DES APEGO

5 Telephone Conversations(en)

Meeting through an Internet dating website, John and Korey find a unique connection through a series of telephone conversations. Despite never meeting face to face, each person affects change in the other in an unconventional yet touching love story about finding your counterpart in a technologically isolated world.

Ni una Sola Palabra de Amor(es)

Apego(pt)

Alyssa suffers from problems related to friendships and people and sees in Dani, her best friend, a social outlet where things "make sense". In this silent short, we follow the story of a young woman who doesn't know herself, dealing with the non-reciprocity of her obsession and the loneliness that comes from her dependence.

Bedfellows(en)

When a woman is being called in the middle of the night, she finds out that it's not her husband laying next to her.

Trapped(en)

When their daughter is abducted by experienced kidnappers, the Jennings turn the tables on their seemingly fool-proof plan.

Blues(de)

Die Anruferin(de)

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

The Caller(en)

Jimmy Stevens, a senior VP at an international energy firm, blows the whistle on his company's deadly and corrupt practices in Latin America. Knowing he will be assassinated for his betrayal, he places an anonymous call securing the services of private detective Frank Turlotte to trail him from a distance.

Here Come the Huggetts(en)

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.

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.

This Is John(en)

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

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.

Over the Wire(en)

Bruce is a telephone lineman who accidentally overhears a murder plot. When 911 informs him that there is nothing that they can do about it, he takes matters into his own hands, and gets entangled in a world of sex and mystery.

Hold Back the Dawn(en)

Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.

The Slender Thread(en)

Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die. Can Alan get the cavalry to save her in time before it's too late?

Epeidi(el)

An enthusiastic androgynous voice leaves a message on 25-year-old Mina's answering machine inviting her to the best party of her life. Mina really doesn't want to go, so she tries to come up with the most outrageous excuse to get rid of the Voice once and for all. However, her mind has a surprise in store for her.

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell(en)

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.

Adventure in Telezonia(en)

A boy's dog has run off and, with the help of unfortunately named marionette Handy, the kid learns to use a telephone to find him.

La nuit je m'ennuie(fr)

Ambroise gets bored every night. To kill time, he makes random calls. Sometimes Ambroise finds a lonely woman on the other side of the received.

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.