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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

The Days God Slept

The Days God Slept

'The Days God Slept' is a cinematic prayer that deals with love and secrets; with faith and acceptance. Kristy has a secret to tell John and when she does - will their burgeoning ties of affection be strengthened or severed? Or will they find that th ...

By Jeremiah Kipp

Jalila ?????

It could be just another film about a woman, or a film about �the woman�, the ones we would see in our everyday lives. Jalila goes beyond depicting Syrian women involved in the uprising but rather brings a different perspective on women in a crisis ...

UPLOADING

A video blogger's dream turns into a nightmare when an embarrassing clip goes viral.

By Michael Dalton

It's carnival day, but what lurks in Paradise City?

By Andr� Arag�o

La Storia di Sonia

La Storia di Sonia

Sonia's life is marked by her love for art and beauty at the end of her personal renaissance in a Florence of the '70s.

By Lorenzo Guarnieri

The Heimlich maneuver

The Heimlich maneuver

The Heimlich maneuver is a faux documentary built around Alex Pareja, a writer who chalked up a huge success with his first novel, inspired by the absurd death of an ex-girlfriend. 10 years later, Alex receives a proposal to adapt his book for film. ...

By Manolo Ramos

Camera Iperbarica

Camera Iperbarica

The step between genius and stupidity is very short , almost as much as the distance between sense and nonsense , or between reality and fiction . Where is "Camera Iperbarica" ? In the middle.

By Maurizio Loi

Fantastic

Balloon men, crazed composers, horny history teachers, poets trapped in experimental film cliches, talking donuts, the Hawaiian Wizard of Oz, and OTHER THINGS are set amongst some of the greatest (and rarest) classical pieces of all time in this live ...

By Vincent Gargiulo

The Abyss (Bezdna)

The Abyss (Bezdna)

Deep inside an abandoned industrial area in a bottomless pit lies unknown danger - this is what a jealous young man sees in his dream. Meanwhile, his beloved girlfriend cheats on him with his best friend. Or does she? What if that is only an illusion ...

By Sergii Bazhenov

VENTO. Italy by bike along the Po River

VENTO. Italy by bike along the Po River

Vento is the travel diary of the eight days it took five designers to cycle across Italy, following the course of the river Po from Turin to Venice. Completed for the first time, this 630-kilometre ride was intended to demonstrate the feasibility of ...

By paolo casalis

Hotel Bellevue

A journey through time which leads us into the early 60s: With interviews and poetic images the film portrays a family business between tradition and change: The Hotel Bellevue in Lauenburg, a little West German city located at the former inner Germa ...

By Claire Walka

The Cry of Life

The Cry of Life

A young girl plays every morning with a mysterious girl, what they do it's observed by her mother. They will tell us the story of something that happened between the past and present of them.

By Javier Server

Nikola Mihov

Nikola Mihov is a short portrait of the life, work and beliefs of one of the most influential young photographs in Bulgaria. He travels the world alone with his backpack catching the spirit of conflicts, paradoxes, riots. Above all there is a human s ...

By Rozaliya Dimitrova

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

NEW GAZA

An old orthodox jew partners with a Palestinian friend in a small enterprise of American and Israel flag making in Sao Paulo, Brazil to sell them to the Arab protesters. The factory is run by a Korean who employs Bolivian illegal immigrants. Based on ...

By Livio Tragtenberg

FACES

Frank Walker lived alone. He had no job. No friends. No girlfriend. Then Charlie came along and everything changed

Andrea en una caja

Andrea en una caja

Patricia and Andrea have an argument, which puts their relationship in a limbo. Patricia leaves for a work trip and Andrea makes a decision that might change their lives forever.

By Adri�n A. Gonz�lez Camargo

Isabelle

Leon is a grieving husband on the verge of a major mental break. He will stop at nothing to be reunited with his wife Isabelle. The problem is...she's already dead. This film is a black and white, romantic horror love story. It explores Leon's twiste ...

By Jennifer Valdes

Golden Bird (Sonali Pakhi)

Golden Bird (Sonali Pakhi)

A child came to his village home and listens a story from his grandmother. In earlier days the elders used to tell stories of imaginary characters to encourage children. Those imaginary things captured the children too much that they remained with th ...

By Debraj Sarkar

Starting Over: A Record of Faith

Starting Over: A Record of Faith

Starting Over: A Record of Faith, is a short documentary about a former drug addict, who found salvation while staying at Elmwood state prison on drug related charges. After her release, she had a miraculous transformation of character where she at t ...

By Kendra Arsenault

Life

On an isolated beach, Sarah finally discloses to her beloved father Sean the pact she made with her mother when she was a child, but unbeknown to her the tragedy which was still to follow.

By Maria Hylton

Home

A teenage boy joins the US military during the Vietnam War and, while serving overseas, gets separated from his squad.

By Alec Shangold

Hydro the film

A risky underwater non verbal adaptation of Homer's Odyssey with this great soundtrack https://hydrothefilm.bandcamp.com/

poison

The location: An army base in southern Israel where wild goats (ibexes) roam freely and where female soldiers stand at attention, switch off any individualized thinking, and follow rules that are clear, and behavior patterns are cast in concrete. Che ...

By roni rainhartz

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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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