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The World's Best Self Funded FIlms

Angels of Hell

The nine months of armed conflict during 1971 that resulted in East Pakistan breaking away to become an independent Bangladesh is a story of blood and tears. Official and unofficial estimates of deaths range widely between 300,000 and three million. ...

By Shameem Shahid

Dinner With Ana

Dinner With Ana

Everyone has secrets... Renata's picture perfect marriage disintegrates over dinner, but what's left behind is far worse.

By Jianna Maarten

Extinction

Deep in the Amazon jungle a research team lead by a respected Professor strive to protect vulnerable and endangered species, but when their guides abandon them they soon realize they are in the hunting ground of prehistoric apex predators

By ben Loyd-Holmes

Tiny Champions

When the opportunity arises to move into a new office at their company, a hapless IT department stops at nothing to ensure they secure the new office and escape their tiny cubicle.

By Dan Reheuser

Nail V. (Nail V.)

Nail V. (Nail V.)

(Real) Heroes Don't Know They're Heroes! Nail V. documentary is a visual story of Nail Vahdeti �ak?rhan, a very inspirational character who lived an extraordinary life. He was a poet, a revolutionist, a journalist, a politician, a political convict, a ...

By Kurtulus Ozgen

The Bio Series: Episode One

The Bio Series: Episode One

The Bio Series is a four-part web mini-series created by Los Angeles-based artist/filmmaker, Jamie Naqvi. Somewhere between a documentary and a visual tone poem, this set of interconnected �mini-portraits� introduces us to four individuals and the hi ...

Looking Up Looking Down

Looking Up Looking Down

A young boy and girl skip school together and spend the day talking about the future. Years later they have a chance meeting and spend the night talking about the past.

Valentina

A woman. A man. A dog. Fate.

By Mois�s Romera P�rez

A BETTER PLACE (UN LUGAR MEJOR)

A BETTER PLACE (UN LUGAR MEJOR)

Thimbo wants to be a football player. Malik dreams of managing his own business. Demba just thinks of going to a better place.

By Mois�s Romera P�rez

That's me (??? ???)

That's me (??? ???)

The film talks about a young man's dreams and ambitions of the owner refused to colleges and several areas and he refused to surrender became a skillful painter and participated in exhibitions of painting in the last show that he physically handicapp ...

By hassanein khazaal

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

BLACK MOON (LUNE NOIRE)

BLACK MOON (LUNE NOIRE)

Early 19th century. An island. Three men. A long walk through the night.

By Gallien Guibert

RUBBER ROMANCE

A trip through the dark fantasies of a submissive S&M-slave and his unlikely romance with the woman he sees as his dominant mistress. Rubber Romance is a student film from the Netherlands Film Academy.

BLINDRUNNERS

Two Polish workers get fired in Holland and want to return home to their sick child. Can they resist temptation of earning a lot of money in a dark underworld dominated by criminals, illegal gambling and a dangerous game called �Blindrunning�? Blin ...

Manos The Hands of Fate: The Restoration

"Manos" The Hands of Fate: The Restoration

A vacationing family loses their way on a road trip in Texas and ends up trapped at a lodge inhabited by a polygamous pagan cult. The family attempts to escape as the cult members decide their fate. This notorious film, deemed by many the worst movie ...

By Benjamin Solovey

Somebody loves you

Somebody loves you

Ani is only 24, but by local standarts she is already the "aging" bride. She falls for a man who doesn't seem to notice her. Everyone hastens her to get married with any of her conquests - after all not so easy to differ from the majority in the vill ...

By Evelina Barsegian

Between the Lines (Zwischen den Linien)

Between the Lines (Zwischen den Linien)

Two Soldiers a Mohammedan and a Christian are waking up in a room. Their freedom of movement is very restricted because both are chained on feet and hands. The length of the chain is preventing them from going at each other's throats so they wage war ...

By Slavko Spionjak

Petrit Halilaj shares his own story. He comes from Runik�, a village in the region of Drenica (Kosovo), being one of the hundreds of thousands of refugees who were forcibly deported to camps in Albania and Macedonia. A child, he revealed his rare capac ...

By Dardan Selimaj

Red Father

RED FATHER follows the life of Bernard Ades, a Communist, Jewish lawyer raised in Baltimore and radicalized by the Great Depression. Set against the backdrop of the pre-civil rights era, the film follows Ades as he seeks to end systemic legal racism ...

By Tova Beck-Friedman

Paper plant (???????? ?????)

Paper plant (???????? ?????)

History of Paper Man.

By Pavel Zelenov

The Invention of the Year 2016

The Invention of the Year 2016

How make a film about time?

Pictograph

PITCH Pictograph documents the development of visual art in Iran by examining the lives of different generations artists through the use of in-depth interviews and an up-close look at their work. Pictograph documents the development of visual ar ...

By Roya Iravani

The island that was (L'isola che c'era)

The island that was (L'isola che c'era)

In 1954, legendary italian neorealist director Renato Dall�Ara shot his first short film, helped by a group of friends and communist Polesian cinema lovers. Being self-taught, he started the project almost just for fun about a fact which happened in ...

By alberto gambato

ImaginingT

IMAGINING T - Two people, two imaginaries, two parallel universes, unconsciously attracted to each other because of the mutual usage of testosterone. Andreas is transitioning from female to male. Gea is experimenting her fluid gender identity. T ...

By Naike Anna Silipo

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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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