Being able to see in the dark is a bless, but in Beijing, it's a curse....
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Being able to see in the dark is a bless, but in Beijing, it's a curse....
Nearing the end of WWII, Nazis realize that their defeat is imminent, so a handful of them board a plane bound for Argentina, where they plan to live in hiding. During the flight, lightning hits the plane and the SS parachute onto an island populated by savages. Atrocities await.
A story about the key events of the Wielkopolska Uprising - a dramatic arrival of Ignacy Jan Paderewski in Poznań, and the people who prepared the uprising, fought in it and won.
"Nanny" tells the story of a young and fragile Caribbean girl, who wakes up at night in a dark forest where she makes the most frightening encounter ever..
Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn depicts the story of Ardyn Izunia, the main nemesis in Final Fantasy XV. The story of suffering, death, and resurrection leading up to the main story in FFXV. This animation reveals the story two millennia ago…
A man who talks with the buildings of the city meets an old woman who is about to die. They spend a magical night together.
Creator's inner self starts to evolve.
Phyllis is a moving and atmospheric portrait of a ‘psychic’ vampire, a woman obsessed with synthetic Nollywood dramas, that lives alone in Lagos, Nigeria. The central idea of this short experimental film is the practise and significance of wig-wearing in Nollywood film; a practise the director has invested with deeper psychological as well as science-fiction layers. Underpinning this central idea however is a critique of the unforgiving treatment of single women in Nollywood and Nigeria. The film is an example of what the director, Zina Saro-Wiwa, has termed “alt-Nollywood”, a genre that plays with and reworks certain narrative, stylistic and visual conventions of Nollywood. Phyllis explores the gothic possibilities of the Nollywood aesthetic creating a new kind of low-budget atmospheric film that is very much of Nollywood and yet subverts the genre. Using Nollywood to subvert Nollywood.
In 1895, Shivkar Bapuji Talpade constructs and flies India's first unmanned plane, despite having the odds stacked against him.
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg join forces to stop J.J. Abrams before it's too late.
The Gospel of Mark filmed by The Lumo Project which brings the original Jesus narrative to the screen using the Gospel text as its script, word for word. Informed by leading world experts' latest theological, historical and archaeological research on every aspect of life in first century Palestine, this is a ground breaking multi-million pound film series that revolutionises the way we experience and understand the story of Jesus.
A suicidal girl falls in love with a fallen angel.
Humans massacred their race, wrote them out of history, and pushed them into myth... Now in the midst of a Vampire civil war, an exiled Vampire prince has escaped into the mountains of the new America, building a hidden army for revenge against his family. Years later, in the dead of winter, a group of grad students start their research on the disappearance of wildlife in those very mountains. When they come close to the truth, they begin the fight for their own survival. As the fight escalates, the Vampire prince descends upon the conflict. He is forced to visit his dark past as the fates of the student's are decided.
Drupadi, a woman who hardly contains her longing, begins a long mythical journey to find her separated lover, Bima. In the midst of her exhaustion, just when she is about to rest, she heard a voice. Intrigued by the mysterious noise, she decides to track it down, and slowly found herself lost, deep into foreign places. There she is then founded and trifled by whimsical creatures. Little did she know, she has been herded to the other world, where she is then transformed and meet Bima, who has been preoccupied in a limbo.
A robot named "Oono" cares for his owner while mysterious creatures lurk in the strange world outside.
Three characters make the realization that none of them have ever felt true-fear, so over the course of one night, they set out to trick each other into feeling it.
A couple of hippies are searching for Joe, a long time friend from the 70s who seem to be stuck in time and never aged a day since then. Through technicolor ninjas, bizarre metalheads, shamans and ancient rituals, the two embark on a journey with no turning back.
Prehistoric Superman follows Tang Lü, an immortal superhuman born from Atlantis royalty. After being adopted in the Ming Dynasty by General Tang Wenlan, he grows up unaware of his origins. With the appearance of a sacred stone in 2018 China, Tang Lü returns from Europe in search of it. He crosses paths with Zhu An’an, a quirky journalist who accidentally gains mysterious powers through the stone. The two get entangled in wild, comedic misadventures while being pursued by Dr. Yue Jianli, a dark-powered dwarf scientist from a secret foreign agency obsessed with Atlantis. As their powers grow, a battle between good and evil looms.
After the sudden death of his wife, Ezequiel lives sad and resigned in solitude. Until the day that an extra-terrestrial being appears in his life and changes the color of his destiny.
I Yam What I Yam...L'invenzione' is centered around the collision of two films originally shot on the same location; Emidio Greco's 'L'invenzione di Morel' (1974) and Robert Altman's 'Popeye' (1980). In Greco's film a shipwrecked man stumbles upon an ultra-modernist mansion. In it he finds a group of people trapped in a perpetual present facilitated by a machine that's capable of reproducing reality. Sant's reinvention of this film is shot on the same location, follows the same storyline, but occupies another world. In place of the mansion, he finds himself in 'Sweethaven' - the set of Altman's 'Popeye'. Though there is no trace of Greco's set, Altman's 'Sweethaven' remains - echoing Greco's plot by existing as an open-air museum where costumed entertainers re-enact scenes.
THE BUG/Lost Movie is a film by Tessa Hughes-Freeland, created between 1998 - 2018.
After being told by her boss that the company needs to attract more clients, Elizabeth, a skilled executive, meets one of Santa’s helpers, who blesses her with an extraordinary gift allowing Elizabeth to hear everyone’s unspoken thoughts. While first using her new-found power to get ahead at work, she soon learns to become a better person, turning an office rivalry into romance while learning the true meaning of Christmas along the way.
An ancestral and magical ritual is performed every year in a village lapped by the sea and the sun, on a late summer night that smells of salt and wild flowers. A memory for one night. A memory that tastes like home. What if there was someone who didn't just want to remember but relive? It should seek answers in that sea which is memory, heart, tears and vortex. This is Roberta's journey, a return home, to nostalgia, to loss. A return that is at the same time a new beginning...
During the torch relay of the People’s Games in 2016, the "Night Walker" robs the Holy Flame in the College of Gods and Demons in order to call Fairy He's attention. The Jade Emperor sends Eight Immortals to the college to get back the Holy Flame. After nine competitions, Eight Immortals defeated the Night Walker. However, their victory fails to re-ignite the Holy Flame, until the Immortals realize the meaning of sports while helping the Night Walker at the competition...
With dark shades on and a burning cigarette between his lips, Makoy will do whatever it takes to get back his girlfriend Sonia, who’s pregnant with their child. He makes the trip to remote Pulupandan, her hometown, and is quickly rebuffed by Sonia’s mother Fely. But Makoy has never been one to give up. With the help of Sonia’s father Nestor and his ever-dependable helper Bart, Makoy stays in town to surprise Sonia on her birthday. But alas, Makoy gets into trouble with a group of townsfolk who transform into tiktik—horrific, man-eating creatures with a taste for fetuses that are still in the womb! They are angry, and they are hungry for revenge. Will their thirst for blood and retribution be quenched? Will Makoy finally get his act together, protect Sonia and their baby, and once and for all prove himself worthy of their love? Who will win in the battle between men and monsters?
The lives of two women intersect.
In the third adventure of Ledo and Ix, new terrain hints that Ledo will finally get the fight she's been waiting for.
The night in a big city. A young woman walks alone on a bridge, her gaze unfathomable. She stops, hesitates briefly, then jumps to her death. Under mysterious circumstances, Mara survives the jump and wakes up dazed in hospital. The doctors are strangely reserved when she calls her boyfriend Janis. Mara flees home from the hospital, but finds a completely changed apartment where another woman has taken her place and throws Mara out of the apartment. It slowly becomes clear that no one recognizes Mara, she seems to have completely "fallen out of the world".
Young, struggling musicians Ray and Don are evicted from their South London squat. They take to the road in their old Volvo Amazon, planning to sell their prized vinyl record collection and fly to Memphis USA. However, when they fail to get the money needed, they steal a rare Black Metal record which seems to unleash dark forces that threaten their mission.
Third-grader Himeno moves to a huge mansion in the country. However, she soon finds out it's a ninja house! The ninjas Akamaki, Aomaki, and Kiiromaki mistake Himeno for a princess and begin solving problems for her with their own unique skills. But that is not the full extent of their powers! When Aomaki and Kiiromaki combine, they form Midorimaki. Similarly, when Akamaki and Aomaki combine, they form Murasakimaki; and when Akamaki and Kiiromaki combine, they form Daidaimaki. Life with these colorful ninjas has only begun when they discover a large tornado heading for the mansion. What will happen to Himeno's family? Can the colorful ninjas protect Himeno?
Two actresses rehearse a play during a week-end in a country house. But one of them digs up a strange thing from earth while walking in the woods. A creature the size of a seal, without any holes nor members. The mass of flesh and skin, covered with hair, breathes loudly. The creature becomes an object of lust for both women. The relationship between the two actresses becomes tense. Both women are desperate to own the thing. This leads to a series of burlesque and violent situations. The two actresses have no idea that they have unearthed "Notre-Dame des Hormones"
Luana (Thaís Inácio) and Camila (Adassa Martins) stay in the pension of the mysterious Cassandra (Teuda Bara). There, an insistent trail of ants comes up every night bringing out shadowy secrets.
The bravest adventurer at The League of Interplanetary Process Servers attempts to deliver 30 subpoenas throughout the universe in only ten minutes.
David Cork (Lachlan Woods) is a lowly data processor slaving away in the cubicle wasteland of Endo Bank's notorious Data Processing Centre, the DPC. But his real passion is manga. David is obsessed with the superhero Foxy Chaos - and he aspires to meet her creator, Takuya Fujimoro. David's manga dreams are shattered when a sinister Russian HR guru arrives at the DPC. Max Menkoff (Noah Taylor) has big plans and no worker is safe from his "method". Murder, chaos and office zombies take hold! Only David, in alliance with the brilliant and determined Ruby Jackson (Jessica Clarke), can stand in Menkoff's way. But what is the Menkoff Method? And what does it mean for David Cork?
One winter evening, in snowy weather, a woman goes to work. The environment is hostile, the work exhausting. A window won't close: it's snowing inside... and the place of drudgery becomes a space of discovery.
Eric Leiser directed & animated this handmade stop motion commercial for actress Chloë Sevigny fragrance by Régime des Fleurs
Our fate is the hands of three sisters: Clotho, Atrophos y Laquesis. The latter has decided to destroy the world, but love has not said her last word.
A romantic reimagining of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream set against the turbulent backdrops of the 1962 Argentinian military coup and the 1982 war for the Falkland Islands.
First a boy is forced to run. Then he runs on his own. Then he watches another one run.
An investigation on the rarest and most controversial French movie in the history of early cinema: a fascinating, lost and dangerous short film which causes violent reactions to those who watch it.
On a lonely night, at an unnamed town, Charlotte sits in a diner after a long drive from the middle of-nowhere. As she drinks her cup of stale coffee and reminisces about her journey, the door suddenly opens, and in come her ex girlfriend, Cleo, with a new male lover.
An insecure young woman battles her own fears as she tries to manage the pressures of her job.
When Diego's girlfriend decides to leave him after a disastrous anniversary getaway, he will find any means possible to amend or fix what happened. Even if it means competing with different versions of himself when traveling through time.
Afraid of the outside world, Emily (Savanah McMahon) seeks an unorthodox therapist that tells her of a spell that will rid her of her phobia by summoning a Dead Ring.
Learning that island of Delos has been taken over by Neuroi, Charlotte E. Yeager and Francesca Lucchini are teamed up with Hanna-Justina Marseille and her partner Raisa Pöttgen to draw out the Neuroi hiding within it. Francesca, who has strong family ties with Delos, objects to their superior's plan to destroy the island, so they work out a new plan to have Hanna and Raisa draw out the Neuroi while Charlotte and Francesca drop bombs on it. When this plan ends up failing, Francesca tries to attack on but is inevitably forced to retreat. The next day, before the bombardment on the island is due to take place, Charlotte, unwilling to let Francesca down, decides to make use of an abandoned ship's winch to pull the Neuroi out of its hiding place, allowing it to be destroyed without any damage to the island. Afterwards, Francesca takes Charlotte and the others on a tour of Delos and its artifacts. (Source: Wikipedia)
Lucy begins to realize she is not like the other teens in school.
A modern reimagining of the trick film, combining the love of spectacle, the artist's process and the dark state of today's politics.
A beautiful desperate widow goes on a dangerous quest to meet a mythical wish-granting unicorn who lies deep in the cannibal-infested "Wishing Forest." Along the way, she encounters a mighty warrior and a deceptive thief, who may or may not be trustworthy. But danger lurks everywhere and they are being tracked by the deadliest cannibal of all, a bloodthirsty savage who worships a magical feral Goddess who feasts on the hearts of his victims.
Omnibus film made in partnership between Studio 4C and Toyota. The shorts are the following: Time Master by Tatsuyuki Tanaka, The Door to the Future by Takashi Nakamura, Crazy Consumption by Sayo Yamamoto, The Last of the Flowers by Tomoyuki Niho.
After his vampire boss snacks on a few employees, a hapless accountant learns that monsters are real, hungry and of course, looking for him. As he struggles to avoid his own untimely end, the fate of the world rests in his hands.
This film is a metaphor for who we are, for where we come from? A secret held in the abyss. To read the message - through fear and prejudice, from imitation to communion, from meditation to movement. Dance to the horizon - from points of no return. The irony of our metamorphosis - in order to grow, the seed must die.
After discovering a dark window which appears on the wall every midnight two boys decide to investigate the mystery of a dark room behind the window.
The story is set after the Jinshou (Buddhist divine generals) were defeated by darkness and became lost in time. After the world descended into chaos, Zan, a samurai with no memories, discovers his calling and assembles fellow soldiers who can cross through time and space. Together, they take on the legions of darkness.
After ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. The few remaining souls are scattered about, living in misery and lacking hope. An anxious silence hangs over the land. On one particularly starry night, two peasants find a stranger on the seashore.
Two male, glowing creatures start a fight over trying to impress a female. Each one of them wants to win her over by giving a better light show than his competitor. They are on fire - until one gets burned.
This is the story that always appears in the dreams of Kokone, who eventually becomes a high school student. What is the secret hidden in the fairy tale that Kokoneheard as a young boy? And then, what is this secret entrusted to his father Momotaro's mind? This movie depicts the adventures of the main character, high school student Morikawa Kokone, who appears in the dreams of another main character, Yasue, another nap princess.