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Best Self Funded Film 2022

Adoption

After finding an old video cassette labeled *Adoption a Mexican teenage girl and her…

Best Self Funded Film 2022

Yomigaeru – To Live Again

Tired of all that jazz an Italian double-bass player travels to Fukushima to tune into…

Experimental

Andjust

The sacred satire of the stand art host and great stuff before they become dust.

Documentary

The Crossing

After many years of hard work in Italy a migrant returns to Burkina Faso with a full…

Best Self Funded Film 2022

Day Watchers

The fatal day a French pervert stalked the wrong woman.

Best Self Funded Film 2022

The Ride

A Mexican man recovers his pickup truck after a carjacking.

Documentary

Naked America

A female filmmaker interviews American men in the nude.

Documentary

15 Seconds A Lifetime

One-third of TikTok's 700 million users are 18-35 year old working class Indians.

Best Self Funded Film 2022

Potluck

Could hosting a potluck make an insecure middle-aged woman's dream for belonging come…

Best Self Funded Film 2022

Rumbo: First Pee

When a Canadian woman is denied the use of a bathroom in the small town of Hope things go…

Documentary

You Can’t Get There From Here

Anything can happen on the road from the UK to Gambia when you transport prosthetic limbs…

animation

Ride Of The Devil’s Teeth

A gang of thieves on horseback riding through the desert in the moonlight.

Best Self Funded Film 2022

The Model

What is more important: art or life?

psychedelic

Tangerine Labyrinth

A journey through Labyrinths in the city by the bay as the iPhace unrolls loops of time…

Best Self Funded Film 2022

Fourteen Days

The greatest sacrifice of all is the surrender of time.

Documentary

Cine Hidalgo

Eighty years ago Uriel Hidalgo began navigating the state of Guerrero Mexico in his Jeep…

Documentary

Paradise Lost – History In The Unmaking

When a filmmaker set out to document the final days of Birmingham's Brutalist…

Best Self Funded Film 2022

The Gullible Poor

We condition the poor with hope and promises.

Best Self Funded Film 2022

Sweet Potato

A story of discovering how we want to be loved.

Documentary

Insta-Shepherd

Surrounded by boundless steppes a lonely shepherd entertains himself by running his…

Experimental

Miles & Kilometres

A lingering haiku poem of migration, separation, dislocation, and exile.

Best Self Funded Film 2022

Whirlwind

New rhythms of life emerge during a time of rapid sociocultural change.

Best Self Funded Film 2022

I Want To Be A Writer

Every week a beautiful woman dying of cancer visits a lonely young man to have a good…

Documentary

The Last Photo

After a bomb attack a war photographer starts looking for his last photo and a new arm.

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Best Self Funded Film 2022

Adoption

After finding an old video cassette labeled *Adoption a Mexican teenage girl and her…

Best Self Funded Film 2022

Yomigaeru – To Live Again

Tired of all that jazz an Italian double-bass player travels to Fukushima to tune into…

Experimental

Andjust

The sacred satire of the stand art host and great stuff before they become dust.

Documentary

The Crossing

After many years of hard work in Italy a migrant returns to Burkina Faso with a full…

Best Self Funded Film 2022

Day Watchers

The fatal day a French pervert stalked the wrong woman.

Best Self Funded Film 2022

The Ride

A Mexican man recovers his pickup truck after a carjacking.

Documentary

Naked America

A female filmmaker interviews American men in the nude.

Documentary

15 Seconds A Lifetime

One-third of TikTok’s 700 million users are 18-35 year old working class Indians.

Best Self Funded Film 2022

Potluck

Could hosting a potluck make an insecure middle-aged woman’s dream for belonging come…

Best Self Funded Film 2022

Rumbo: First Pee

When a Canadian woman is denied the use of a bathroom in the small town of Hope things go…

Documentary

You Can’t Get There From Here

Anything can happen on the road from the UK to Gambia when you transport prosthetic limbs…

animation

Ride Of The Devil’s Teeth

A gang of thieves on horseback riding through the desert in the moonlight.

Best Self Funded Film 2022

The Model

What is more important: art or life?

psychedelic

Tangerine Labyrinth

A journey through Labyrinths in the city by the bay as the iPhace unrolls loops of time…

Best Self Funded Film 2022

Fourteen Days

The greatest sacrifice of all is the surrender of time.

Documentary

Cine Hidalgo

Eighty years ago Uriel Hidalgo began navigating the state of Guerrero Mexico in his Jeep…

Documentary

Paradise Lost – History In The Unmaking

When a filmmaker set out to document the final days of Birmingham’s Brutalist…

Best Self Funded Film 2022

The Gullible Poor

We condition the poor with hope and promises.

Best Self Funded Film 2022

Sweet Potato

A story of discovering how we want to be loved.

Documentary

Insta-Shepherd

Surrounded by boundless steppes a lonely shepherd entertains himself by running his…

Experimental

Miles & Kilometres

A lingering haiku poem of migration, separation, dislocation, and exile.

Best Self Funded Film 2022

Whirlwind

New rhythms of life emerge during a time of rapid sociocultural change.

Best Self Funded Film 2022

I Want To Be A Writer

Every week a beautiful woman dying of cancer visits a lonely young man to have a good…

Documentary

The Last Photo

After a bomb attack a war photographer starts looking for his last photo and a new arm.

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