Zoe's voice is stored in a bottle. Something both ethereal and mechanical is in the air. Farid would like to build a device that will allow him to record this invisible movement. Reality shatters into pieces, voices from the past and the future begin to materialize. Zoya is on her way to the moon. An electrifying image, born from the radiant waves that sweep through the air with the intensity of a storm. Shayannejad's debut film was made by the independent filmmaking group Kamja Film.
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A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
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.
The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. Given two months to live, she throws caution to the wind to pursue her dreams.
Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare.
After moving from their home to an apartment building, a new terror awaits Rini’s family.
As Finn slips back into a groove of mindless parties, sunburn, and hangovers, he let's his life take a mind-numbing vacation. But when he's confronted with death first hand, he takes a new outlook on life, remembering his endless dreams and goals when he was young. A micro-budget, DIY-minded, independent film incorporating elements from mumblecore and found footage cinema.
Lost in a whirlpool of loss and regret, Harry Bradshaw attempts to find innocence.
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing. It is called Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes, outsiders start coming in to Hwang Gung Apartments trying to escape the extreme cold. Before long, the apartment residents are unable to cope with the increasing numbers. Feeling a threat to their very survival, the residents enact a special measure.
Twins Finn and Will, and their best friend John, try to decide what to do with their final week of summer together in their small and conservative American hometown before the trio is separated for good. Each day of their final week together is based on a different coming-of-age film. Part of a career-spanning project for Soren Stancliff, here he attempts to make the perfect debut film, in content and form, flaws and all. Shot for less than $1500. Starring family, and friends, and a hometown.
A man attempts to inform the masses about a conspiracy which proposes that humans evolved from insects.
Lionel, a former college student, is invited to a potluck by a former friend. While there, he feels out of place, until he meets Charles - a dancer feeling similarly uncertain about his life. Throughout the night, Lionel has to decide whether he wants to stay in the past or move forward into a new future.
Marcus, an average young man awakens to find his apartment under quarantine and completely isolated from the outside world. Ominous messages about toxins and evacuations plaster each screen of his various electronic devices, leaving his next door neighbor as the only person he has contact with. Scared, and with few resources, the two try to navigate there way through the indefinite wait - staving off hunger, boredom, and paranoia.
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
The talking staircase in a French apartment building reveals the intimate lives of five of the building's tenants: two bikini-clad young women go swimming together; a muscleman who is pretending to be a painter uses a nude model; Marcy, a 15-year-old, skips school to attend a party with the milkman; and a woman whose husband is out of town showers and applies skin lotion before going to bed.
Abu al-Ma'ati disguies himself as a janitor of a building to escape justice, he meets a dancer and work together in prostitution and drug trade, but events turn when he decides to run for election.