The Deathroom (2013)

Is Now a Good Time?

A Marvel employee's workday is spent attempting to grant a terminally ill child's wish to see an unreleased Captain America film, leading to dark comedy and commentary on corporate control over art.

Wake Up

A woman is forced to rediscover her humanity in an increasingly digital world.

Paradise Lost?

After discovering that John Milton is buried within London's Barbican grounds, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard reimagined his epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’ as part of Doug Aitken's Station to Station project. The piece uses the architecture and atmosphere of the Barbican to update the story, which is told in three parts.

Desperation

When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.

The Last Song

Ernie Hudson and Angie Kim star in this short film about a customer not wanting to leave a Karaoke Bar. A night without closure.

Shadow

An honest and shy student, Jane, finds herself lost in the world of college dating. When her crush, Allen, doesn't clearly respond to her feelings, she is left vulnerable to the less admirable intentions of his competitive friend, Will.

Skai Blue

Tom meets Simon, a Cameroon refugee on a dating app. They have a short, but passionate relationship and both hope to find a better life, happiness and love. However, Tom realizes that this relationship has a huge impact on his own life and is forced to make a difficult choice...

96 Ways to Say I Love You

The main narrative follows youngsters Al and Olive and their respective journeys towards saying those three words for the first time. However, the story is interspersed with inputs from different couples in evidently very different relationships.

Pulpe Amère

One night, a man enters his maid's room and tries to rape her while a radio soap opera describes the thoughts of a man caught up in a great amorous passion.

List

While waiting at a seaside town with her mother for a relative, a young woman creates a list of things she wants to do during her time there.

Everlasting memories

Abraham, a seventy-year-old pianist, receives an invitation to a tribute in his honor. But he's having trouble remembering things. During a visit from Diana and Iris, Abraham tries to remember his most precious composition before it's too late.

Stains

As Erin packs her old life into boxes, she overhears a violent attack in the apartment above that derails her night.

House of Usher

Convinced that his family’s blood is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hell-bent on destroying his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from extending any further. When her fiancé, Philip Winthrop, arrives at the crumbling family estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless lengths to keep them apart.

Halo: Landfall

Director Neill Blomkamp explores the lives of Marines and ODSTs on a last, desperate mission in a post-invasion Earth – a mission that may secure the salvation, or usher the destruction of the entire galaxy. Edited together as a standalone piece for the first time, these three shorts are the first glimpse at what a live-action Halo could and should look like and a must-see for Halo fans of every stripe.

The Road of Writing

Todri, a patriotic teacher, returns in his homeland to bring the Albanian letters.

Kimchi Fried Dumplings

Carls the eldest of three brothers and is expected to be a role model for the family. He wants to show his family that he made the right choice to move away. However, youngest brother Adam's unexpected hostility reveals the problems with Carls choices.

Fight on a Swedish Beach!!

A western Swedish beach during high summer. A variety of people come together to socialise and enjoy the heat. A family with children, a watercolour artist, a group of upper middle-aged friends and a bunch of middle school adolescents. The situation that arises will be called Fight on a Swedish Beach on Youtube.

Sideral

In Natal, on the Brazilian north coast, the country is preparing to launch its first manned space rocket into space. A couple lives with their two children near the space centre, she is a cleaner and he is a mechanic, but she dreams of other horizons.

The Right Words

Kenza 15 years old and her little brother Mahdi 13 years old regularly humiliate one another on social media in cruel ways. Today, as they travel by bus, Kenza puts her naive and romantic little brother to the test: to profess his love for Jada; a girl that Mahdi loves but that does not know him. Placed under pressure by his sister, Mahdi ends up confessing.

My Grandpa Is Hiding

A grandfather explains to his grandson that he'll have to take care of his flower garden after he dies. There follows a touching and poetic discussion about losing loved ones and on the marks they leave behind.

The Long Goodbye

A short about racism and Islamophobia in the UK.

The Traitor

Tomer and Shmulik are a couple. One evening, during a causal supper, one of them announces he wants to break up. Pain takes over their intimacy and the night takes an unexpected turn.

A Song For Your Mixtape

A short film about a birthday party you weren't invited to.

Killer

Dusty is convinced he has a terrible new ability.

Fear

Mikail had to flee Chechnya for being homosexual. Unexpectedly meeting his old childhood-friend Daud in Germany, Mikal is not only faced with a renewed friendship, but a recurring fear of persecution.

THEATER. Afterword

The film was shot as the final part of the play "Drink the sea, Xanthos" theatre-Studio "NEO" (St. Petersburg 1987-1989). As a result, the performance was changed and the film gained independence. He became an allegory of acting.

Typhoon

An escaped convict on his way to Texas strikes a deal with a young misfit.

X. La mise en croix

Part 10 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play, in which Jesus is nailed to the Cross.

Gabriela

It's the summer after high school graduation and Gabriela, a young undocumented Guatemalan woman, pursues her dream of swimming for an illustrious Country Club swim team. Despite her single-minded determination, Gabriela is continually confronted with her overprotective mother’s ears, limitations on her economic and legal status, and self-judgment. As she questions her self-worth against the structures of contemporary American Southern life, Gabriela embarks on a quest towards personal freedom and self-acceptance.

JA750 Gōki Yukuefumei

1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between two newspaper reporters, one young and the other old, who followed the whereabouts of the distressed aircraft. It is an adaptation of the prize-winning broadcast drama recruited by the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Week in 1958. The original author was Tsuneyuki Mori.

Guiltless

Twenty-one-year-old Juan gets some terrible news from his doctor: he has aggressive lung cancer. His whole life turns upside down as the disease evolves.

Oasis

Ophelia goes to El Oasis, a tavern where men pick up men, looking for her husband. Her suspicions confirmed, she faints and a transgender prostitute unexpectedly helps her.

Nature

Water, earth, air, fire – and two children at the height of summer.

Why do people lie?

Javi and his mother are in front of the hospital with a suitcase for staying there for a few days. She’s just suffered a mild schizophrenia episode, but she feels good and she doesn’t want to go in. Javi wants her to enter the hospital voluntarily. Two people with a common enemy, but with opposing goals. Who will win?

My Pretty Pony

An elderly man, nearing death, gives his young grandson an unusual gift and tells him about the transient nature of time.

About a Father

Sixty-year old Jindřich is waiting for a heart transplant. His wife, in an effort to protect him from a heart attack, has moved with him and their teenage daughter to their cottage in the countryside, so that he would have an absolutely peaceful life. But their son David comes for a holiday and he is not alone. He would like to discuss his life situation with his father but his mother intervenes as she is afraid that it would upset his father. Is, however, the worry about his health the real reason why she is making her children lie to their father?

My Biker 2

Over break, Gentle and Motor grow close—but once school resumes, Motor pulls away, leaving Gentle hurt and their fragile new relationship at risk.