Desperately Seeking Signal(2015)

Insomnia(en)

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

Between Notes(en)

Trapped in the swirling thoughts of a late night shift, a restaurant worker receives a cryptic phone call, guiding her to a refuge from the noise.

Caché(fr)

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.

2:43(en)

2:43 a.m. An empty room. An unexpected calling.

Le réfrigérateur(fr)

Two different but strangely complementary young women living together are pictured in a fragmented and non-linear narrative about incommunicability and alienation.

No Way to Treat a Lady(en)

Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.

Telefonen ringer(da)

Midnight Confession(en)

West Berlin, 1989. Manny Jumpcannon prowls his dingy apartment, phoning various degenerates from his past. He's hoping for some uncertain vindication but the ensuing conversations only reveal his own sordid history of deceit.

Sundae Cafe(en)

one random afternoon, Ruth and I went to Area 2

Call Me Dad(id)

Little Intan was used as collateral for a debt by her mother, who was forced to become a migrant worker and leave her behind. But from that moment, her life took a turn. Dedi, the debt collector — a stranger who initially just came to collect — ended up becoming an important figure in Intan’s life. Together with Tatang, they grew into an unusual kind of “family.”

Handphone(ko)

A talent manager loses his handphone which contains a scandalous video which could destroy his career. He is then contacted by a mysterious caller who has found the phone and blackmails him into committing a series of crimes.

This Is John(en)

The age-old battle between man and answering machine wages on as John attempts to record the perfect outgoing message.

History of the Occult(es)

During the last broadcast of 60 Minutes Before Midnight, the most watched journalistic program on television, Adrián Marcato could expose a conspiracy and link the government to a obscure secret society.

Bug(en)

In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.

Cellular(en)

A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.

Missed Calls(en)

A teenager goes through his local park listening to voicemails his ex-girlfriend.

Liberty Stands Still(en)

As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Liberty Wallace is indifferent to the atrocities made possible through her business and her CEO husband, Victor. On her way to see her actor lover, Liberty ends up chained to a food cart full of explosives -- all at the insistence of "Joe", a sniper whose young daughter was a victim of gun violence, and who now has Liberty in his sights.

2-Way Street(pt)

In this short film made of a single sequence shot, a man drives through the city streets, talking on the phone while trying to find a way to move forward, but the past is a restless passenger.

Blues(de)

Cecile on the Phone(en)

Cecile wants answers, but, actually, she doesn't. After her ex-boyfriend's return to New York triggers overwhelming feelings of doubt and confusion, she embarks on a series of telephone conversations, all of which ultimately only distract her from the one conversation she really needs to have.