A Search Through Nine Lifetimes

The Ambulance Man(en)

The Ambulance Man is a story about a paramedic who faces a difficult time at home, as he lives with an abusive partner.

Nur die Sehnsucht bleibt(de)

Early short film by Wolfgang Büld

Изгой(ru)

This Sporting House(en)

Three lovely girls are abducted and forced to work in a Manhattan brothel.

Tin Dancing Shoes(en)

A young soldier seeks to impress his love at the local village dance before he is mobilised for war. But the waltz is not the only thing that Stanley has to learn.

De Civitate Rei(it)

Costante dies and leaves his wife Torella his computer discovery. Torella entrusts the disk to her husband’s friend Gervasio, a lazy man scorned by his family. Twenty years later, Torella tries to get back the disk but Gervasio, who has become rich thanks to the discovery, agrees to go to court over it and comes away the winner. He therefore summons divine misfortune: he loses his third son, suffocated by wealth; kills his wife in a blind rage; and is executed by his first-born son who, after a violent panic attack and reckoning with his conscience, chooses life.

If I Die in America(en)

According to Muslim practice, burial ought to occur within 24 hours of death — so after Manny’s immigrant husband, Sameer, passes away in an accident, he is confronted by a representative of Sameer’s family urging him to sign the paperwork needed to ship the body back to Kuwait. Manny initially refuses, clinging to his rights as Sameer's husband, while knowing that with every passing hour, Sameer's family grows more infuriated. After an emotional climax, spurred on by the family’s homophobic claim that Manny and Sameer’s marriage was merely a green-card arrangement, Manny comes to realize that his objections won't change the fact that his husband died — try as he might, he cannot delay grief.

Il Mosè di Michelangelo(it)

Moses searches for history into palletes.

Columbarium(en)

Faced with their grandmother's dying wish, two brothers are tasked with stealing her dead dogs' ashes from her ex-husband, their grandfather, on his 80th birthday. This is dysfunctional even for them.

2 Player Games(en)

What would you do if you could see your future on-screen from a click of a button? This is what happens to Purdy and Joleen on their first date. Will this spark the romance or an uproar?

Home(en)

Lewis starts to recognise himself in other people. Having reflected on his past, he attempts to affect his future.

Packaged(en)

After being caught stealing from the till at a nightclub, Jack agrees to deliver a package to the club's gangland owner.

Peggy(en)

It's Stacey's first day of her new job working as a PA for experienced actress Peggy. How will her first day go working with the film diva?

Stuart(en)

An episodic short that details the heartbreak of nine individuals

Brotherly(en)

Based on a true story of two brothers in 1970's Ohio. It tells of their abandonment by their alcoholic parents and how the brothers turned to each other for support.

Womack(en)

A vicious crime leaves a Brooklyn man wrestling with his conscience in this short film.

The Fir Tree(da)

The story of a Christmas tree is told through the 'voice' of the tree itself. The tree has big ambitions, doing everything it can to grow so tall that it reaches the sky. Featuring extraordinary photography, the film follows the adventures of its life from sapling to maturity. One December day, everything changes when a little boy falls in love with the fir tree.

The Postcard(fr)

The postcard obviously begins with a map. Posted in the Caribbean, it is addressed by a father to his son. We quickly understand that the mother and her child are preparing to leave for the funeral mass of the father in question. Confident in his father's life and good health, the boy refuses to believe that the coffin is occupied and, indifferent to the solemn atmosphere of the moment, he worries about a young woman standing apart from the procession.