When the Groland teams take on the concept of Christmas, it's a safe bet that there will be dark humor under the tree and tasty sketches as the main course.
Kaveh is an LGBT sculptor. He lives in Iran and lives in isolation because of his sexual orientation. He has a lover named Farhad. Their relationship is not very good. It is Kaveh who is not happy with this relationship, he lives in his workshop because of the repression of LGBTs in Iran. He is making a statue when he suddenly realizes that this statue is talking to him. The words of the statue are not clear and are more like chatter. He breaks up his relationship with Farhad like his previous relationships, because something more than sex requires a relationship. He enjoys being alone more, but now he realizes that Farhad has destroyed the only statue they made together. The whispering sound of the statue increases and every moment Kaveh's mental state is more disturbed, to the point that he works day and night to build that statue. The statue is completed as if the statue is the lost lover of Kaveh. By completing the statue of Kaveh, he becomes a statue.
Gillian Holroyd, a modern-day witch, becomes smitten with her handsome upstairs neighbor, Shep Henderson. Using her magical powers, she casts a love spell on him, only to face unexpected complications when genuine feelings emerge, threatening her supernatural abilities.
A silent film like you've never seen! When Kitty's husband goes hunting, she finds an escaped ape is hunting her - with love on his mind!
Drew's dad owns a dojo. She's a pretty good boxer... her boyfriend, Freddie, isn't so the two sneak a practice in after hours. Drew's a tough girl but tonight she broke down into a million pieces. She became the punching bag... to thin air? Distraught she runs away and drops her keys in the process. Freddie picks them up and hides them away... she has the car started and is begging Freddie to jump ship with her. Freddie doesn't disobey - he runs after but feels goosebumps at the door. There's something there and Freddie's gonna kick its ass someway, somehow.
Y un jamón
"If today is yesterday’s tomorrow and tomorrow brings today’s ideas to pass, who knows what tomorrow might bring!"
A creepy Christmas decoration creates a nightmare for a young woman house-sitting alone.
A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.
Presenter and comic Jacob Burley hosts Bear Hunt; a stand-up show in which he explores the existence and extinction of the brown bear in the British Isles.
A famous stand-up comedian debates on whether telling or not a polemic joke he just wrote. His whole night changes when he realizes that he has lost the ability to hear laughter...
During WWII's crucial Battle of the Scheldt, the lives of a glider pilot, a Nazi soldier and a reluctant Resistance recruit tragically intersect.
A man is on the run, but who or what is he running away from?
Comedian and NY Times best-selling author, Charlie Berens, brings his brand of Midwest Nice to a new hour full of stories about growing up one of 12 children, sneaking a beer into church, gambling with his grandmother, and why his dad’s love for the Green Bay Packers was key to a happy childhood…. oh, and how his ADHD helped him understand A.I.
A tormented young woman haunted by a recurring dream is catapulted into a peculiar and deviant world where she is confronted by the duality of her existence.
Amidst cityscapes, an experimental short film unravels a woman's exploration of inner pain.
A man is overcome with anxiety after it turns tuesday and he is still wearing monday's socks.
On the stormy night of July 5th, 1995, Trick Stuart works the graveyard shift with his plus-sized pal Meathead at the Delta Kream, a 24HR fast food joint. As they practice their brass band routine, a very unexpected visitor arrives.
TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.
Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because the delightful Lucy has no short-term memory, so Henry must woo her day after day until he finally sweeps her off her feet.