A Ukrainian town has just been occupied by pro-Russian military forces. A bank clerk is going to take credit money from those who won’t give it without a fight.
Viktor Zhdanov
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Alla Sergiyko
Dmytro Oliinyk
Artur Aramyan
A failed everyman begins working through pages and pages of questions. As time starts to elongate, he finds himself tormented and isolated. He battles the unknown ultimately transcending into a heightened reality, discovering a new life existing between multiple worlds, both familiar and otherworldly.
In the midst of national hysteria and incomprehensible personal tragedy, a child is born bearing the scars of other people's sins.
Chan is a Chinese factory worker who lives alone. Every night, she suffers from horrific nightmares involving the woman in the apartment next door, a Japanese office lady.
Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daughter by outfitting their home with trick devices.
A young violin prodigy is manipulated and pushed to her psychological breaking point by the composer she adores.
A nighttime protest downtown has escalated to require police backup for crowd control. As cop partners and a hobbyist photographer arrive late to the scene, an altercation takes place -- but what occurred depends on whose perspective you see.
First timer Aaron goes to buy from a sketchy dealer, when he's invited inside a weird friendship starts to blossom. Until everything begins to spiral out of control.
Franti, an organ grinder of the poor districts of New York, has a daughter, Isola, who sings to his street piano's accompaniment.
What appears to be a typical mother-son day in the park proves to be anything but typical.
This in-world short film takes place in the year 2036 and revolves around Jared Leto’s character, Niander Wallace. In this short, Wallace introduces a new line of “perfected” replicants called the Nexus 9, seeking to get the prohibition on replicants repealed. This no doubt has serious ramifications that will be crucial to the plot of Blade Runner 2049.
After years of playing second fiddle to a rival performer, a woman confronts her rival. Hoping to reason with her enemy, things grow heated and someone commits an act that may cost them their future. That is until there is a knock at the front door.
The drug ballad of a gravely ill border cop's reckless heist of a cartel shipment, sung by a desperate soul destroyed in her wake.
A cellist is murdered during a symphony concert. Shortly afterwards, the manager of the hall is found dead, an apparent suicide. But is it?
Jane Dykstra, a mystery Novelist on a 4 hour drive home, stops at rest area to take a break. She hears a woman being abused in the bathroom, and needs to decide who she really is and what she's willing to do.
A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.
Neo-Berlin, 2079. A dark city held by mega corporations where the only way to enjoy life is by connecting to cyberspace. A team of detectives are investigating a new menace: an army of cyber octopuses that are terrorizing the government.
Deep in the frigid valleys of northern rural Canada, two survivors atop a desolate peak run thin on supplies and hope. The only remaining from their group, they wait naively for help to come. Fighting long days of paranoia and an unidentifiable entity lurking in the darkness of night, their situation grows bleaker by the minute. What follows are the last 24 hours spent on their mountaintop campsite.
'Is it a plaisir' is an experimental short film that explores femininity and the body as a sharp territory, crossed by the tension between desire and imposition. Through symbolic, sound and visual saturation, the film acts from pleasure (plaisir), revealing a liberation that emerges in the midst of excess, where intensity and lightness, dark and light, intertwine, collide and converge.