"Have you ever answered the wrong call—only to change a life? When a middle-aged sanitation worker picks up a ringing helpline phone, she becomes an unexpected lifeline to a young woman in despair, revealing the quiet power of empathy from society’s most overlooked."
Thugs
Marisa is a 65-year-old widow living in a small country town in the sole company of her dog Tico. One day she receives and unexpected visit from Hiroshi, and they will share a day that won't be like any other.
A woman. A phone call. A reality unspoken.
A boy finds comfort in calling his best friend after a tragic accident.
Emma has to inform her Dad's recently confessed lover that he has died but the painful mistakes she makes whilst recording this answerphone message confronts her with a brutal truth about the remorseless forward nature of time. A comedy.
Two friends resort to playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, flipping a coin, and detailed, yet petty analyzation of their friendship to determine which of them will call the mother of their recently deceased best friend, informing her of his demise.
Dávid - a man living alone - one day receives an email. The email is about an unknown but also special software that is offered only for him, for free. Dávid's friend Oszkár tells him that the software is capable of rewriting reality, but also warns him to ignore the email, because it can be dangerous. Dávid doesn't listen to Oszkár, and downloads the software.
When my friend Whitney added me to her ABC’s of Quarantine Film Festival lineup in March, I was excited and then immediately thought about the things I didn’t have: a camera, sound equipment, access to other people, fancy skills or experience “like everyone else”...I wanted to make something but figured I probably couldn’t. Then for some reason on May 20th, I decided to think about what I did have: an idea, my cousin’s house to myself for the day, an iPhone and some editing capabilities, and then I just went for it. I learned some new things like: creative endeavors don’t have to come with ~ideal circumstances~ to be worth your time/effort/attention. My letter was W and the only rule was it had to be under 5 minutes :)
A man wakes up to a dead body in his room… but that’s just the beginning. As reality begins to distort, a mysterious phone call pulls him deeper into a psychological nightmare where nothing is as it seems.
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 young man attempts to discover the source of a mysterious phone call, leading him towards a terrifying discovery as his reality begins to unravel.
Je m'Haine
Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.
During the last years of World War II, Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie are coming of age. They went their separate ways when they graduated from high school in 1944. Benjie joins the Marines as Hermie and Oscy enter college. There, Hermie falls head over heels for another freshman named Julie, and the two old friends deal with a troublesome fraternity president who is in charge of hazings.
Jordan finds herself trapped only with the mysterious instruction from the phone that leads her to shocking revelations as she tries to escape the new reality she finds herself in.
Selamet, who is working at the old central of a company which is on the eve of moving to a big center, tries to make his life similar to a stranger on the phone by discovering his closeness to that person.
2:43 a.m. An empty room. An unexpected calling.
As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Liberty Wallace is indifferent to the atrocities made possible through her business and her CEO husband, Victor. On her way to see her actor lover, Liberty ends up chained to a food cart full of explosives -- all at the insistence of "Joe", a sniper whose young daughter was a victim of gun violence, and who now has Liberty in his sights.
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror when fate draws him to the sleepy West Virginia town of Point Pleasant, whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.