Dawn Chorus(2020)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly(fr)

The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.

Incubate(en)

In the near future, imperialist expansion has transcended our debilitated earthly plateau into the outer reaches of the infinite. One solitary traveler ventures into an uncharted celestial body where he encounters mystical alien emissaries that haunt and pursue him. Part science fiction with overtones of cosmic horror, Incubate is an allegorical genre hybrid made from original and secreted materials.

Vivid(en)

Kaleb Allen is plagued by recurring nightmares, where a dark presence watches him every night. Fearing sleep, he's unable to escape these vivid dreams that blur the line between reality and fantasy. As the dreams intensify, Kaleb begins to suspect that they are more than mere nightmares—they might be something far more sinister.

Freedomland(en)

A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

Radha(en)

A young woman on the run from her past finds solace in the arms of a mysterious dancer.

Alone(de)

Maria is a student at the university of Essen, Germany, living and working in a gray, unpleasant, and anonymous environment. While she has little problem finding someone for a one night stand, she rebuffs her lovers in such a rude way that they actually don't know what's going on. But what seems to be a negative attitude at first glance is in fact much worse: Maria is suffering from borderline syndrome, a serious psychotic disease that makes her fail to develop a continuous, reliable personality, from her own perspective as well as from the perspective of those she meets. Then one day, she bumps into Jan, a student who falls in love with her without delay. He's awaiting a hard time when he has to learn how hard it is to stay loyal and faithful to a person who, in her own words, "has a different world inside of her head" and who feels that "there is something inside of me that eats me up."

The Binocle(nl)

A short film based on the short story "De Binocle" by Dutch writer Louis Couperus. It tells the story of a nervous man who on one evening while going to the opera becomes the victim of his own obsessive thoughts.

Sweet Mud(he)

Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, whom the Kibbutz members will to denounce.

Rise, Grind & Die(sv)

All the World Drops Dead(en)

(Un)alarmed(en)

Derek, a young man indebted to his sleep and schoolwork fractures his perception of reality as his association of alarm and anxiety is numbed by the repetition of his stresses.

Archons(en)

Archons is the story of falling-from-grace rock group, Sled Dog, half a decade after the release of their hit single, Backfire. After a chance encounter with rock-legend and life-long idol, Emerson Gilmore, Eric is willing to take one more chance at success, the way Emerson Gilmore did it back in the 70s—out in the Canadian mountains with a guitar and a bag of psychedelic drugs.

The Buildout(en)

A friendship is tested as two women experience something strange in the desert.

Supression(id)

A single-parented girl who has to help her father who had an accident at home

Neandertal(de)

17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the hospital due to a heavy attack, he starts to question his personal and familiar environment and discovers that his parents’ relationship – which he assumed to be happy and sound – is built on lies. Unable to deal with this disappointment, he flees from it and moves in with his older brother and his roommates...

Face to Face(sv)

Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the country for a seminar and her daughter at camp, Jenny moves in with her grandparents, expecting a relaxing few months. But it isn't long before unpleasant memories of her childhood, the sudden appearance of strange apparitions, and a near-rape push this otherwise stable woman to the very edge of sanity.

Spiderhead(en)

A prisoner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary begins to question the purpose of the emotion-controlling drugs he's testing for a pharmaceutical genius.

Beyond the Resonator(en)

The malevolent inter-dimensional machine is still channeling monsters and blowing minds, but this time things get even more complicated with the arrival of mad med student Herbert West and his dreaded reagent!

Starved(en)

Benji is sent spiraling into a storm of self doubt after matching with a girl who is out of his league. A short film about body dysmorphia.

Heel(en)

A professional wrestler struggles to reconcile his onstage and offstage personas.