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Casting for the lead role

Casting for the lead role

The story takes place in a strange and mysterious location which one cannot define clearly. One by one the actors come to the mysterious director and his assistants who live there in order to get the leading role... An ordinary casting has an unusual ...

By Sergey Tsimbalenko

Flower Delivery (El Florista)

Flower Delivery (El Florista)

Is about how a distraction can unchain domino-effect consequences and affect the life of a number of people.

INFECTED

After the accident, Rebecca discovers herself in a very different world than she remembers. Plagued by her patchy memory and self-doubt she fends for herself. She encounters Gary who tells her a terrifying story of his escape from the local jail. Can ...

By JASON WRIGHT

Purple Skies

�Purple Skies�, a feature documentary by award winning filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan, weaves together heartrending stories of LBT people victimized and subjugated by the law, the family & society, as well as hopeful stories of youngsters who have come o ...

By Sridhar Rangayan

The Woods

A quiet post-apocalyptic drama, The Woods follows a lone woman struggling to survive in a desolate snowscape, while on a quest to take care of personal business.

By Remington Smith

The Fool

Hounded by uncertainty and fleeing from the Police, a young man flirts with love and an idyllic life while on the run.

Adventures of Malia

Adventures of Malia

Malia and her family live in the dull city of Southern Hinterland. Southern Hinterland was once a beautiful city located along the Titanic Ocean, which got destroyed due to the evil actions of its citizens. The people of Southern Hinterland in their ...

By shubhavi arya

The Kids from Marx & Engels Street

The Kids from Marx & Engels Street

Story about youth of two brothers: in the same night - older brother, Stanko (30), is going to kill a man for a first time � and his 16-years brother Vojo is going to make love for the first time. Many things between two brothers will cross them on t ...

By nikola vukcevic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFdTbRchX6A ... a social resposability event about the notes written by the citizens on any kind of lid that passes from one to another... against banning the internet, we spread our message by frisbee frisbee hits th ...

By serhat �zer

the urban fresbee

the urban fresbee

people make a fresbee... / a social responsability event about the notes written by the citizens on any kind of lid that passes from one to another... against banning the internet, we spread our message by frisbee frisbee hits the urban barriers ...

By serhat �zer

What a Wonderful World / Ce Lume Minunata

What a Wonderful World / Ce Lume Minunata

After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist au ...

By Sergiu Cumatrenco

The Hitchhiker

Luke was an outstanding student with a promising future in the business world, but it all ended with his fateful death in a car crash. After more than 25 years in pursuit of his deceased brother's dream, Mark Seymore has lost the joy of life and it i ...

in the wind

Desperate grassroots director Lan Hai and a friend of his named Ouyang, they decided to film a mockumentary. Jiang Xiao, a graduating senior student influenced by the Chinese mainstream education, he decided to film the entire process of LAN's mocku ...

By Lan Shuzhang

ESCAPES (HUIDAS)

ESCAPES (HUIDAS)

After China's father death, China gets involved in a trip which will help her to find the human being's essence. A travel in which she will discover that running away is not the way

By mercedes gaspar

HUIDAS (HUIDAS (ESCAPES))

HUIDAS (HUIDAS (ESCAPES))

China, in his flight he finds travelers who her help, or they guide it, but also moment lives terrible, of that it recovers in a residence for battered women. There it knows Caddy Adzuba (the famous journalist of the Republic of the Congo) and discov ...

By mercedes gaspar

Blood Empires

Blood Empires has been turned down by over 50 festivals; it has also made it to the final selection process of more than half of those, including Wales International Film Festival, Oaxaca, Pollygrind, and currently is the first alternate for the Tamp ...

By Daniel Lloyd

Child for hire

This is the story of Samantha, a 12 year old orphan who lived with her brother in one of the largest slums in Nairobi. One problem leads to another and she ends up in the streets of Nairobi

Lost in Escapade

Lost in Escapade

A short psychological drama with elements of magical realism about a Georgian couple, Sandro and Tina, who get lost in the desert of the Emirates and discover changes happening in their relationship.

By Beso Turazashvili

Colourless (??-???)

Colourless (??-???)

Its a film depicting the discrimination people suffer from, the discrimination of religion. It depicts consumerism and hypocrisy of a common man. The film focuses how water, a colourless element, unites people from two religion and brings back the co ...

By Anirban Karmakar

The Technician

A prying I.T. technician who copies private files from his clients' computers uncovers something best left hidden.

VAIN

The Night an International Douche-Lord's Career & Life came to a Screeching Halt.

ENCOSTO

After performing a macumba (Brazilian black magic), a man discovers that the price of your desires may be too high!

By Joel Caetano

JUDAS

Holy Saturday is a day of burning the Judas Doll ... do you have courage?

By Joel Caetano

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By Neulsaem CHOI

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Building bridges based on the
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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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XXIII Cine Pobre Fim Festival 2025 / animation / documentary / experimental / music / african / underground / road trip

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