Outskirts of Moscow. A girl comes to an unfamiliar apartment to look after a dog. After a while, she realizes that the owner of the apartment has disappeared. She finds herself into a series of people that have been taking care of the dog for years in that same apartment, creating a weird community around this strange absence of the owner.
Nach einem Massaker in seinem Heimatdorf versucht ein junger Mann in der Stadt Yatana über die Runden zu kommen. Seinen Lebensunterhalt verdient sich Kid durch illegale Kämpfe. Dabei lässt er sich, sein Gesicht hinter einer Gorilla-Maske verborgen, Nacht für Nacht von bekannteren Gegnern in blutigen Kämpfen zusammenschlagen. Doch selbst nach vielen Jahren sinnt der junge Mann noch immer auf Rache an denen, die ihm alles genommen haben, als er noch ein Kind war.
Return is a methodical construction of the approach of an individual towards an unseen goal, which assumes metaphorical significance. Viola moves toward the camera/viewer, pausing every few steps to ring a bell, at which point he is momentarily thrust back to his starting place, and then advanced again. Finally reaching his destination, he is taken through all of the previous stages in a single instant and returned to the source of his journey.
Polish animator Anna Błaszczyk’s humorous short—a collage of drawing, cut-out, and computer animation—was inspired by Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel Return from the Stars, a time-paradox tale of an astronaut who returns to Earth after many years away.
RETURN tells the story of a retired Green Beret who embarks on a healing journey from Montana to Vietnam. There he retraces his steps, shares his wartime experiences with his son, treats his Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and seeks out the mountain tribespeople he once lived with and fought alongside as a Special Forces officer.
Ella Blake, a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother, embarks upon the creation of a film that becomes the battleground for her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her project take on a life of their own.
Static images of an old country house are combined with voices of the past to evocative effect. Haunting and nostalgic, 'Return' conveys the life that exists in old, abandoned places.
A young man returns home for the weekend to discover the difficulty of juggling friends, parents, magic mushrooms and several thousand chickens.
Eyüp decides to cross mount Ararat looking for his aunt in Yerevan after following a madman's words. His aunt has also been expecting someone to come from behind this mount for many years. Eyüp cannot be sure about the woman he finds behind the blue door, whether it is his aunt or not because they can't understand each other.
A tale of terror. Cathy Reed has been institutionalized most of her life because of Schizophrenia, as a child her parents thought she was possessed by demons and had her exercised by priests. Medical science saw different. Now decades later Cathy is freed, relocated to her own flat and given a chance to be independent. Once alone things are not what they all seem and when her nightmares turn real she questions her state of mind before she is left to face her demons.
Ein im Gefängnis sitzender Vater erhält die überraschende Chance auf Freiheit. Dazu muss er sich allerdings bereiterklären, der Polizei bei ihren Ermittlungen in der Kopenhagener Gang-Szene zu helfen. Die Sehnsucht, endlich seinen Sohn wiederzusehen, ist groß, doch er steht vor einem moralischen Dilemma: Er muss entscheiden, ob er seine Prinzipien über Bord werfen und mit den Behörden zusammenarbeiten soll, um seinen Sohn wieder in die Arme schließen zu können.
A young couple purchase their new home to start a life together, only to find out the elderly couple next door have other plans for them.
The main character of the film is an outstanding physicist who was invited to Armenia from Russia to head a lab. He comes across many troubles in his homeland, but nevertheless finds his true love there.
A horror short with no dialogue (Advised to watch with headphones)
Have you ever felt lonely in a Relationship..., Marriage or Live_In , doesn't matter, when you can't share your feelings with your companion, it is like travelling to an unknown destination with a troublesome partner.
The journey of a professional wrestler who becomes a small town pastor and moonlights as a masked vigilante fighting injustice. While facing crises at home and at the church, the Pastor must evade the police and somehow reconcile his violent secret identity with his calling as a pastor.
Agent Roger will Aren unbedingt für einen Geheimbund schwarzer Amerikaner namens „American Society of Magical Negroes“ gewinnen. Diese Gruppe hat es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, eine Welt zu schaffen, in der schwarze Menschen nicht mehr tagtäglich bedroht werden. Deren Methoden als unkonventionell zu bezeichnen, wäre nicht wirklich weit hergeholt. Denn die Mitglieder der Society haben offenbar magische Fähigkeiten, besitzen allerhand merkwürdige Technologien und verfolgen damit auch noch eher ungewöhnliche Absichten. Denn um das gesteckte Ziel zu erreichen, sollen zunächst die Leben der weißen Mitmenschen verbessert werden, um so das Stresslevel herabzusenken. So richtig kompliziert werden die Dinge für Aren jedoch erst, als er in einem Café Lizzie kennenlernt, sich in sie verliebt und dann während einer seiner Einsätze unerwartet auftaucht. Und der Geheimbund hat nicht vor, diese Liebe zu tolerieren...