A woman begins filming her husband only for him to start acting strange on her phone camera - whilst remaining utterly still in real life.
Love begins to grow between two ninjas from opposing factions. In this forbidden love, the Kunoichi who crossed borders is being pursued by the enemy. The only one who can protect her is another Kunoichi. Here a wager between love and death is about to take place. A Kyoto non-verbal action movie.
After the death of their abusive father, two estranged twin brothers must reunite and sell off his property.
A woman faces the return of her past in this modern adaptation of the Jane Austen novel Persuasion.
This short film, done by The American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, shows the historical legend of the three men - two drums and a fife player - forever remembered as "The Spirit of '76."
The director's mother's last wish was to be buried as a Muslim in Omer, her Jewish hometown, where she lived for 20 years. During the process of separation from the mother, the film reveals the family intimacy, secrets, and dilemmas, raises serious questions about women's identity, nationality, and the meaning of home.
The Pretty Cure travel back to the Edo period to protect the Heart Tree from Dr. Sabark! What is the fate of Dark Precure and the Pretty Cure fighting the Desert Apostles in the town of Edo? Everyone's energetic heart flowers call a miracle to PreCure!
Three women travel to a distant place to do welfare work. They assist, listen, stay with the unprotected. An old hospital in ruins accommodates them. The imposed group life gets more complex as they start to know each other. The relationship with the others, the community, is also difficult. But, as days go by, they will start to melt into that human landscape surrounding them. To be part of the mystery of otherness.
The Pavilion on the Water is a cinematic journey into the world of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa and his passion for Japanese culture. Japan, to him, was an inspirational universe but also the place where he eventually died in 1978, at the height of his career, while retracing the steps of wandering poet Matsuo Bashō. Through the words of his son, some of his collaborators and a Japanese philosopher, the documentary unfolds and quests after the sense of beauty. A nostalgic feeling permeates the whole film for that rare event which is the birth of an artist. Although he passed away, he left behind a work that, still to this day, delights and amuses.
Helen suffers from a rare fear of chalk. One day she feels encroached by several chalk figures in Helsinki and decides to confront her fear. In the Amos Rex museum, she discovers the works of Keith Haring in a catalogue and adapts his style to her needs for catharsis.
One night a year, a museum opens it's doors to exhibit a collection of cursed artifacts... But something hideous is roaming these halls, feasting on the flesh of the innocent. A cannibalistic horror is alive! The hunger is spreading, and the only escape is through the hordes of the damned.
The Odyssey of the Lone Wolf looks at the current topic of the return of a predator from the perspective of European wolf research. To this day, it remains a mystery to scientists why individual young wolves travel incredible distances of more than 1000 kilometers in search of new territory.
A charming Indoraptor figure wants a Dr Pepper from a mini fridge and goes through a series of hurdles in order to drink it.
A young man shares his fantasies with a young girl who is already on the threshold of disillusion. Will she respond to him?
A young man is kidnapped by a local strongman with the intention of forcing him to marry his daughter to secure a family alliance.
At Heathrow Airport, a man is razored to death in a toilet cubicle. A young woman, Peggy Foster, is concerned about the disappearance of Michael, her photographer boyfriend, who has been in Vietnam for months. In order to pay the rent, she reluctantly sub-lets her garret flat to a man called John Kirk Lawford. The new tenant wears sunglasses indoors and acts suspiciously. Peggy is lured to an abandoned airfield by a call from Michael but is shot at by a sniper. Back at her apartment block she is shocked to find that a man has apparently committed suicide by jumping from her balcony. While the police question Peggy, a stranger turns up and announces himself as John Kirk Lawford! Shirley, secretary to Peggy's lascivious publisher, is killed by a black-gloved intruder and the mystery deepens...
Ever wondered how secure your home is? Are you curious how high security locks can be opened in mere seconds? Are you interested in locks? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, this DVD is for you. The close-up videography in Lock Picking for the New Millenium is superb and it's combined with in depth instruction from a master locksmith with many years of real world experience. This is a Must See DVD for any lock enthusiast, locksmith student or lock picking hobbyist.
A small-time drug trafficker attempts to rescue a young girl who has been kidnapped by a zealous preacher while battling a manipulative Cicada-like entity that preys on the desperation of his impoverished Appalachian town.
The most famous of Indonesian ghosts, the Kuntil Anak, tells the story of Raesita, the batik artist, whose heavy grief after the death of her husband draws the ghost to her. They seduce each other into a deadly dream world. Raesita's own desire for oblivion moulds perfectly to the Kuntil Anak's desire to save her from the pain of life. But it is Raesita's unborn child, and its desire to live, that the Kuntil Anak has not counted upon.
After making a psychologically compromising decision, a young woman faces a vividly strange reality.
Shortly after her last birthday, 90-year-old Stella Flanders begins seeing her late husband. In her increasing madness, she tells her unborn grandchildren the darkest and most beautiful secrets of her life on the island.
The small Town Grover's Bend is in for trouble once again as a misfit ship of Crites crash lands into a area strip mall causing havoc and death to patrons through the town.
As Alex struggles with disturbing hallucinations, his wife Vera tries to help, until they both experience their own profound revelations.
Basil is an eight year old kid who gets lost exploring a department store while his mother is distracted. Playing among the clothing racks, Basil uses his imagination and begins a fantastic and frightening adventure, of wich he may never be able to scape.
"Tarantella" was an early Super 8 short film directed by Christopher Nolan with his childhood friend Roko Belic. It was made in 1989 while Nolan was studying at University College London. The film aired on "Image Union," a PBS programme in Chicago. It is about the suffering of a young man while he has nightmare about spiders and demons.
This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.
Bernie Davis, a Christmas tree salesman, has three trees left to sell on Christmas Eve. As the night progresses, his anxiety (and alcohol) leads him to take unconventional measures to ensure that his lot is sold and his soul is safe.
Dylan's New Nightmare acts as an unofficial sequel to Wes Craven's: A New Nightmare, one of the most unique and high concept installments to the Nightmare on Elm Street Franchise. This short film picks up 25 years after the events of New Nightmare and follows Dylan Porter (Miko Hughes), the young son of Heather Langenkamp, now a grown man trying to make his way in the world his parents raised him in-Hollywood. Little does he know that the evil entity known as Freddy Krueger is back, and eager to once again break into our world through the son of his favorite victim.
Masked thugs torture an innocent woman in increasingly brutal ways.
A young girl is playing on some waste ground when she finds a pencil with a face. Whatever she draws with the pencil becomes real. Just an ordinary day.
A woman in a traffic jam desperately tries to help another woman she sees in the back of a van hold held by a hand that appears from the dark background of the vehicle.
A young man is forced to eat constantly because of a strange condition that causes deformations on his body.
Following the outbreak of an aggressive virus, a young woman awakes in a hospital bed. As the horrifying events that led her there are revealed, it becomes clear that the cure is just the beginning. This short film is a prequel for the feature film, The Third Wave, which was written at the Binger FilmLab 2012. The project also won the Best Story Pitch award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, June 2012.