Barocco

Trapped in the swirling thoughts of a late night shift, a restaurant worker receives a cryptic phone call, guiding her to a refuge from the noise.

Two different but strangely complementary young women living together are pictured in a fragmented and non-linear narrative about incommunicability and alienation.

A 911 dispatcher helps a lost and surprisingly upbeat woman in a compromising situation and connects with more than just the call.

The age-old battle between man and answering machine wages on as John attempts to record the perfect outgoing message.

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

Ambroise gets bored every night. To kill time, he makes random calls. Sometimes Ambroise finds a lonely woman on the other side of the received.

An enthusiastic androgynous voice leaves a message on 25-year-old Mina's answering machine inviting her to the best party of her life. Mina really doesn't want to go, so she tries to come up with the most outrageous excuse to get rid of the Voice once and for all. However, her mind has a surprise in store for her.

Irene Wagner, the wife of the prominent German scientist Professor Albert Wagner, had been having an affair with Erich Baumann. She does not disclose this to her husband, hoping to preserve his innocence and their "perfect marriage". This fills her with anxiety and guilt. However, Johanna Schultze, Erich's jealous ex-girlfriend, learns about the affair and begins to blackmail Irene, turning Irene's psychological torture into a harsh reality.

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. She urges him to put off thoughts of marriage until his experiments are complete. He invents the telephone, marries and becomes rich and famous, though his happiness is threatened when a rival company sets out to ruin him.

Trapped in a lonely existence, reclusive widower Roy passes the days by cold-calling strangers from the phone book, looking for brief moments of companionship. But when he accidentally calls adult hotline worker Cara, an unlikely friendship is born that will help them both rediscover the joy of life.

A boy's dog has run off and, with the help of unfortunately named marionette Handy, the kid learns to use a telephone to find him.

Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.

Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. During a lonely night shift, a woman calls up and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs him she's taken an overdose of pills; he tries desperately to get help to her, while keeping her on the line. As crucial minutes tick by, Alan learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die.

Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.

Jimmy Stevens, a senior VP at an international energy firm, blows the whistle on his company's deadly and corrupt practices in Latin America. Knowing he will be assassinated for his betrayal, he places an anonymous call securing the services of private detective Frank Turlotte to trail him from a distance.

Bruce is a telephone lineman who accidentally overhears a murder plot. When 911 informs him that there is nothing that they can do about it, he takes matters into his own hands, and gets entangled in a world of sex and mystery.

Blues

A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.

Meeting through an Internet dating website, John and Korey find a unique connection through a series of telephone conversations. Despite never meeting face to face, each person affects change in the other in an unconventional yet touching love story about finding your counterpart in a technologically isolated world.

A cassette tape with messages was found inside a used answering machine. Through these calls, we learn the story of Enrique and María Teresa: a woman waiting for a call from a man who never answers. Ten years later, this short film is based on this completely authentic audio recording.