The Forbidden Chapter

A collection of images, existing films, and personal footage. All of these melted together to show the destruction of time, and the decay of beliefs. Ranging from religious fundamentalism, sexual identity, the collapse of Western Society, and humanity’s contribution to art, literature, and mixed-media.

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

Mikaela has undergone gender reassignment and is now a woman. One night at a bar, she meets a guy and takes him back to her place.

After miscarrying for the second time, Genevieve struggles with disappointment, grief, and her well-intentioned husband.

A widow struggling to readjust to a life of grief unexpectedly meets a woman whose presence is transformative.

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

Waking up the morning after hosting a party, a man discovers a stranger passed out on his floor. He spends the rest of the day trying to convince her to leave.

A story about Nikola, a retired math teacher, who leads a quiet and private life, until he begins to feel a need to escape the loneliness that slowly is killing him, day by day. He decides it’s time for change and becomes the star of a very popular TV-show called “Love for all”. The concept of the show is to help old, lonely people to find life partners.

Faraz’s quiet life working at an isolated petrol station is turned upside down when his ageing father Malik begins to speak in a long-forgotten language and insists on returning back home.

A transgender girl named Silver is confronted with different parts of her identity as she transforms into a new, idealised version of herself and her deepest desires, as well as fears are revealed.

Kan and Tul are aspiring actors who meet at an audition. From there on, another story unfolds, and both find themselves battling their own feelings.

Stark 70s firework safety film which mixes the everyday and the uncanny.

Fernando is attracted to his best friend. They skip class together and go camping in the woods.

In her younger years, Rebeca's boyfriend left for the United States but promised to return and marry her. Seventeen years later, he reappears to keep his promise and have a wedding. As she prepares for the ceremony, Rebeca takes stock of a life spent waiting in a village where she can no longer remain.

When Vlace is suspended for hitting a classmate, Sasha is called to come get his son at school and has no choice but to take him along on his delivery route. During this intimate journey, we discover what provoked Vlace's uncharacteristic act, as father and son find their way toward a new understanding.

A son struggles with his father’s violent tendencies while his late mother attempts to help him.

Set in the 1960s, a young photographer becomes obsessed photographing a grieving man - the man that holds the truth to her brother's murder. She pushes the man into a spiral, and when her obsession comes to a sour end, realizes the tragic mistake she has made.

Two boxers meet for a fight in a closed gym. With one boxer well prepared for the fight ahead the other tries making his own luck to better his opponent.

A grown-up son goes on a countryside trip with his ageing parents in the hopes of reigniting the relationship, but there is nothing left to reignite. This story of familial dysfunction is set against the picturesque backdrop of a dacha community (instantly recognisable to every post-Soviet native), rendered by Vytautas Katkas with irony and a rare sympathy for his hapless subjects.

Sixteen-year-old Lucia wants to get rid of two things more than anything: her lice & her virginity.