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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

The Santa Lie

Six-year-old Amy confronts her parents on the truth about Santa early one Christmas morning.

By Darren Langlands

Potty Mouth

Charlie is in for a rude shock when he goes to the bathroom.

By Darren Langlands

Presence

Presence focuses on the contentious 45 year battle over the construction of a 2nd International Airport for Toronto that will destroy nearly 20,000 acres of the last best farmland in Canada. The film's director and narrator, Geoffrey Norris, investig ...

By Geoffrey Norris

Memoirs Of A Broken Mind (Memoari Slomljenog Uma)

Memoirs Of A Broken Mind (Memoari Slomljenog Uma)

This film represents emotional and sometimes surreal " ride " through states of consciousness . A selfinteroggation of the one who does not fit in the World (or it may seem that way), and tries to comprehend whether the World is falling apart or it i ...

By Danilo Lola Ilic

The Lost Salesman of Delhi

The Lost Salesman of Delhi

Raja, the saree salesman in Chandni chowk, one of the biggest markets in Asia, was leading a peaceful and simple life until the idea of having a home strikes him. He lost in a different world where there was no looking back but only losing all his se ...

By DEEPAK MAHAJAN

Habana streets vibrate all day long, People invade them and practice all kind of sports. From childhood, to old age. From marbles, to domino. Always. Popular tradition or lack of technology?

By Tian Cartier

Piggy Bank of Dreams (Sapnon Ka Gullak)

Piggy Bank of Dreams (Sapnon Ka Gullak)

They are all good people. Amir is a helper at a shack selling chai (tea). He aspires to buy a bike. Ammi is a household wife. She works as a maid at several places. The ideal mother who wants nothing more than happiness for her family. Abbu is a form ...

By Siddhant Paul

Comedy - No time for separation blues! The recently divorced Mia, mother of a pubescent son, is pushed into a online dating service blind date organized by her best friend. But what exactly does �Open-minded*� really mean?

By Dorothea Rosenberger

checkpost

Three lives that will never be the same again. Three lives wounded by one bullet. On a remote highway in Pakistan, the sandy roadside reverberates with the sound of a sudden gunshot. A lone film crew instinctively hits the ground. As they scramble to ...

Art

Ten creators from different parts of the world come to Tokyo Wonder Site, a residence for artists in Japan, for sharing experiences, learning from the others and, of course, to make art: visual art, performance, photography, painting� and an experime ...

By Ricardo Gonz�lez

Powerless

This is the story of a family like any other one ... almost "Powerless" or the ordinary life of Jean-Pierre, beaten and oppressed by his wife. A drama that denounces an disturbing truth.

#Confusion

#Confusion is a short movie by Yury Revich. Directed by Wen Liu, Yury Revich, Yuko Ichikawa If you are not perfect, and you know it... but then you meet someone who you think is a perfection for you. Or it might become�just a confusion?

Kaleh And Mbaki (Kaleh At Mbaki)

Kaleh And Mbaki (Kaleh At Mbaki)

A very hungry Hornbill bugs his busy master, the Shaman, to feed him. When it is ignored, the Hornbill resorts to other ways of catching it's master's attention but things take a turn for the worse.

By Dennis Sebastian

Changing Direction (Cambio de Sentido)

Changing Direction (Cambio de Sentido)

A parallel universe where only men exist. All fancy each other, but nobody can touch anyone for the fear of �the virus�. A retro futurist fashion driven society that has sophisticated so much, that when one of them by accident looses his education, i ...

By Kuya Manzano

The Lagoon (A Lagoa)

The Lagoon (A Lagoa)

A foreign man asks a fisherman to take him to the same spot of the lagoon everyday, what are they looking for?

By Nuno S� Pessoa

The Headless Nun

The Headless Nun

A thief meets the maker of the universe at the back room of a gas station

By Nuno S� Pessoa

Earth 2084

2084: The World Union is established, the World currency in circulation, and the crisis sees no end, will reason come from outer space?

By Nuno S� Pessoa

Two body snatchers decide to rob a corpse, at the morgue they meet a male coroner dressed as a woman with an obsession for reaching fame at all cost.

By Nuno S� Pessoa

Spider's Trap

SPIDERS TRAP tells the story of one man�s taste for revenge and another man�s dreams of glory. Jack Spider (Alan Sherlock) longs for the day when he can escape from prison and rob one more jewellery store. He can�t do it alone. He needs the Black Wa ...

No Justice

"NO JUSTICE" is a short, dark, gritty drama about what happens when an innocent young man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, gets killed by a drugs gang. What's a Father to do, and how does he live with it ? More importantly, how do we as a soci ...

Ixchel

It all begins when a young woman named Ixchel moves to live with her stepparents. After realize that Ixchel boyfriend got her pregnant they try to make her abort against her will. Ixchel maternal instinct would give her strength to face the harsh d ...

By Alfredo Moncayo

Xtreme Waste - Community Enterprise

Xtreme Waste - Community Enterprise

Written off as a bunch of dreamers before they even started, six friends from Raglan, New Zealand were determined to do something good for their town, no matter what it took. The community was so inspired when they volunteered to collect Raglan's ...

Sam Roma - We are Gypsies

Sam Roma - We are Gypsies

Roma people are peculiar, and their identity is lost somewhere in between the past and their roaming through the land. From India to Egypt and from Sweden to Britain the Wandering Kings of the Road are a steady part of human geography, sometimes livi ...

By Marina Danezi

UNDUNE

Undune is a documentary about Terra Preta, Feces & Mars. Terra Preta: a way to create a fertile, black soil out of our feces. Yes, feces, turds, poop, number 2, whatever you want to call them, they're inevitable and � strangely enough � valuable. I ...

By NewBorn Short Film Agency

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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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