When someone becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of chronic exhaustion from overthinking, they are forced to confront the boundless labyrinth inside their brain, turning their nights into a perpetual state of insomnia.
Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm.
Life on an offshore oil drilling rig is becoming a burden for one of the riggers, who feels lonely and is frequently visited by a lone black dog that appears from nowhere.
A tired rabbit is stuck in a cycle.
'Resilience', Choi's second-year film at CalArts, is about the ravaged nature finding its strength and gradually recovering alongside the vibrant resurgence of life.
A piñata experiences the same fateful day over and over again, on which it is bought by a girl and finds death at her garden party. Shocked, the piñata tries to break out of this eternal cycle.
Hans suffers from insomnia. But there is help available! A self-appointed specialist guides us through this absurd study of sleep.
A teenager with the ability to enter other people's dreams. When he witnesses a dark spirit taking people's lives in their dreams, he quickly realizes that it's related to the mysterious deaths that are happening in the real world.
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.
A young girl is approaching the end of a cycle, when she gets a visit from a goddess named Norn. Unaware of Norn's intentions, the girl is very excited to create a deep and intimate friendship with her. Until Norn tells her the truth.
In a city exploited by mining, Josué can’t sleep. Surrounded by mountains, fears, and frustrations, he reflects incessantly on the challenges of early adulthood.
A young man trapped in recurring sleep paralysis begins to lose the line between waking reality and hallucination, as something unseen waits for him on the other side.
As Samuel once again struggles with his inability to sleep, his grasp on reality is challenged when the events of a single night lead him to question his own morality .
Filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles his lifelong battle with insomnia in this intimate documentary. The cameras roll as he tries to quiet his overly active mind so he can get a decent night's sleep, capturing the details of what it's like to suffer from a chronic sleep disorder. As he struggles to find balance, his friends and family -- who endure the worst of Berliner's bouts with insomnia -- question whether he really wants to find a cure.
One man's attempts to defeat the tortures of his own mindscape come to a head in the midst of a game of poker, when a mysterious figure interjects the flow of things and everything takes a turn for the worst. As the audience and the protagonist experience the same horrors it leads them to ask the question - who's bluffing? Written and directed by Santino Benedetto, DB was brought to life by him and his fellow filmmaker and life long friend Thomas Dylan Gracey.
A former mob enforcer who is released from prison after serving 22 years for a crime he didn't commit sets out on a path for revenge against the people who wronged him.
Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims. After sparing her life, he unexpectedly acquires a young apprentice. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client.