Seventeen-year-old Blake struggles to care for his dying grandfather, the founder of a fading Florida roadside attraction. Plagued by religious guilt, responsibility for his younger brother, and a desperate need to prove he isn’t destined to follow in his father’s violent footsteps, Blake hides his grandfather on the property after a freak accident. As the search for them intensifies, Blake becomes increasingly consumed by guilt and paranoia, convinced he must preserve his grandfather’s life at all costs. But buried family trauma, cosmic forces, and a mysterious tunnel beneath the orange groves begin to unravel Blake’s grip on reality.
Sabina has travelled from Romania to Holmsund in northern Sweden to find a job with her brothers. Elin has just finished school and is enjoying the first day of the summer holidays. That evening they meet, and it's a meeting that lasts forever.
Julio inherits a mask like his father used to kill. A group of young people will arrive at his town and cross his path. Julio must decide whether to continue the family tradition or embrace the love he has just known.
Omnibus film with 11 short films directed by students of the HfG Ulm
Janosch, an interpreter, is called to help during a police deployment at the Port of Hamburg. A young African woman has barricaded herself in a container ship and threatens to commit suicide. In order to get her out, Janosch promises to help her, an offer which bears unexpected consequences.
Pies y corazones
A single mother struggles with the day-to-day challenges of raising her daughter, holding down a job, and grieving her husband’s death.
After being discovered trying to escape, a woman must survive the night with her abusive girlfriend.
A vengeful widow seduces and murders the men and women responsible for her husband’s suicide.
Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their targets.
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.
A wide-eyed young postman and a gangster in trouble with the mafia find their lives become inexplicably intertwined when a heady affair attracts danger at every turn.
Eight different people are invited to their 10-year high school reunion at their now-closed down high school where a former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is there to seek revenge.
After a boat accident where he puts his son Flavio’s life at risk, fisherman Capudemazza decides to never go fishing again. Ten years later a discovery about his son awakens a feeling in him that had been buried.
Talvez o Vento Saiba seu Nome
The story of a photographer who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman who lives in the apartment opposite his.
A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s.
Olivia, a young woman living abroad, returns to her hometown in Mexico in the hope of reconnecting with her past. But the violence she witnessed as a child has not abated, and the journey rekindles memories that are impossible to reconcile with.
In this ultraviolent, retro-wave gorefest set in a dystopian landscape, an alley rat is chosen to save the crumbling planet from an alien sentinel.