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Bonifacio

In our society where illiteracy is discriminated upon, a single father struggles to overcome these even if it means he has to start from the first grade.

By Grace Simbulan

Six Feet Up

A mother and a choice she made. A woman and her love for an ancient job. Francesca is an embalmer, or, as she prefers to be called, a mortuary make up artist. Death is her daily dimension.

By Nicola Lucchi

Agnus Dei

A young man Peter, who is around thirties, lives a desperate life with his mother Maria and her husband Stojan in one village of Serbia. Peter is born in Kosova from a forbidden love between his mother Maria and the young Albanian man, but for this ...

THE LOVERS OF SEASONS

THE LOVERS OF SEASONS

The dreamy wedding in the keys of a discordant machine. The premature leaves of melancholy, in love with good music� However, the mornings of the wedding�s eve become choked up.

By Natalia Luc�a Legarreta Corn�s

Thomas Hawk

"THOMAS HAWK is an action story about a kidnapping that is not what it seems to be, a kidnapped girl who is not who she appears to be and a boyfriend who's more than what they were expecting."

By Yogesh Sharma

Yikes! The Arrival

Yikes! The Arrival

A spoof about super villain wannabe, who wants to take over the world by messing up their text messages and e-mails.

By Surinder Chohan

Upovanie

A russian space cargo vessel operator OLEG (Tommi Raitolehto) has decided to kill himself but cannot - the love for his family is too strong. A family lost in the outer space. A family he has searched for nine years. On the brink of his crisis, Oleg ...

By Hannu Koivuranta

Grey Glory

"Grey Glory" is a heartwarming and inspirational documentary about Canadian seniors who?are pushing their bodies to the limit, redefining our perceptions of aging. "Grey Glory" tells the story of five extraordinary athletes; Olga Kotelko, a ninety-f ...

By Brandy Yanchyk

Grey Ambition

"Grey Ambition" is a documentary about Canadian seniors who are making retirement extraordinary. "Grey Ambition" features fashion tycoon Harry Rosen, who has gone back to school in his eighties; Henry Schroeder, a ninety-five year old who builds air ...

By Brandy Yanchyk

IF YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN

IF YOU LOVE YOUR CHILDREN

Raj Camarta has it all, a great job, a beautiful wife, a comfortable home, but he is haunted by the loss of innocent people in a natural disaster fueled by climate change. He begins a crusade to educate the world and in so doing destroys his marriage ...

By Sanjay Patel

Water to Tabato

Water to Tabato

We flew over to Guinea-Bissau, Africa, for a movie footage. I�m a first director assistant. We are filming in the capital, Bissau. On the third day we leave to Bolama, an Island in the Bijagos archipelago and former capital of the country until 1941. ...

By Paulo Carneiro

The Nightmare

It is said there is a land between this world and the next...where life and death meet. Our greatest fantasies can be seen, touched...lived. This world is not meant for the living and the dead does not take kindly to intruders. Invade their world, an ...

By Mauricio Perez

Rock Paper Scissors

Rock Paper Scissors

A family of three people lives in a slum district. Child is a weak willed person selling battery chargers at traffic jam and aware of the conditions and injustice he is into. He owns a ritual to smooth away his anger by dropping stones into the water ...

Restoring Quetzalcoatl

Restoring Quetzalcoatl

After 40 years, the original artists of the Chicano Park murals, through a grant from Caltrans received the opportunity to re-invigorate the aging murals with new techniques, fresh ideas, and seasoned talent. The documentary delves into the original ...

By Horacio Jones

Drug Mule

She was forced to smuggle a load of drugs from the Philippines into mainland China.

By Christine Gutierrez

Salt & Lemon (Sal y Limon)

Salt & Lemon (Sal y Limon)

Story of Alberto's journey after years away from his long lost love, his ex-wife. After years of contemplation, he realizes why they parted and the cause of their marriage to fall apart. Alberto shocked with reality, decides to record his confession ...

Villari

By Prashant Vanjani

The Day After Calvary

The Day After Calvary

The Day After Calvary - Tamil Short film [2015] This is a fantasy thriller and a Christianity based fiction, The movie was happening on Dark Saturday(next day of Good Friday), were two journalists going to a Island to find where ghost exist in this ...

By Akhil Rose Oliver

FRAGMENTS OF MAY

FRAGMENTS OF MAY

The elliptical tale of a young woman affected by a breakdown. Inspired by Emily Dickinson�s early poems about life, and David Foster Wallace�s very first short story, which visualises mental illness as living on a different planet to Earth, FRAGMENT ...

By Maria Pia Fanigliulo

Sea Bright Rising

Sea Bright Rising

This is the story of Sea Bright, New Jersey's struggle to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy through the leadership of an unpaid Democrat Mayor and a Republican Councilman. It is also the story of how a town in Vermont connected with a town in NJ five h ...

The Load

�THE LOAD� is a portrait of a modern businessman. After a car accident he faces the biggest natural, Finnish wilderness, and a hike takes him to new places physically and mentally.

By pelle folmer

The Last Intervention

The Last Intervention

The rebellious daughter (Alyssa Abreu) of divorced Dominican parents discovers her family is having an intervention in her honor in THE LAST INTERVENTION a new comedy from the producing team Rafael Blanco, Giovanny Blanco and Sarah Thorp, director Gi ...

By Giovanny Blanco

Oddities (Rarezas)

"Oddities" ("Rarezas")

One night, the Photographer, a man who takes post-mortem photographs, is seeked by a woman. The Client, needs him to do an unusual job: Take a photo of her dead wife's body arranged as the painting "The Nightmare" by Fuseli. The Photographer agrees t ...

By Luis Emilio Cerna Mazier

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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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