Sometimes you’re at home with a friend and you tell them that if you don’t leave you’ll be late and the response is a crazy, unexpected and utter frenzy.
Social & External
The people behind it
Hugo Ramos
Hugo
Francisco Lacerda
Franco
Francisco Afonso Lopes
Caller
When Olivia gets deferred from her dream college, she begins to spiral. In an attempt to regain control, she embarks on a social media-fueled rampage against those that stand in the way of her success. But as things escalate, she is forced to confront her darkest impulses in order to get ahead.
A woman reflects under the parapet.
One night Leonardo, a young concierge working in a suburban hotel, receives a visit from a mysterious couple looking for a place to stay. The boy will soon discover that love can hide a dark side.
A visually driven, non-verbal short film exploring female solitude, migration, and inner resilience through surreal imagery and physical performance in contemporary Australia.
Four people walk. One runs. In a house, someone loses their vision. A study on time and the break of the cinematographic wall of "truth".
The story of a girl, after a breakup, removing her makeup and finding herself again in grief. About life, places, being yourself wherever you are, in love, and not losing yourself, moving through things. "Balaclava Quemado is about not ceasing to be yourself no matter what situation you find yourself in; with or without wearing it, it's the strength to keep going, it's a bit of a symbol of taking the freedom that one can and carries within." Daniela.
A poetic and experimental short film by Arin Paul, Let Me Call You, Ritwik Da pays tribute to Ritwik Ghatak, inspired by a poem by director John Abraham. Blending evocative imagery and voice-over, it explores Ghatak's legacy.
A motorist is haunted by a wayfarer he has accidentally wronged.
Explores the quest for understanding of a young dancer in a world that seems to ignore her.
A hen questions the meaning of her life on a farm.
Under the relentless sun, a killer stalks through the mountains, where the innocence of a young couple becomes prey. With no shadows to hide their fate, the hunt is a macabre game in broad daylight, where fear is not hidden in the darkness, but burns with the rawness of the unperturbed noon.
A lonely woman with an overwhelming obsession of masturbation must extricate herself from what consumes her every moment.
In an urban reality seen only in black and white, a boy from a conservatory works alone in the school's abandoned fine arts department. Until the boy is accused of schizophrenia by the institution, for gradually starting to see colors and act outside the norm, because he is an artist.
In a future where humanity has surrendered its ability to dream in exchange for immortality, an outcast finds illusion, nightmarish visions, and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making.
An unfulfilled stay-at-home dad abandons his wife and kids to embark on what he calls “an undefined period of self-exploration.” Lacking the funds for his escape, he persuades his wealthy and perpetually single friend to bankroll a trip to Berlin by promising to get him laid. What starts as a misguided boys trip evolves into an unexpected journey of reckoning and self-discovery.
A man is haunted by the mysterious CHICKENMAN after he chooses not to order a takeaway.
A guy opens up to his significant other while an unseen cameraman directs how his emotions should look.
In a world where everyone is expected to be on point 24/7, life isn’t lived anymore — it’s performed. Always grinding. Always proving. Always “doing fine”. But the mind keeps score. And when it can’t take it anymore… the body hits pause. JEEVA is a social satire on today’s pressure culture — where being human is replaced by being perfect, and panic attacks are just the body’s way of saying: slow down. breathe. exist.
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
A burned-out paramedic tries to survive his last 24 hours on the job while training a new recruit.
An American school teacher in England drives past an abandoned car late one night, unaware that the driver was the victim of a murder. As she comes to terms with the realization, seemingly supernatural events start to affect the gothic manor she lives in with her husband.
An undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a careworker for a seemingly terminal old man, securing a better life for her and her daughter. But a dark discovery threatens to destroy everything she’s strived for and holds dear.
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life – starting with the heart of his young protégé Dan's dearly deceased Meg Halsey.
When an unexpected road rage incident puts his son in critical condition, an enraged father spirals down a dark path of emotional turmoil and vengeance.
Broke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive.
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.
A physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment.
In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to an inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge.
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.
When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.
Kevin Hart - playing a version of himself - is on a death-defying quest to become an action star. And with a little help from John Travolta, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Josh Hartnett - he just might pull it off.
In late 1960s New York City, fed up with monotonous college life and police repression, free-spirited Fritz, an impenitent seducer and unrestrained party-animal, decides to explore the world. And just like that, as he flees NYC, heading to San Francisco, Fritz embarks on an endless adventure of illumination. Immersed in a world surrounded by drugs and sex, Fritz participates in mad orgies, brings about a revolution, incites mass urban riots, and crosses paths with drug-addled Nazi bikers.
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.
