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Building bridges based on the belief that film becomes art only when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil & paper. Cine Pobre Film Festival is the 100% self-funded intersection of culture and capabilities.

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Contributors

Heloisa Machado
Francisco Tomás Sanchez
mohammad Kazemzadeh mojde
Willy Burrut (seudónimo d
Martin Haag
Pirinha
Dani Feixas
Nima Tabandeh
Salih Cihan Özalp
Orangel Lugo
Rodrigo Sena
Esteban Santana Guerrero
Anton
Irina Ianovskaia
Eloy Gurucharri
Doron
Muriel Montini
Jaicheng Xai Dohutia
Konexion Kallejera
Tábata Clarissa de Morais

Eclipse by Santi Planet
Spain | Drama, Short
Inside Color by Dash Kolos
Russia / USA | Documentary
Love Blood Pain by Magnum Borini
Brasil | Film Noir
Blind Love by Damien Hauser
Kenya / Switzerland | African, relationship
Salvage by Christopher Boulton
USA | Documentary
Lost for Words by Elcid Asaei
United Kingdom | Short, relationship
Demons by Ruslan Gasanov
Russia | Feature, Horror
Qawwali - Music of the Mystics by Tahir Qawwal
Pakistan | Culture, Documentary
12:42

Zero-Sum Game by Amir Hossein Farrokhi
Iran | Drama, Short
Nahjum by Torres Greene / Del Valle
USA | Culture, Short
Las Rastreadoras by Adri�n Gonz�lez Robles
Mexico | Documentary
12:00

LEA by Nora Jaenicke
USA | Drama, Short
1:10:00

Mondo Hollywoodland by Janek Ambros
USA | B Movie
A Matter of Perspective by Gerda Leopold
Austria | Feature, experimental
Slow Revolution by Rustin Thompson
USA | Culture, Political
Down By Life by Rodrigo Areias
Portugal | Feature

Please Punish Me

United States

Chris Esper Director

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Since 2002

Building bridges based on the
belief that film becomes art
only when its materials are as
inexpensive as pencil & paper

Cine Pobre is the 100%
self-funded intersection of
culture and capabilities
[ Call for Entries 2025 ]

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

THE RIO HONGO EDITION
XXIII Cine Pobre Fim Festival 2025 / animation / documentary / experimental / music / african / underground / road trip

DIY MEDIA
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San Mateo Rio Hondo

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