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Exteriors
A murder case in the most popular show irreality. To investigate is called Captain Nemo, the protagonist of the TV series "Under Investigation". The director of the reality show, Delta, however, does not want Nemo discover the whole truth. Nemo conducts its investigations, on live TV. And at the end of interrogations and false leads, during the final season of the reality, live on TV, with all the stars of this show, as in a yellow old-fashioned way, Nemo solves the case and reaches its conclusions: This story follows a screenplay; the reality is different: the other side of the camera there is no one ... no one is watching this program, but the characters are watching themselves ... and the house of the reality show is not located in ninth size ... but it is our reality. |
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Brakes
Saxon, lost her mother in a car accident a year ago, since then she has changed a lot inside and out. During a night out, a stranger gives Saxon a ‘special substance’ to take. Then after another serious fight with her dad, Saxon retreats back into her room and takes the substance. Suddenly, Saxon starts to hear smashing of objects from the other room. |
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Naked Dreams
Joanna wakes up from a sensual yet slightly disturbing dream which leads her to relive her passionate yet complicated love story with David. As she goes out for a run we can see her memories through flashbacks which eventually lead to an emotional breakdown and Joanna questioning herself and the decisions she took... |
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Just Let Go
It's locked. You have locked the front door. Everything is fine, it's fine. Just walk away, just let go. A new film from JustaRide that explores the inner workings of a modern generation as they try and cope with the day to day pressures weighing heavy on their shoulders. WATCH NOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyq_xXgXUL8 |
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Hide and Seek
A young father takes his daughter to the playground, while playing on his phone he looks up and sees that shes gone and finds a note. Worried the young father is on the hunt to find his daughter while discovering other notes along the way. By the end of his adventure he finds out his daughter has been missing for 2yrs. |
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PPH Squad
The crack team of Miami's Pet Peeves Homicide Squad tracks a deranged Serial Killer. |
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Life's Law
An everyday struggle. When life makes you choose between wealth and family. WATCH NOW https://vimeo.com/150552742 |
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Lily
Lily is a short drama set in a single location. The story looks at the long-lasting adverse effects of parental abuse. Shot in various rooms of a single location, the narrative is threaded through the numerous sexual encounters of Lily, and her inability to connect in a loving relationship. Her relationships or sexual encounters cause pain and hurt which leads us to question what she is looking for. Her life is confined by the people around her, as she tries to break out and free herself. |
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Amber
One event has led to a routine robbery drastically falling apart. With a scared witness gagged on the sofa of her own home, hard arguments rise over what to do with her, made only harder as ulterior motives start to bubble to the surface. WATCH NOW https://vimeo.com/150534384 |
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Shadows
After being attacked in real life by 2 gang members, I decided to make this short film with added police drama -action. This is my first film production. I hope you guys like it. |
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Yours Accidentally
Driving home one day from his summer job on a lavender farm, student Luke Jacobs runs over a beautiful young woman. Insisting that he takes her home rather than to the hospital, the young woman works her seductive charm on him and it isn't long before he falls in love with her. However, others around Luke start to show concern for him the more he becomes entangled in this mysterious woman's world. It isn't long before Luke reaches a point of no return, unable to pull his life back from the edge as he gradually comes to realise what has really been going on in this romantic drama with a twist. |
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Forgiveness
A patient is attending a session with his hypnotherapist.The purpose is to travel back to childhood through the milestones of the whole past life.We can feel the conflict and the complexity.The theme is waking hypnosis.The first step is the pre-talk while the therapist prepares the patient for the long journey.Then comes the induction which is the familiarization and training to carry on with the journey.Last comes the regression towards the past while the patient tries to forgive-by force & the hypnotherapist's simulation-perpetrated sins & harm that was done by others to him.And this is the only means to live in peace and harmony.Latest will be future pacing in the trip back from past to the present and ultimately deriving conclusion for a peaceful, harmonious future.N*B: All scenes are illustrated in SFX, VFX and surrealistic atmosphere. |
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Until death do you part
In a future where contract killings are legal, Leon orders the murder of his wife he can’t stand anymore. On the day, everything seems to go as planned… Until clause 9.7 gets in the way. |
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Silent Night
On Christmas Eve everything seems to go wrong for Nova and one lie leads to another. Will she be able to get out of this uncomfortable situation? "Silent Night" is a christmas themed drama with comedic elements set in Berlin with only three characters, which makes the story an intense love triangle with a holiday spirit and a few funny and awkward moments. |
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A Village Where God Does Not Exist
A subsistent story between Barcelona and Istanbul. Esequiel leaves his dark past behind him. He decides to move to Istanbul, to begin a fresh start. Once he arrives in Istanbul his past never leaves him and he is stuck in his own mind. Whilst seeking for a fresh start he suffers inside and struggles to get out of his dark thoughts. Lea is left behind, by Esequiel and suffers the unmeaningful, causeless loss of Esequiel leaving. A shattering story, which combines two nostalgic cities of Europe Barcelona and Istanbul. With old souls of the cities, groups of people meet in one dark common place " A Village Where God Does Not Exist", where we witness deep drama, anxiety and despair. WATCH NOW https://filmfreeway.com/project/449306 |
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Flamingo
During Taliban regime's last days in 911 attacks, there was an Afghan woman who wants to steal into Europe via Smuggler, but unexpectedly she found an US soldier and a young following avenger boy while she was leaving the house. The avenger lost his family in different regimes and it makes him suffering from life, he lost his grandfather in soviet war, his parents killed in civil war and the most unacceptable for him was that his big brother killed by Us soldier and the media reported that he was Taliban member. These all make him become an Avenge |
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June 17th
In the hills of Belgium in 1815, Napoleon prepares for his engagement with the two military powers rallying to force him off his throne. But can he see the human element in his bid for conquest? That night, with the sound of the rain hitting the fabric of the small tent, he reminisces on what led him to the edge of the battlefield and what his ambitions have cost him. |
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ROMA: The Silent Film
Josh, an aspiring pianist, falls in love with a theater dancer named Roma, but their relationship is challenged by her ex-fiancé Dean, a vigilant womanizer. This modern day silent film is carried by instrumental music of various genres while keeping to the classic look of black and white cinema. |
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Life On Mars
Life On Mars takes a unique perspective as a show-within-a-show. David Mars keeps a daily diary in the form of a screenplay as a coping method for his anxiety. These private accounts become the “realest” piece of work he’s ever produced and this is the very screenplay that gets picked up by Ellie Blue, an up-and-coming literary agent who sees potential in Mars’ writing. As an audience, we experience David’s thought process from two perspectives: on camera as production of “Life On Mars” begins within the series, and behind-the-scenes with David as he struggles to come to terms with the fact his embarrassing life is being reenacted for the world to see. |
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First Anniversary
A divorced couple meet for the first time after parting ways a year ago. They try to discuss their lives after the separation without betraying their mutual lingering feelings toward each other. But there is another reason for this meeting which the two people are both trying to avoid. |
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Sty
The deadbeat Endre tried to earn money as pig sticker. The morning, when an old peasant asked him to kill his fat stock, subverted his life a lot. |
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Family Values
When Dylan comes out to his parents at the Dinner Table, the evening takes an unexpected turn. |
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Blood Art
A young widower receives a mysterious package that cryptically describes how to paint her best masterpiece yet...at a cost. |
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What We Don't Say
Talia embarks on a 12-hour journey from sunset to sunrise. Same bus, same destination, but two very different Talia's. One believes that what happens next is completely in your hands while the other sees that none of it is. |
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I Am The Doorway
For hundreds of years the human race has looked beyond the stars for extra-terrestrial life. Every new discovery creates a dozen more questions...who would have guessed the answers were now among us? Arthur (Greg Patmore) struggles to deal with the side effects of an alien infection he was exposed to during a mission to Venus. Summer intern Richard (Oli Reynolds) begins to suspect all is not as it seems. |
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Kid Sister
When preteen Iris confronts her older sister Diana about bulimia, the results are a far cry from an after-school special. |
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Tragedy
Officer John Lessman follows the visions of Edgar, a homeless man in the city, to save the day but can he save everyone before it's too late? WATCH NOW: https://vimeo.com/127262117 |
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Seamless Love
A single dinner order leads to the downfall of one relationship and the possible beginnings of another. WATCH NOW https://vimeo.com/151197550 |
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Doleo
An old man can not forget his memories of his time in war. He looks back: The young soldier Reichert takes his service at a radio station, far from the combat zone. Pure routine - until he looses contact with the base |
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Shark & Lion
This short film was shot on the Bahamas, Caribbean. The venomous lion fish was introduced by accident into the Caribbean. It populates too much, disturbs the balance of the local marine eco system and causes immense damage on the reefs. One way to protect the reefs is to spear the lion fishes and feed them to sharks. |
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Man and Wife
A married couple of ten years has lost the spark, and the husband seems to be having an affair. Then one day, a suspicious woman asks his wife to meet, and a young and sassy girl in her twenties, Myo-ryung, shows up. Myo-ryung asks the wife if her husband is binge drinking, growing a potbelly, losing hair and getting shorter and uglier. The wife cannot deny that he isn’t so. Then, Myo-ryung introduces herself as the FBI Special agent and drops the news that her husband is an alien. |
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Mystery Of The Chest
The Emperor returns form a long journey. The Vizier greets him with the news that the Queen is not faithful to him and there is someone in her bedroom. The Emperor find this hard to believe, but he still goes to the Queen's room alone. When he approaches her bedroom, he sees his wife hastily locking a large chest. WATCH NOW https://youtu.be/4o_yH6ufL-0 |
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A Perfect Investment
A naive young man receives a gas station as a birthday present from his wealthy father. He feels the weight of responsibility for the first time in his life. The film shows the cruel world of newly rich youth craving for fame. A world governed by particular rules where human values mean less than nothing. |
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Under ice
The movie "Under ice" is about the state to forgive unfaithfulness. The young characters of the film, Lilla and Bence live on the brink of surrealism and reality, in a world, where sensual relationship has top priority. The movie starts with the solitude of christmas, where Bence receives from himself a clay statue portraying a female genital organ as a present. From his point of view the female body is solely the set of different body members, up until he meets Lilla. In the world of sensuality it can be dangerous and unpredictable to see the entire body of a woman. The way that Lilla looks, changes Bence's creative and emotional world, upsetting the pre-established order. |
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Thumbeliam
an everyday man dreams of becoming the ultimate thumb wrestling champion of the world WATCH NOW http://youtu.be/t9dYcINKEf0 |
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Happy Birthday
A man wait some people to celebrate his birthday |
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