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Best Self Funded Film 2026

The Dulcinée Dialectic

A love story and a reckoning with what it means to be human in the age of AI.

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Magnet Brain

Is it possible to exploit dead people?

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Patrimonio

A short film about the special bond with horses, masculine tradition, and the legacy of…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

STAY

Two teenagers facing an unplanned pregnancy and poverty fight for a future turning to…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Rivermouth

When there is nothing you can do but quietly surrender to the emptiness

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Blow Me Down

Two dancers decades apart in age collide in a playful, physical duet channeling Popeye,…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Prayer of the Sea

A calm perspective on the universal experience of passing

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Biombo: VAMPIREO

An eccentric investigative unit chases an elusive vampire criminal through San Juan…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Waiting

An old man waits for his son to call

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Chelis

The true tragedy of life is not death itself but that death is already living inside us…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Echoes of The Unseen

A sensorial meditation about the passage from nothingness into form, from darkness into…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Citizen of the World

A beloved chef known for his charming online cooking videos is also a lethal hitman

Best Self Funded Film 2026

A.L:i:C.E.

Dude grieves over the death of his girlfriend but then orders an Android copy of her

Best Self Funded Film 2026

SPUDS

After falling into an abandoned potato cellar an old man is tortured by the voice of his…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Nuno

A young man tries to understand how his destiny is connected with his long-dead uncle's…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Return: Saving Turtles

A Oaxacan family of former sea-turtle–egg poachers turned dedicated protectors

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Caregivers

A reflection on contemporary Brazilian society through the daily lives of four women from…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Dobrina

Passion flares and shadows dance in the desert when a married woman's heart is torn…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

The Heretics

Four couples arrive at a love retreat determined to fix their relationships but a clash…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

¡Ay Marta!

Is love worth risking the friendship you can’t live without?

pastoral fiction

Tadur

In an imaginary world deep in Mount Lebanon, criminals, impoverished farmers, and…

best self funded film 2025

Tóxico Narcisista

A story of love turned cautionary tale, shedding light on the dangers of toxic…

Piblokto

To survive on the remote Arctic Ocean coast of Chukotka all the inhabitants of this…

Notes For a Good Use of the Ruins

Memory is as much about the future as it is the past.

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Best Self Funded Film 2026

The Dulcinée Dialectic

A love story and a reckoning with what it means to be human in the age of AI.

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Magnet Brain

Is it possible to exploit dead people?

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Patrimonio

A short film about the special bond with horses, masculine tradition, and the legacy of…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

STAY

Two teenagers facing an unplanned pregnancy and poverty fight for a future turning to…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Rivermouth

When there is nothing you can do but quietly surrender to the emptiness

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Blow Me Down

Two dancers decades apart in age collide in a playful, physical duet channeling Popeye,…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Prayer of the Sea

A calm perspective on the universal experience of passing

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Biombo: VAMPIREO

An eccentric investigative unit chases an elusive vampire criminal through San Juan…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Waiting

An old man waits for his son to call

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Chelis

The true tragedy of life is not death itself but that death is already living inside us…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Echoes of The Unseen

A sensorial meditation about the passage from nothingness into form, from darkness into…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Citizen of the World

A beloved chef known for his charming online cooking videos is also a lethal hitman

Best Self Funded Film 2026

A.L:i:C.E.

Dude grieves over the death of his girlfriend but then orders an Android copy of her

Best Self Funded Film 2026

SPUDS

After falling into an abandoned potato cellar an old man is tortured by the voice of his…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Nuno

A young man tries to understand how his destiny is connected with his long-dead uncle’s…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Return: Saving Turtles

A Oaxacan family of former sea-turtle–egg poachers turned dedicated protectors

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Caregivers

A reflection on contemporary Brazilian society through the daily lives of four women from…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

Dobrina

Passion flares and shadows dance in the desert when a married woman’s heart is torn…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

The Heretics

Four couples arrive at a love retreat determined to fix their relationships but a clash…

Best Self Funded Film 2026

¡Ay Marta!

Is love worth risking the friendship you can’t live without?

pastoral fiction

Tadur

In an imaginary world deep in Mount Lebanon, criminals, impoverished farmers, and…

best self funded film 2025

Tóxico Narcisista

A story of love turned cautionary tale, shedding light on the dangers of toxic…

Piblokto

To survive on the remote Arctic Ocean coast of Chukotka all the inhabitants of this…

Notes For a Good Use of the Ruins

Memory is as much about the future as it is the past.

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  • 2
  • 3
  • …
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