Eden Hotel(2018)

La trappola della mente(it)

One Deadly Summer(fr)

In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?

The Road(en)

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones and, when the snow falls, it is gray. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.

Second Chance(en)

A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.

Ava in the End(en)

A woman's accidental death quickly leads to her waiting for the next life to begin.

The Red House(en)

An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.

A Woman's Face(en)

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Sorcerer(en)

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

Astral City: A Spiritual Journey(pt)

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting

Ragmork(en)

Viktor Graves, a troubled young man who isolates himself in rural Ohio, survives an attack by a feral man. Soon after, Viktor sees and hears inexplicable terrors surrounding him at every moment, shredding his sanity and leaving him to wonder...what is real and what is madness?

Hanging by a Thread(en)

A group of old friends on an outing re-live various traumas and tragedies via flashback whilst trapped high above a ravine in a disabled cable-car.

Cruel Hands(en)

Maria and her son Dai flee an abusive husband, hiding on an abandoned farm during bushfires. As emergency services search for the missing family, Dai uncovers sinister secrets about the farm.

Hide and Seek(no)

Two girls' metaphorical journey through stages of womanhood. The metaphor being a game of hide and seek in an abandoned house

Psyche(en)

Trapped in limbo during a near-death experience, Mara and a computer form an alliance to figure out the meaning of life. Together, they navigate through a dystopian world deciphering cryptic clues laid out before them. Mara embarks on a profound quest of self-discovery and redemption. Confronting her deepest fears by facing the trauma in her life, her journey becomes a poignant exploration of human vulnerability. "Psyche" explores the philosophical interplay between mental health and artificial intelligence.

Outward Bound(en)

A group of strangers find themselves aboard an unmanned ship, surrounded by fog and uncertain of their destination. As they attempt to make sense of their situation, the group of passengers discover a commonality that changes their perception of the nature of their journey. The film was later remade, with some changes, as Between Two Worlds (1944).

Groupers(en)

A grad student kidnaps two homophobic high-school bullies to use as her subjects in an experiment performed at the bottom of an empty swimming pool.

Purgatorium(en)

After his death, a young man stuck in purgatory attempts to cope with the afterlife.

No Exit(en)

The Valet (Manuel Rosón) enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin (Morgan Sterne) in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano (Viveca Lindfors) and Estelle Rigault (Rita Gam), are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realising that they are in hell, the trio expects to be tortured; however, no torturer is forthcoming. While waiting, they strike up a conversation and discuss each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories. Adaptation of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre.

No Exit(fr)

The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they're there. When the horrible truth dawns upon them, they carp and snipe at one another, blaming everyone but themselves for their dismal fate.

The Waiting Room, or Eggs in Purgatory(en)

In a waiting room in the space between the living and the beyond, an unlikely pair sits impatiently for their final reckoning.