The Timely Demise of Mr. Apocalypse

Camera Threat

Somewhere in the dreary zones of Mumbai's film industry, stuck between star-cult, superstition and the daily gridlock, Camera Threat explores the ambivalent, and sometimes paranoid relationship that this film city has with the moving image itself. Seated on a casting couch, two actors are getting trapped in their impromptu conversations on the unwanted side effects of a world that no longer bothers to tell facts from fiction. An expanded multi-genre film within the constraints of the so-called Masala Formula popularly known from Indian cinema.

InterYouth Festival Vlog

A video-log recorded by an English Literature student and a massive film-lover during "InterYouth Fest" held in Istinye University.

Flux

Samantha is an 18-year-old girl who, in the middle of a move, experiences a flashback of memories and is reunited with her imaginary childhood friend, Flux. Between waves and cardboard boxes, she passes the farewell with herself, with what surrounds her and with the tide.

Biting Elbows' Bad Motherfucker

The protagonist is relentlessly hunted by a squad of black-suited mercenaries across buildings, rooftops, snowy mountains, and a decommissioned airplane, all while trying to recover a strange device. The short film went viral, racking up over 150 million views online, and inspired the 2015 full-length first-person action feature film, Hardcore Henry.

Maxim Commodity Ballet

A kaleidoscopic exploration of found objects that express deeper human emotion.

Un Apprentissage Parfait

Raptus

Confrontation between a conformist and a nonconformist smoker in the grip of a homicidal frenzy

Le Gouffre

Le Gouffre is set in a dystopian dream-interface universe where physical laws and biological instincts are merely software protocols. The film follows a nameless narrator who awakens due to a software glitch within the simulation. After decoding fragments of the source code, the narrator begins to decipher that human nature and truth itself are a prison. As the character explores this digital realm, they journey toward the boundaries of the virtual universe to escape the dream. The film invites the audience to a philosophical inquiry that concludes at the edge of the system, on the brink of "Le Gouffre."

The Forssa Syndrome

An expedition to a peculiar small town where even the swans swim backwards and water in puddles is antimatter.

Synchronicity

A daring physicist travels into the past to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his own fractured reality.

The Body of Stars

A being from the stars becomes trapped in a human body.

A Literal Haunting

A student encounters a supernatural horror while studying.

Carnage

Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

I Am Your Grandma

An autobiographical video diary log recorded by Jillian Mayer for her unborn grandchildren.

Dan Lihves or 'But Deliver Us from Evil'

An unhappy young man becomes confused about reality, guilt, his own identity and love life after he gets to know his next-door neighbor, a seductive femme fatale.

Neon Comet

On the small planet of Hub B a Gaian scientist named Bon awaits a data transfer officer, but is met by his former partner, Lex, who unbeknownst to him is there to steal his life's work for the scientific cult organization, REM. While their love once again blossoms, when the truth about her motives is revealed, the situation becomes fatal.

Something's Askew in Zonine Valley!

In 1957, Natasha Pritchard remotely monitors an alien-infested New Mexico town to get herself off of Death Row.

A Fair Trade

In this unfinished black comedy crime epic, eighth grader Tommy Uris is pushed into a teenage drug dealing business run by his two classmates Frank Newton and Patrick Reynolds after walking in on a drug deal between them. As their business falls apart, so does their trust for each other, and they need to either resolve, or kill each other in the process.

14 Seconds of Indifference (By A Cosmic Deity Watching Me)

Against the backdrop of a dying Tacloban, an underqualified teenager struggles to secure employment in a ruthless city that has no place for him. Worse still, he discovers that a rising artificial intelligence program threatens to steal all the work reserved for man. In his search for meaning for himself and for the city he calls home, he finds out a cosmic entity has been quietly watching him.