N.O.R.A. (2021)

Black Sugar

When a group of bored suburban teens experiment with a mysterious new drug, they are thrust into a nightmare world where hallucinations kill.

2036: Nexus Dawn

This in-world short film takes place in the year 2036 and revolves around Jared Leto’s character, Niander Wallace. In this short, Wallace introduces a new line of “perfected” replicants called the Nexus 9, seeking to get the prohibition on replicants repealed. This no doubt has serious ramifications that will be crucial to the plot of Blade Runner 2049.

Sugar Glass Bottle

Near-future Tokyo. Kou, through the help of his high school best friend, finds a surprising way to express his mounting frustration at the insidious forces of commercialism that are forcing out the neighbors he cares most about. Initially inspired by a prank that the writer-director Neo Sora (The Chicken, 2020) had pulled on him in his childhood, a sense of warm nostalgia and cold, material reality intermingle to tell a tale set in the not-so-distant future about disappearing spaces and the forces of policing and gentrification that drills this process forward.

Fractal: Money Man

The dystopia of reality through employees who enter the workplace with coffins, an elevator as a cemetery in the plazas, mechanized white-collar people, people who get money out of their heads, businessmen snarling at each other and a boss who throws up money.

The Cathedral

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Luna 13

A few days after his grandfather's death, young Igor decides to make a documentary about the history of his family in an attempt to understand why his grandfather, Guilhermino, was obsessed with strange facts that had happened in his city. Thus, in 1990, in the interior of the state Rio Grande do Sul, Igor and his father Nilson interview relatives, friends and people involved in the case in an attempt to undo the bad name of his grandfather, but what they find out is a part of the story of the state, unraveling mysteries related to extraterrestrials, failed space programs and a muddled mission of the Cold War.

So What If the Goats Die

Abdellah, a young shepherd living in the mountains, is forced to brave the snow blocking him in order to get food and save this cattle. Once he gets to the village, he faces a supernatural phenomenon.

ERGO: Energetic Ray Global Observatory

ERGO is enabling kids all around the world to turn the Earth into a giant telescope. By placing 'pixels' that detect cosmic rays in classrooms around the world, ERGO is turning the surface of the Earth into a giant, rotating telescope.

Newton's Third Law

On Christmas day, Nico (Max Bourke) discovers he's in a sandwich-initiated time loop - to what extremes will he take this new opportunity?

Fire Craft

In a city of a parallel world. A boy finds a pair of broken scissors from his father's belongings after he passed away. And a boy's mother tells him that his father had been a gardener in the past. Then he figures out the scissors were made by Sasuke, who is an artisan living in a foreign country. The boy travels all the way to a place where Sasuke lives in order to get his scissors fixed.

Breaker

In tomorrow's Tokyo, the technologically-enhanced body of a young mercenary hacker is overrun by a sentient data weapon. Wanted, the parasitic A.I becomes her only ally as she is chased across the city by those seeking to salvage it.

SERTÃO 2138

In a dystopian Earth, a brilliant scientist is finally granted entry to the Space Station. Just when everything is ready for her long-awaited departure and new life, a mysterious mission interrupts her plans.

EI: Emotional Intelligence

A group of scientists create the artificial unit Arthur, which has the ability to feel emotions and is therefore known as an EI (as in “emotional intelligence”) – compared to the more common AI.

Building No. 7

A short by Steven Soderbergh described as “intense sci-fi homage to Godard.”

Custom Order

After a painful breakup, Aaron purchases a life-size doll to serve as a replacement for the companionship he has lost.

Origin

An astronaut from an interstellar colony returns to Earth to determine why they lost contact.

Lifted

When an overconfident teen alien gets behind the controls of a spaceship, he must attempt to abduct a slumbering farmer under the watchful eye of a critical instructor. But abducting humans requires precision and a gentle touch, and within a few missteps it's painfully clear why more humans don't go missing every year.

Swirlee

Tells the story of Mr. Softee, a mutant hybrid with an ice cream cone for a head, who was the victim of the anti-miscarriage drug "Nodroppinum" which changed the pregnant mother's child into whatever food she craved at the time (a parody of the Thyladimide scandal from the 60s.) Softee was the head of an ice cream company, until he was forced out of business by the artificial ice cream mafia, led by Don Tofutti.

Cough

Food shortages during a pandemic force recently widowed George to stray far from home to survive. A simple purchase of rations derails when George stumbles upon a Shopkeeper's secret, placing them in mortal jeopardy.

Tears in the Rain

In a dystopian Los Angeles future, retirement engineer John Kampff hunts down suspected Replicant Andy Smith. As John soon learns, Replicant detection is nearly impossible without specialist equipment.

Jan Kounen - Intégrale courts métrages

All shorts films of director Jan Kounen on DVD.

The Sky of the Others

After several electrical storms, Jacobo begins to lose his sanity in the middle of a confinement.

The Name of the Prime Minister

A psychiatrist is taken to a secret government facility to interview a man convinced Tony Blair is still the Prime Minister.

Irradiation

While being escorted to a mysteriously irradiated site, a scientist experiences strange visions.

Seam

When Yusef discovers his beloved wife Ayana is a Sleeper, a living android bomb left over from a past war, he has only one choice: flee with her to the border of the Machine homeland in the desert, and pray they can make it before time runs out.

8 Minutes

With the end of the world fast approaching, an aging magician realizes one last feat of magic is required of him.

Dope Fiend

Fran is waiting for her partner to join her for therapy. Consumed by her internal voice, the waiting room becomes transformed.

Madrid 2120

Madrid, Spain, 2120. The city has been transformed, stratified: the rich above, near the sky; the poor below, among the garbage. Nitrogreen, a highly unstable liquid capable of generating vegetation instantly, is the most valuable smuggled goods… and a ticket out.

The Impossible Voyage

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

I Am the Doorway

A sci-fi horror film based on the story by Stephen King. A first person POV perspective allows the audience to get inside the head of an astronaut trapped in a spaceship, as a strange virus grows inside him, altering his mind. To save himself he must take drastic action.