from Chernobyl. It was followed by a wind of �Natashas� a few years later. Battered by these gales, Trabzon would never be the same again. Cemal(30) and his wife Ay?e(25) live happily in Trabzon with the ...

By nurdan tekeoglu

HELL TOWN

HELL TOWN follows the melodramatic antics of high school seniors clashing over love, sex, and betrayal. In the middle of all the one-sided infatuations, backstabbing bitchiness, bottled-up sexuality, sibling rivalry and general small-town angst, ther ...

By STEVE BALDERSON

Nagima (??????)

Nagima (??????)

Nagima is an ugly, illiterate and uncommunicative graduate of the orphan home. Nagima rents a tiny room on the outskirts of the city of Almaty with her "orphanage" girlfriend, pregnant sister Anya. Anya once met a guy and wanted to get married, but i ...

By Darya Belkina

Out of Pace (Descompasso)

Out of Pace (Descompasso)

One day Time breaks and order fades

By Rodolfo de Castilhos

Rodrigo arrives to the city seeking for a relationship whit his father. His intentions quickly fade away once he meets his half-sister Javiera and his fellow worker C�sar. Each one is inmersed in its own problems: Rodrigo tries to adapt to the lonely c ...

I, a tiny drop

A video about the importance of the water in the environment..

By EVI PHOTOPOULOS

The Traffic Light

The Traffic Light

An elderly woman is waiting for the color change of the traffic light to cross the street, but an unexpected event could change her purpose.

The RichZone Dream

The RichZone Dream

In a world divided by rich and poor, exist a great wall between them. A ball, a poor people, a dream and a travel to The RichZone, where the fear reborn.

My Eyes

Once upon a time there was an old lady who had a doll. She loved painting, but one day an accident changed the way in which she sees her world, to find her forgotten past.

Chibi Pa: Suki Desu: For Fans By Fans

Chibi Pa: Suki Desu: For Fans By Fans

A retrospective documentary about Florida's longest running Japanese cultural convention "Chibi Pa", including interviews from fans, staffers, and creators of the festival

By Miles Stanley

after a while

Dionysia (Les Dionysies)

Dionysia (Les Dionysies)

After an accident, Marcelle looks to rebuild her life. Enclosed within four walls, she invent a new world in the name of revenge. How far can lead a mourning?

By Oliwia Socha

Sharminda

Sharminda is a man's journey to understand a woman's journey in this society. His dream of a baby girl... eventually shatters with his wife being poisoned through absurd means making her barren forever. Moreover his own mother is responsible for the ...

By Vishal Srivastava

Seoul Mates

A gender bending tale of Filipino Lady boy and Korean discreet gay who meet and date each other, with the first one pretending to be a real woman and the latter pretending to be a straight guy. Seoul Mates was first screened in the Philippines at Ci ...

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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
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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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