A struggling young man secretly plays a magical trumpet that transports him from his desolate world into a colorful "bliss." When his younger brother discovers his secret, their relationship is put in jeopardy.
A phone call turns an evening at home into a nightmare.
Max goes on a date with a stranger, where he experiences new sensations beyond the limit of reality. Will he leave as the same person he arrived?
A writer reminisces on the fallout between her and her best friend
Deep in the frigid valleys of northern rural Canada, two survivors atop a desolate peak run thin on supplies and hope. The only remaining from their group, they wait naively for help to come. Fighting long days of paranoia and an unidentifiable entity lurking in the darkness of night, their situation grows bleaker by the minute. What follows are the last 24 hours spent on their mountaintop campsite.
A Hamlet-inspired tale of two sisters running their late mother's business. When one sister has a run-in with her (presumed to be dead) mother, chaos ensues.
A young girl living alone in her apartment begins to hear disturbing sounds from her upstairs neighbor, leaving her questioning her own sanity.
A little girl's parents have to go overseas for work, so she is sent to stay with her grandmother for that period. The grandmother only speaks Teochew, which the little girl can neither speak not understand, so the initial generational and linguistic gaps result in friction and misunderstanding, until an accident unexpectedly brings the whole extended family closer together, and the child bonds with both her grandmother and her parents.
With the ghosts of his past back to haunt him in the wake of a mysterious death, Detective Brian Lancaster struggles with his sobriety while searching for the truth surrounding his sister’s fatal drowning as a child.
During a period of self-reflection leading up to the New Year, David develops an unusual disorder and becomes determined to put an end to it.
After suffering a head injury during training, aspiring footballer Jordan traverses his own mind and memory in order to rediscover his passions and fix his broken relationship with his Coach Father.
On a desolate farm, a couple's prayers are answered after a visitor offers them a sinister deal. Blinded by their joy, they struggle to realize that what they once desired may lead to their own unraveling.
After her best friend leaves to Lunar University, Geo has to deal with his absence on Earth when carnival season arrives.
A nuclear family sits in front of the television. The phone rings.
The film follows an introverted 20-year-old girl, Duna Canet, as she leads a seemingly normal life. Yet, at its roots she is trapped and consumed by an eating disorder that refuses to accept. In as little as a day, the struggle unravels to the point where she hits rock bottom and sets out on a path of self-discovery and acceptance.
A young man washes and rinses off his car on his driveway on a cloudy day with thunder being heard. and the man gets struck by lightning
Three separate short stories by Jan Drda from the collection The Dumb Barricade: The Dynamite Watchman, Hatred and Traces.
Three graduate students work tirelessly to solve their professor's final equation, before they meet his grisly fate.
After finding a seemingly ordinary pair of glasses, Michael decides to show them off - unaware of the darkness that could soon consume him and endanger his friends.
After a death in the family, a fragile young man struggles to cling to his fractured reality, which is not at all as it seems.