Ricardo is a teenager searching for a way out of a ruthless reality that traps him and everyone around him, preventing them from reaching for the stars.
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
A half-hour experimental film that shows Fukui moving towards cyberpunk imagery in a manner similar to Tsukamoto, featuring industrial locations, a malfunctioning cyborg/android and a hulking metallic ‘caterpillar’ that stalks characters.
Shot in 16mm, Berenice is Rohmer’s first finished film. The film is based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe about a man who becomes obsessed with his fiancé’s teeth. The film was shot at Andre Bazin’s house by Jacques Rivette. Rivette also edited the film.
Safia, a 25 year old policewoman, fulfills her dream and joins the prestigious 36 quai des Orfèvres (the headquarters of the criminal investigations department of the Parisian police) after 5 years of service in Clichy-sous-bois. On her very first day, totally out of the blue, she comes across a dangerous gangster who defies her ruthlessly.
The Lentz Triplets are the biggest movie stars in the world. When it's time to renegotiate their contract, it's up to Biggs Tomlinson to get that ink on paper. He ventures to the mysterious Lentz household with his trusty briefcase in hand. There he meets Milly, aging film star and mother of the triplets. What follows is a game of cat and mouse as Biggs must solve the mystery of the Lentz family before it's too late.
A group of aliens searching for a new planet on which to make home, with little success. Promotional short for Dreamworks Animation's forthcoming feature, Home.
Myosis is the constriction of the iris which decreases the diameter of the pupil. It is an unconscious phenomenon which can be triggered by an intense light, fear, or the effect of epiphany.
Experimental stop-motion film by Dave Borthwick.
The ingenious and uncompromising scientist Pouya and her friend Joro are trying to create the perfect simulation - a new world. In the process, they enter into a battle with the mega-corporation, RenJi. It is a battle Pouya can only win if she merges with the machine, the AI EXIT, and becomes the impulse for the emergence of the new world herself.
Lorenzo works for an omnipresent corporation in a future of dystopian bureaucracy. His employee insurance denies him the medication that would help prevent him from losing his senses. Lorenzo quickly begins to lose contact with the world and in esperation decides to connect to the computer, making his pain cease, but becoming an eternal digital slave.
Why had a mother who seemed happy desired to end her own life? Desperate to uncover his mother’s true intentions, Sakuya ventures into uncharted technological territory. He turns to VF (Virtual Figure), a technology that aggregates personal data from one’s life to create a “human” in a virtual space.
A Twilight Zone-inspired cautionary tale about a young mother forced to come face-to-face with her deepest desire.
A man is floating through space in a pod, haunted by another crew member. He finally makes contact with another ship.
Impronta is a service that allows the user to revisit three minutes of their past for a maximum of three times. Alicia uses it to relive the last phone call she had with her daughter, before she completely disappeared, in order to try to understand what happened.
Three friends wake up from the best night of their lives, only to find that their friend is dead.
A son finds himself suspended in time, haunted by a presence that seems both familiar and distant. As he navigates a looped reality from a single point of view, fragments of memory and emotion begin to surface, hinting at something deeper left unresolved.
While going for a casual jog on bright yet cloudy morning, a young girl discovers the dead body of a teenager. But when she recognizes the face of the cadaver, she comes face to face with her own dark secrets.
Monette, a recently separated travelling book salesman tells his grim story to both a priest and a hitchhiker, looking for absolution.
Chain, starved for beauty in her desolate underground community of scavengers, appears to commit the crime of growing a flower by using scarce water. As Munk, who oversees the roulette type death punishment breathes in this world’s only flower she pauses in awe of the miracle, but the gun is loaded and the trigger is squeezed…