Eyewitnesses across the globe describe encountering the same evil entity.
Adrianna, a young DJ artist and activist in the queer community, has learned to evolve in a world that is sometimes too stifling for her. By creating her own family and learning trades in which she can use all her creativity, Adrianna is spreading her wings.
"Sleep Paralysis" dives in to the little-known phenomenon of the same name. Affected people from different cultures tell of their frightening experiences, while scientists try to find explanations.
Eight people experience sleep paralysis, a condition which leaves them unable to move, speak or react.
Sparked by the true story of Aya, a four-year-old Jordanian girl killed by her father because he believed her to be possessed, filmmaker Dalia Al Kury launches a fascinating investigation into a controversial and little-known aspect of Islamic culture: belief in djinn. The djinn are believed to be supernatural creatures that occupy a parallel world to ours and their emergence is associated with sexuality, political unrest, poverty and mental illness. The taboo subject of demonic possession remains broadly unresolved in the hearts and minds of some Muslims due to its complex and uncomfortable nature. Using a subjective, “undercover” style, Al Kury journeys into the obscure world of exorcists and the possessed, confronting their traditions and rituals. It makes for a telling ghost story that bares the filmmaker’s and her society’s subconscious underbelly.
A collection of animations, bringing to life talking heads of people recounting nightmares. In the first, a girl escapes her school as it is invaded by monsters. In the second an account of sleep paralysis. In the third a boy finds a warehouse of demonic pigs under his bed.
The Djinn, having been released from his ancient prison, seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
All pregnant women living in the village where Rukye teacher Cemil lives begin to experience a curse. After Cemil teacher burns the entire jinn tribe to break this curse, everything becomes irreversible.
A woman struggling to cope with the death of her fiancé begins to suspect she might not be as alone as she thought.
Roni Gingrich is a PTSD survivor and aspiring artist whose buried childhood trauma manifests in the form of sleep paralysis and recurring dreams as she unravels the truth of her past.
A little girl called a demon spirit to take her mother's murder revenge. Kadir is a man victimized to his mother's black magic to separate him from every woman, including his wife that would ever think of approaching him But things went upside down as oppose to his mother's expectations.
During a failed art heist, the Djinn is once again liberated. This time, to complete the 1001 wishes that he needs before the final 3, he lets himself go to prison, where he starts his evil reign twisting the hopes of the prisoners. Meanwhile, the woman who set him free accidentally, Morgana, tries to find a way to stop him, aided by a young priest.
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
The short's main characters are Simone - a young and ambition-less unemployed man, and the titular Djinn - an ancient and powerful genie that is reduced to grant wishes in a small suburban office. The first of the two wishes for a job, whereas the second only wishes to steal as many wishes as possible to his "customer", to obtain as many years of life for himself. Both characters are running from a crisis: Simone from the economic depression, and the Djinn from a crisis of the imagination that is perhaps a direct consequence of the first.
A troubled young woman with a disturbing past goes to see a counselor about her night terrors, ones involving a shadowy figure that attempts every night to break into her home.
Housewife Dilek suddenly starts to feel the presence of something abnormal in her house. Her husband Omer refuses to agree, and the situation worsens. The couple discover that an ancient paranormal creature called Jinn has cursed on Dilek. They seek a cure but instead they learn of Dilek's demons.
A sleepy Sunday afternoon in an apartment. A woman dozes off in front of the TV. When she wakes up she finds herself in a kind of limbo between dream and reality. And in the periphery a dark figure is moving towards her.
During her childhood, Lindsay struggled with sleep paralysis. For years it was gone, but now that she's a beautiful grown woman the disorder is back - and worse than ever. Lindsay believes she's seeing her dead father during the paralysis and starts to think he wants to communicate.
Trapped in a recurring cycle of sleep paralysis, a man desperately searches for a way to break free.
A young man trapped in recurring sleep paralysis begins to lose the line between waking reality and hallucination, as something unseen waits for him on the other side.