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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

Voices Thrown Silent

Voices Thrown Silent

A mockumentary about the professional and personal lives of two people who practice the ultimate taboo: Interracial Ventriloquism!

By paul armstrong

The Human Mirror

The Human Mirror

Based on a real story. A 17-year-old girl with social anxiety has hardly any contact with the outside world. Never leaving her home she watches the cruelties being reported on the news every day, bringing her mind closer and closer to the dangerous n ...

The small Centaur told to Carolina that before coming to Mount Peace had to traverse the maze of spiders. A small place but full of corridors at the end of which lived a spider, but one that led to the exit.

Cogas

Cogas is a dark tale about vampire witches with long tails, forced to suck blood from newborn babies in order to survive. Old and tired, the protagonist witch relies her life on her blood supplies But when she has to go hunting again, the coga will f ...

By michela anedda

From midnight till dawn

From midnight till dawn

An insight on sensorial experiences, collective memory and sense of identity of the wool workers from Covilh�, establishing a link with the abandoned and degraded factories that have once been a symbol of prosperity.

By Vanessa Duarte

Missing

A dangerous yet remorseful man bleeds to death as he walks through a desert while in pursuit of his kidnapped wife. He will stop at nothing until he finds her, no matter how many men stand in his way.

By Lydelle Jackson

Dead Dogs

extinct: new choreographies in feminism

extinct: new choreographies in feminism

Extinct is a 20 minute experimental film made by Nina Fortier, Sara Blumenthal and a group of female artists in Olympia, Washington. It explores the lived experience of these women through the medium of film and performance. The performances culminat ...

By Nina Fortier

Flower of the Sea (Flor de la Mar)

Flower of the Sea (Flor de la Mar)

Flor de la Mar follows archaeologist Jorge Armand as he travels to Cubagua, a faraway Venezuelan island and home of the ruins of Nueva C�diz, the first European city built in South America. In 1515, Nueva C�diz was a slaving centre based on pearl exploit ...

By Lorenzo Signoretti

MY HUE OF BLUE

Tameko "Blue" Davis songwriter, producer, full-time engineer at her indie recording studio learns that her father, Teddy Davis is terminally ill from pulmonary fibrosis and is told to make final plans and consider hospice care. Blue is informed of h ...

By Kevin Rodgers

There is a Buzz (? ????? ??????)

There is a Buzz (? ????? ??????)

Petya, a man in his late 30s, comes to his mom to ask her for some money again, but he finds money right in front of her door. Of cause, the money is hers. What shall he do? Come on, nobody would have returned them! Or?..

By Tatiana Nikolaeva

We Were the Best

We Were the Best

Yoke Mun, an ordinary office worker is about to take the same journey that she and her best friends have taken 8 years ago, during their graduate road trip.

The guru

The recent suicide of a young girl will call into question the good will of The guru, the new internet sensation. Diana, her best friend, will be the one to investigate the tragic incident.

By Bouman Studios

Like if..

Special heroine must deal with a particular epidemic, alone will be able to save the earth?

By Daniele Bonarini

inverted perspective

inverted perspective

A young man who suffered from severe depression, due to run out of ideas to create a masterpiece, making leads to a drug "sedative", where the effects of the drug imagination that made her trapped inside in her fear imagination

By Andree Sascha Makasombo

In The Shadow of Paul Bunyan

In The Shadow of Paul Bunyan

In the Shadow of Paul Bunyan is a counter-history of the midwest's favorite lumberjack constructed from a wide assemblage of archival materials, including forgotten cartoons, decaying educational films, rotting theatre snipes, abandoned home movies, ...

A wanderer, who rathers be called by the name Roberto, pays for people's attention in order to publicize his knowledge and truths.

By Fl�vio Carnielli

Paradise River

Six lives intersect at a key moment in time at a place called Paradise River. This is a story about redemption and the yearning for freedom no matter what the cost

By alessandro di martini

The 8-Bit Cup

"The 8-Bit Cup"! A short film sports-themed pixel art video game battle for my Best Job Ever. 16 top-ranked jobs, in a tournament for all the marbles, in 7 different classic sports game settings, accompanied by ten of the most famous commentator ca ...

By Paul Johnson

EARTH, VIDEO GAMES, PORT MANN BRIDGE

EARTH, VIDEO GAMES, PORT MANN BRIDGE

EARTH, VIDEO GAMES, PORT MANN BRIDGE starts off in outer space, recalling video games from my youth. We pan over to Earth as seen from space, an image that stuck with me from the first time I saw a photo of the entire Earth as a child. Zooming in to ...

By Paul Johnson

In Debt We Art

A documentary about what makes the Romanian Independent theatre creators get up in the morning in today's global context, all wrapped around the thin red line of debt.

Max

Some decisions are tough.

By Rajesh Naroth

Fight Me

In the last ten years, global media has been constantly reporting a possible war between Iran and the West, Israel in particular. This documentary begins with a question: why should we, Iranians, fight the Israelis? Director talk with Iranian ordinar ...

By khashayar Mostafavi

The Minions

By Jeremiah Kipp

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Building bridges based on the
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Cine Pobre is the 100%
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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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