Secrets of the Unknown: Dreams and Nightmares (1988)

Cold Trumpet

Chet Baker silently wanders through an Antonioniesque landscape in a Felliniesque state of wonderment as his improvised trumpet solos alternate between earnestly offering the obvious and mocking the artiness of the whole affair.

Plan 9 From Syracuse

On August 15th, 2006, filmmaker Ryan Dacko set out to get a 30-minute meeting with a major Hollywood producer by running on foot from Syracuse, New York to Hollywood, California.

My Lone Father

On the age of 51, a father leaves his family to live as a carpenter. Away from the family and house burdens, he spends his last 15 years living alone. From the point of view of his child, the idealistic father then changes his mind to let go of everything and lives his dream of traveling.

Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious

Can the dream world be a fully functional parallel reality? Joseph Gordon-Levitt and leading scientists take you to the cutting edge of dream research in this documentary produced for Christopher Nolan's "Inception."

The Long Shift

A small town ice hockey team fights through their first season in an upper division. The players' dreams might have changed from childhood but their love for the sport does not fade.

Dreams

A documentary filmmaker sleeps with his camera to film the dreams he has at night.

The Dreamed Films

Belgian filmmaker Eric Pauwels' meditation on dream, travel and film.

Sam & Mattie Make a Zombie Movie

Documentary about the making of ’Spring Break Zombie Massacre.’

The Sea That Thinks

Incredible optical illusions in a story in a story in a story helps the surprised viewer finally to find out that he has been watching himself all along.

Dream States BTS

A documentary about the production of the film project Dream State (2024). It covers interviews with cast and crew and gives a small peek behind the curtain of production.

Grete, la mirada oblicua

Grete Stern decided to be a photographer. Then she also decided to be Argentinian. Those two choices are interwoven in a unique heritage, of paramount importance for modern Argentinian photography, that helps us better understand the world we live in and the worlds that live inside us.

It Was Hot That Day: A Jandiman Story

Enduring 28 days of relentless construction labor, Frank struggles to prep a house for painting amidst Phoenix's scorching pandemic summer.

Reflections of Nature

Reflections of Nature is an experimental short film, touching on the relationship man has with mother nature, and how they coexist in this ever changing modern world.

Are You Awake?

After seeking transcendence through shamanic rituals, Ana’s life is transformed overnight by an unexpected turn toward faith.

Sometimes I See You

An encounter from night till morning.

DayDream

A short doco following the mundane flow of Melburnians as they go about their day, recounting their most recent dream.

When the Road Ends

Growing up in poverty as a child, Dylan dreamt of travelling the world on a motorcycle. Many years later he broke the shackles of a normal life and took to the road. After journeying 200,000km across four continents, the road from Panama to Colombia comes to an end, swallowed up by an impenetrable jungle. Dylan has no choice but to take to the sea, building a raft powered by his motorcycle engine in the hope of reaching Colombia's road network 700km away. He must brave strong ocean currents and storm batterings in his journey from Central to South America.—Journeyman Pictures

Dream of Storks

Based on her own experience, which she extends through the testimonies of other infertile people, director Élodie Lélu shows how Medically Assisted Procreation modifies the relationship to the body and to the imaginary.

Dreams

Four close friends with big dreams who live together in the slums struggle to overcome their lowly circumstances, and realise that the journey to greatness is one that must be bravely fought for.

Call The Sandman

Set in a boring and bureaucratic version of NYC, Izumi and Alex go about their mundane existences while quietly refusing to give into mandates of the new dystopian society – namely undergoing a surgical treatment that renders the brain incapable of dreaming.

The Ringing Bell

Judah is a young man with a condition - he dreams while he's still awake. His imagination makes it difficult for him to process the loss of an important person in his life, so when his cousin contacts him with a ridiculous scheme to get at the riches of their eccentric Uncle Airmid who has disappeared, Judah agrees to go along with it.

Your Call Is Being Forwarded

How often are you so busy chasing your dreams that you don’t realize there’s another call waiting? Living in a fast-paced rhythm, Asa and Mita are focused on chasing ambitions, working, and meeting endless expectations. Until one day, they start to question— is this really what they’re looking for?

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Dream Stalker

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Endless

A lonesome man at the threshold of death finds himself trapped in a place called the Endless.

Be With Me

Screenwriter Kyung-ju and private academy instructor Minjae have been married for 5 years. One day, one plate in a pair goes missing, and Kyung-ju thinks Minjae is to blame. But when Kyung-ju asks if he’s broken the plate and thrown it away, Minjae argues there was only one to start with.

The Woman Who Dreamed

Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband. He is a barrister in the middle of an important murder trial and his temper becomes frayed with Anna's seeming indifference and involvement and preoccupation with her dream world.

Sleepyhead

Following a one-night stand, a young insomniac wakes up in a luxurious Manhattan apartment where things are not what they seem. Something about his host is off. When she reveals that they are not alone, the red flags escalate into a waking nightmare.

Caroline and the Magic Potion

Caroline dreams of a life filled with adventure. Then one day, while living with her healer Granny and troublesome cat Mus, Caroline gets her chance. While looking through her granny's healing potions, Caroline stumbles across a magic formula that will make her fly. Jumping with excitement, Caroline turns an ordinary umbrella into her own personal flying broomstick. But magic isn't always used for good and when the evil leader of a manufacturing company finds out about the magic potion, she kidnaps Caroline's Granny in order to steal the recipe. When Caroline finds out, she jumps into action and starts off on the adventure of her lifetime to rescue her Granny.

Nyctophobia

As Liz struggles with nyctophobia (fear of the dark), a form of anxiety disorder that causes sleeping issues, she desperately tries to fall asleep by entering her “inner world” where she can access her happy childhood memories. However, she ultimately becomes trapped in a time loop of sorts in her “lucid dream” world and encounters her nightmare, Dark Figure, who appears in various forms and shapes as a clown. The time loop pushes her deeper into her lucid dream world, forcing her to reach her subconscious world where she meets her worst nightmare, the original form of Dark Figure.

Moradora

A young woman travels through her psyche in order to find who murdered her lover, Juan.

Nick's Thanksgiving Fest

Two segments (“Thanksgiving Nightmare” and “Thanksgiving Dreams”) and several mini segments explore the traditions, fun, and excitement of the holiday of Thanksgiving.

Endorphine

Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an underground parking lot. And Simone, a sixty-year-old physicist, is giving a conference on the nature of time. The three Simones' lives are intertwined in a labyrinthine meta-world where timeframes overlap, characters multiply, and storylines repeat and expand. But, for all its shuttling forward and back through time, ENDORPHINE remains grounded in the Simones' inner lives — it's an artistic examination of scientific phenomena that also poignantly explores how people deal with trauma.

The Buriti Flower

Through her child’s eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest. Tirelessly persecuted, but guided by their ancestral rites, their love of nature and their fight to preserve their freedom, the Krahô never stop inventing new forms of resistance.

Pueto Pa' Mi

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27

Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?