The Event

Science fiction is a rare genre in the otherwise rich and diverse history of Egyptian mainstream cinema. One exception is the film "The Master of Time", directed by Kamal El Sheikh in 1987. In this film, the main character, a scientist named Mr. Kamel, is obsessed with the idea of immortality. Through radical editing, Lebanese artist and filmmaker Rania Stephan captures the quintessence of this obsession. In her film, she eliminates all fictional elements from the original and retains only the transition shots featuring doors, gates, and all forms of crossing and passing through.

A rogue journalism student investigates an abandoned psychiatric institution in hopes of uncovering its forgotten past.

A shy receptionist seeks the self-confidence she needs through a fantasy makeover, but may just lose herself in the process.

Within a single space, the director treats the sorrows of two people married to each other.

When an advanced race of giant lobsters from outer space land on Earth, no one can figure out why they've come. A complete failure to communicate on both ends leads to panic and pandemonium. Why are they here? What do they want? In this clever throwback to the ‘50s B-movie, a small neighbourhood learns the value of clear communication.

Blending fantasy and reality, this animated short is a bold inquiry into an as yet unresolved problem - the nature of human identity. When a scientist creates a machine that can make copies of physical objects, including humans, a number of ethical questions arise. Is the technique moral? What of its safety? A film by Oscar-winning filmmaker John Weldon (who also wrote the catchy banjo tune that punctuates the story's changing moods).

Inside a block of flats, a young woman decides to act about something concerning her for a long time.

Somewhere in the future where plastic surgery and decorative body implants is an essential part of a human's fashion and lifestyle, a woman called Susan under the pressure of family and friends takes a big step to begin her first facelift.

In a far future where artificial intelligence is indistinguishable from human people, Erin is a woman who lives isolated, with her only company being a robot assistant called Doc. But when Erin breaks her isolation and come out to the outside world, she discovers that her simple life isn't as simple as she thought.

Lucy Castor works for a sex robot packaging company where synthetic humans are packaged and stored awaiting customers' orders.

In Natal, on the Brazilian north coast, the country is preparing to launch its first manned space rocket into space. A couple lives with their two children near the space centre, she is a cleaner and he is a mechanic, but she dreams of other horizons.

Mergulhar

A middle-aged gentleman's bleak, colorless existence becomes unbearable when he encounters his doppelganger.

The plot of the film takes place in a foreign company located in southern Serbia. The warehouse manager enjoys his free weekend, which is interrupted by a warehouse worker who invites him to come to the warehouse in order to have a serious conversation with a new client from London. The manager had no idea what had happened there and what is yet to happen in the warehouse.

Caminho de Volta

When Hannah decides that she's had enough trick-or-treating with her little sister on Halloween night, she finds herself in over her head as she goes searching for the things she lost in a haunted hotel.

Two young people wait nervously outside an authority office, working together to attempt to conform to what is expected of them in their upcoming examination.

Told in reverse chronological order, an aspiring drag queen creates a world out of desolated motel rooms with the guy he met online.

In the distant future, inside an ‘all gay colony’, Cal and Spector, two paired lovers, fighting an internal battle – where remaining colony members ultimately pay the price of their twisted games.

A mute nurse cares deeply for the dying woman she lives with, but after a miscommunication with her client, she's forced to decide if she should break the one forbidden rule of the job - going outside.