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A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives. An adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by19th Century wood engravings which are animated by scratching directly into the surface of color filmstock. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with its message of ecological redemption has a curiously contemporary resonance, but it is at the level of the mythic that the poem has lasting relevance; for this epic tale of extraordinary events simply mirrors the struggle that each human being faces on their own in his or her life. -VDB

Hollywood Lucifer

A young man pretends to sleep while he watches his lover go through her morning routine.

On Mexico's northern border, adolescent Sandra tries to cross to the United States in the search of the American Dream.

Steve is very good at his job. Some might say a little too good. To some others... suspiciously good. The nature of Steve's ascension to corporate glory is riddled ...

Twenty-one-year-old Juan gets some terrible news from his doctor: he has aggressive lung cancer. His whole life turns upside down as the disease evolves.

Ophelia goes to El Oasis, a tavern where men pick up men, looking for her husband. Her suspicions confirmed, she faints and a transgender prostitute unexpectedly helps her.

Writer Toprak Karasu receives a letter from her mother, whom she does not know, at a time when she is having an artistic crisis. In the letter, he writes that his mother left him a house as an inheritance. Toprak wants to sell the house as soon as possible and pay off his debts, but a sudden encounter completely turns all his life plans upside down.

Tom fainted when the doctor took some blood, he fell on the floor. Just a bit dizziness, nothing more, or so it seems.

On the border between Norway and the Soviet Union, a fisherman refuses to give up his catch.

When the son is sad, the daddy makes the happy ending.

After years of helping euthanize the terminally ill, a "hospice" worker begins to question the ethics of her job.

The Clearing is the story of amphetamine abuser Kia and her struggle for a decent existence.

Two friends seek spiritual salvation in India, away from their hedonistic and disconnected London lives, in advance of the impending collapse of the Cosmos.

Two young men from the same neighborhood meet randomly. As they give each other the lowdown of their night out, an unexpected game envelops them.

A woman has a phone conversation with her significant other which slowly deteriorates as she comes to realize that the world around her might not be real.

A young girl comes to terms with her life in foster care.

After a car accident, a skeptical New Yorker must call for help on a mysterious pay phone that responds only to '411'. He gets Information, and in a twist of fate, much more than that.

“A Grain of Wheat” is a story of two bakeries in Yokohama. A French baker, Eriko, makes a sudden visit to Honda who is the owner of a historical bakery in Yokohama. They have different attitudes towards the craft of bread making but they start to feel mutual respect as they make bread together.