Rest Stop

Psychology Counselor

Three disillusioned outcasts meet in a laundromat. A punk who's lost his pills, a freshly-kicked-out-of-home youth, and a girl obsessed with vampires. What could go wrong?

Roma, Stach and Chudy work illegally in the grounds of a declining steelworks. Roma is in the throes of a burning romance and decides to leave the job, seeing his new feelings as an excuse for changing his life. His friends aim to dissuade him. After a long day ay work, they visit his significant other and one of the many versions of the tale of Cain and Abel unfolds.

For several years, Zoe has suffered terrible abuse. She's been locked in a basement like an animal and now she's bleeding out. She should have died... several times. But she doesn't die. Zoe wants to survive. She wants to live. Mostly, Zoe wants to escape the cage her captors have trapped her in.

In 1994, a young family of Bosnian refugees find themselves in a little Dutch village after receiving their residence permit. Absurd situations occur as they attempt to turn this new world into their home.

On the shores of a desolate beach in Cuba, the tide cycle begins, a shark hunter, from the ritual of fishing, experiences the strongest symptoms of his condition and nature.

A teenager's questionable and erratic behavior to free herself from an abusive past causes her to relive the pain of it in Rockaway, Queens, NY.

David, a Jewish resistance fighter, flees for his life as he is being hunted by Nazi soldiers and is saved by a ferocious German Shepherd, who ultimately becomes his savior.

A lonely, socially awkward man meets an outgoing dog owner at a park bench. They make a connection.

A troubled 10-year-old girl confronts her own capacity for evil when her mother forces her to seek the mentorship of a disturbed old man.

Whilst visiting her late mother's gravestone, Emma meets Jon - her half-blood brother, whose existence she's never known of till now...

Bullied by his father to grow up, a teen fights between the love of his step-mother over his father's life.

After witnessing her cousin enveloped in a steamy new romance, distraught teenage Amélie allows herself to dive into her own fantasies, sparking something much more powerful.

Writer Toprak Karasu receives a letter from her mother, whom she does not know, at a time when she is having an artistic crisis. In the letter, he writes that his mother left him a house as an inheritance. Toprak wants to sell the house as soon as possible and pay off his debts, but a sudden encounter completely turns all his life plans upside down.

After rejecting unwanted advances from her husband’s mates, Monica is forced to defend herself against "The Testosterone Club". Fortunately, she's found the perfect recipe for a little revenge.

Herrmann is a leftist Thirty Something, who is still politically active, despite beginning to live the usual life of having a girlfriend and a child. On the way to his weekly political meeting he is kidnapped.

August has to put up with quite a lot. Ever since his parents separated, his father no longer seems to have any time for him. To console him, his Dad gives him a sweet little dog. But his mother refuses to have the animal in her house and before long there are shouting matches on the phone again. August can hear them arguing through his bedroom door – it's something he seems to have become used to. When his mother remains adamant about not having the dog, August packs his bags to move in with his father. But there’s no place for him in his father’s new family either. And so the boy makes up his mind to create a drastic wake-up call. Told from the boy’s perspective, this coming-of-age drama describes the situation for children who are caught in the middle when their parents decide to separate.

In a desolate future, one small town has survived because of a large windmill dam that acts as a fan to keep out pollution. The dam's operator, Pig, works tirelessly to keep the sails spinning and protect the town, despite abuse from classmates and an indifferent public. When a new student joins Pig's class, nothing will be the same again.

A grieving old man attempts to recreate his past in the hope of reliving cherished memories.

A short film about a deaf girl who runs away from home. The story is told entirely without dialogue and features an experimental soundtrack used to provide an impression as to the sounds the girl would feel by way of vibrations.