Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by the sexually repressed Sister Jeanne.
An attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average Joe who can conjure up dreams that will improve his customer's lives. This frame story serves as a link between several avant-garde sequences created by leading visual artists of their day, most of whom were emigres to the US during WWII.
An "underground" cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his artwork.
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.
Ulises, who suffers from a marked psychomotor disorder, is cared for by his brother. One day he leaves the family home and decides to bury himself alive. His brother, desperate, finds him and convinces him to return, but he no longer knows what to do to protect him. One morning, a peddler knocks on the door and they invite him to spend the night at home. The next day Ulises decides to go with him. After traveling for a while, he offers his heart to the vendor.
Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also brings his young aspiring actress fiancee who struggles with the isolation. When home he starts having memories of his childhood many involving his beautiful twin sister and his older brother. These memories awaken long-buried secrets from the family's past.
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…
An outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.
A brutal assault changes Marieke's life. She leaves her familiar city rhythms for the solitude of a isolated house in the countryside. Her irrational fears on the frozen farm are a constant struggle. As spring's orchestra begins, her curiosity for new things that cover the cold rot of winter pull her out of the suffocating interior of her mind. Slowly she accepts the help of John, her neighbour.
Damián, a dowser and family man suffocated by debt, receives an assignment to find water that becomes his last chance to keep his family afloat. On this trip, his six-year-old son Sergio accompanies him by surprise, who challenges him, assuring that he knows where the water is. This search for the occult, almost magical, becomes the fight between the two that finally reveals the death of their daughter. When the water gushes out from the subsoil, flooding everything, father and daughter reunite.
We follow the lives of three women and a young man who are sexually liberated and treat monogamy lightly. When the coronavirus pandemic begins, the protagonists are faced with the opportunity of setting their lives straight.
A woman is forced to continue working while one of her colleagues lies unconscious on the floor due to the long, hot work days. This fact causes insomnia problems and the suspicion that something is happening at night.
A prisoner is locked away in a lonely prison cell as part of a state-of-the-art program for prisoners all over the nation, operated by the notorious Doctor Money because of a recent deadly virus spreading throughout the world. While locked away, the prisoner uses an audio messaging system to communicate with others outside the prison. Those who communicate with him are people such as a long time friend Salvadore, a pastry shop owner Charlotte, a personal “Happy Buddy” with no name, and Doctor Money himself. The prisoner must attempt to keep his own sanity while trying to survive the harsh world of “Presentable Liberty”.
A failed filmmaker tries to make peace with his conscience
A young writer finds herself promoting her new book in a televised interview, but things are not what they seem when the interviewer starts to challenge her.
A socially awkward, neurodivergent youth struggles to adapt at a social gathering that quickly takes a turn into the uncanny and surreal.