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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

Burning from the inside

Burning from the inside

�Burning from the inside� is a socio-political documentary, coming out from the streets of Athens and Berlin. Using the rise of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn as the main axe, it exposes the fascist structures and the social disintegration witch inva ...

By Marsia Tzivara

The Mods

Michelino and Soya�s 3D puzzle�

By Alessandro Portincasa

Sweet sixteen

Eight students in a high school in Montreal use the theatre as a way to liberate their voice.

By Naomie D�carie-Daigneault

A Sunny Christmas

A Sunny Christmas

A Sunny Christmas is an animated short, based off the artwork of Joseph R. Davis, about a sad doll named Sunny and his holiday surprise one Christmas Eve night.

By Brian Gerson Gerson

A letter to a Terrorist

A letter to a Terrorist

Alan and Naomi was shot and killed brutally by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Kia Sherr the wife and mother Alan and Naomi Sherr is trying to meet the lone surviving terrorist.

By Parthiban Shanmugam

Paper Planes

In April 2014 two hundred and twenty nine passengers disappeared along with the plane in the mid air, while traveling to China.... A year latter security camera footage was found in the abandoned military base.

By Parthiban Shanmugam

The Rainy Night

The Rainy Night

It is telling a story of two refugee who come from Iraq and Bulgaria to Turkey.

By Alaaddin Toy

Official video of Malice of Grecas talking about the heartbreak of a couple where the woman, in this case the artist says it forgot the love of his former partner ....

By THOMAS HECTOR EDUARDO TAYCO SOLARI

Bright Future My Love (Divna budu?nost ljubavi moja)

Bright Future My Love (Divna budu?nost ljubavi moja)

Depiction of society and the individual by travelling to the future and experiencing a complete extreme of human insensitivity. Man is depicted as an absolute consumer and absolute consumption is an inescapable development, according to the author. T ...

By Marko �uni?

Long Lost Father (1)

Long Lost Father (1)

A young woman looks for her long lost father.

By Vincenzo De Jonghe

All That Remains (Ma She'nishar)

All That Remains (Ma She'nishar)

Once she realized her death is imminent, Liora, a 54 years old Biology PhD and a medical researcher, decided to organize her departure from life with no compromises. On her computer she opened a 'Finalize and Overlap' folder and listed all the tasks ...

By Kineret Hay-Gillor

Pestilence - A plague of a disease

Pestilence - A plague of a disease

After the 3rd world war, 99%of the population was exterminated. The laboratory made virus, Z-TA032, had infected many of the people who died.

By Bruno Santana

Moment Of Happiness

Moment Of Happiness

Sailor is arriving back at home to see his girlfriend for a short break.First moments are beautiful, full of joy and love. Due the passing time relationship starts to crash slowly as the young couple is not used to live together anymore. Letter from ...

By Sakari Lerkkanen

Chaplin SP

Chaplin SP is, essentially, a remix of various Charlie Chaplin movies turned into stop motion animation and subsequently transformed into stencils cut by hand. All-in-all we painted over 650 stencils throughout the Vila Madalena, Sumar�, & Pompeia neig ...

By V�nia Ferreira

RENAUD

Renaud's mum is ill. A succession of events will bring them back together as it used to be.

Silentcraft: Its Everything But

Silentcraft: Its Everything But

Two brothers fight over there tastes in video games, but one who plays minecraft gets a sword and chases his brother around the house in a comedic killer game.

By Miles Stanley

Love Like This

If you had the opportunity to have a love thet fit you perfectly. It didn't come the way you thought it would come or who you thought it would be from ....would you keep it? And if you kept it to what extent would you go to defend it

By NeVaughn Brown

Molly

A teenage girl is trapped in the gritty Los Angeles underworld of drugs and prostitution between the mistake she made, the friend she lost and a debt she's unable to pay.

By Greg Karpinski

After a serious neglect a woman tries to gets back her life her partner and above all her son.

By Yolanda Rom�n

"FIXED"

Jemimah wants Tilly to have puppies. At any cost.

By Burleigh Smith

The film tells the story of the birth of surfing culture in Brazil, and the American and Peruvian influences on the sport. With the longboard as the the central topic, surfing pioneers in Rio de Janeiro and S�o Paulo, recall their surf memories, going ...

By V�nia Ferreira

Children of the Light

Children of the Light

'Children of the Light' is the first film to tell the life story of Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu, one of the fathers of modern day South Africa. With extensive archival footage, family photos and never before seen interviews, 'Children of the Ligh ...

By ELIZABETH HOLLOWAY

Jana Gana Mana

�Jana Gana Mana� is a story of a child who sells the Tricolour on the eve of Republic Day and Independence Day but doesn�t know the value of the national flag. He tries to enter a school on Independence Day, where students are singing the national an ...

DARE

Noah is coming back to London after a 2 years trip in Australia and, as usual, the first person he stops to see is Sam, his older friend. But very soon the games from the past will, once again, come in the way of their relationship.

By Jeanne Chevalier

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Building bridges based on the
belief that film becomes art
only when its materials are as
inexpensive as pencil & paper

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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