Michael is an alcoholic. He abuses his wife, barely tolerating his kid. He enslaved them in paranoia, and through alcoholism delivered them into destitution. The trauma escalates when he takes thugs home, and must answer the consequences.
Shocking Shorts 2003
In the wake of a traumatic incident at a funeral, an aging widow is faced with a bizarre, impossible choice.
Helen, an introvert, attempts to spice up her sex life with her partner Jeff by sending nudes while she waits for the subway home. Her simultaneous encounter with a clown catapults her night in a direction she never saw coming. What enfolds is a bizarre commute from hell. Or is it?
Dulce Susurro
Diane is a young dancer whose quiet life is disrupted by the presence of a mysterious and unsettling gardener. As strange and sinister events unfold, Diane faces growing fear and uncertainty in a world that feels increasingly threatening. “The Butterfly Dance” is a psychological short film centered on tension, fear, and the unknown.
It's just a plain brown package, but everyone wants it. A classic MacGuffin in an existential Noir about role, identity, and desire.
A young phone sex operator named Al's career takes a strange turn as her more unpleasant clients begin dying under mysterious circumstances after speaking with her. Al is left with sudden, intense headaches after each incident, the likes of which she has never experienced before. Is this coincidence, or is she somehow causing these deaths? Al attempts to keep her grip on reality and enlists her best friend investigate--battling violent ex boyfriends and the horror of the service industry along the way
After a one-night stand with her coach, a pressured swimming phenom finds the lives of herself and her loved ones in danger.
8,000 years in the future, two crewmembers, Rand and Shapiro, survive the crash-landing of their spacecraft on an uncharted planet made up entirely of sand.
A police chief tries to solve a kidnapping that involves a bank robber holding a young boy hostage.
After many years, a convict who spends his days sketching charcoal art in his prison cell receives a surprise visit from his estranged father, forcing him to contemplate his own existence.
A screenwriter lacking inspiration is given a very special typewriter by a strange friend that will make his dreams come true... And turn them into a nightmare.
The world faces a threat to humanity when humans start to mutate with powers. These special people who will start to help humanity are targeted by an ominous figure named Salar who looks for the perfect candid to become a monster.
The Laughing Man references Scott Snyder’s “Death of the Family” Batman comic and takes place in a psychiatric facility where a new, unidentified arrival is being questioned. Viewers are taken on a tense excursion into brutal, bloody territory as the dialogue unfurls into a high-stakes role reversal.
Parasomnia
A paranoid man spends his life alone at home.
The "breeder" is a psychopath with an unusual hobby: he keeps dogs and small children in kennels. On the short leash, he also has the fallen "catcher" - a guy with gambling debt who has to turn his conscience off when he goes hunting for his boss. But there's something wrong with that last catch. What the catcher doesn't know: the kidnapped boy is a vampire. And he's not the only one men get in trouble with - because there's also "Popsy". And he doesn't like that his boy was kidnapped.
After getting bitten by a rabid dog, Clara must stay locked in the small cabin where she lives with her mother and husband for 40 days. While the town is assaulted by a pack of savage dogs, Clara's seclusion causes a growing desire for freedom. To escape, she will have to overcome her family's fear and determination to protect her.
Benoît, 50, is a police lieutenant wounded by the disappearance of his wife, Lise. Unable to perform his grief, he sees his physical and mental health decline when she mysteriously surface again years later.