Aleksandra Cwen

In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the woods.

An empty, undefined world. Gabriela (70) is seriously ill. By all means she tries to keep alive, to escape from her own death. In her suppressed and rising fear of death she refuses any moral argument. Gabriela becomes an animal.

On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of migrant workers who are forced to work here under harsh conditions. He has been estranged for two months from his beloved wife when a fatal incident at the main drilling-tower occurs. Piwonka has a recurring dream of his wife where it feels like she's trying to communicate with him, to warn him perhaps, or guide his way.

Whether it's bots in the bloodstream, a silent stranger by the road or even a single, all-consuming thought, death comes in peculiar forms in this wildly creative collection of shorts, offering five gruesome tales of the strange and the unnatural.

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