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A collection of eight short films by director Sergiy Pudich, shot across four countries, blending horror, drama, and dark comedy into a twisted anthology where the fragile balance between reality and imagination constantly unravels
In a strange valley suspended in time, LaBouche Canalla, an irresistible, sexy, fierce, and feral country girl with an insatiable hunger for men's flesh, wanders around searching for her next victim.
Following the death of half of the global population by a virus, a scientist has introduced a new form of life: the Mnemonix.
In a secret multiverse shaped by an Artificial Oracle (AO) trapped in an ancient Etruscan quantum computer, Taitle, Master of the Labyrinth, is caught in a lucid dream. Only Vecu, a code-born Nymph, can invoke lost rites to save him before all collapses.
Set in the near future, a student accidentally discovers old photographs of the same stretch of beach taken by school students over the past 65 years. The temporal distance between the old photos and the protagonist immediately creates a sense of disorientation. In a sort of time loop, we witness successive generations, all drawn to the same thematic focal point.
Tokyo. Kazu and Tatsu are two salary men in their thirties. One night, after work, they get drunk and decide to tell each other their deepest secrets to seal the friendship. Tatsu admits being still a virgin. Kazu reveals that every time he eats an egg sandwich, his body transforms, turning him into a woman. Tatsu doesn’t believe his friend and asks him to prove it...
A dystopian sci-fi thriller set in "Paradise", an imaginary city where A.I. is taking over the workforce leading the social isolation.
To describe the world is to create another. A disembodied narrator recounts the life and death of Pliny the Elder, author of the first encyclopedia. Excerpts from Pliny’s "Naturalis Historia," echo between past and present, real and virtual, tracing the evolution of knowledge from written encyclopedias to modern AI algorithms.
In a dystopian future, Nura, a 54-year-old woman, lives in isolation in a barren, waterless world, relying on her greenhouse to survive. Here, she cultivates with loving devotion everything she needs.
In a future dominated by digital corporations, Maya is a cyborg who offers alternative identities in the virtual afterlife. When she breaks the rules by granting freedom to her clients, she becomes a threat and is hunted down. On the run and searching for her lost daughter, she travels through artificial worlds and rebel communities, discovering that even digital paradise is ruled by control.
At the height of the Cold War, facing the threat of nuclear annihilation, a group of Hollywood filmmakers—haunted by the horrors of World War II—bands together in a secret programme known as ARCA. A hundred years later, their legacy is our last hope.
Today, in an Italy that has never freed itself from the Nazi-Fascist regime, you can only speak if you pay. If you use more words than you can afford, you will be silenced forever by the regime's guards.
In the business district of La Défense, a wave of suicides expose the fractures of a crumbling society. Strangers move through the streets like ghosts, bound by the invisible threads of paranoia. In the eerie glow of a collapsing city, destruction may be the only chance for rebirth.
After struggling to choose an ice cream flavor, Guido discovers his whole life has been a simulation engineered for that single decision. As reality unravels, he's forced to question identity, destiny, and the meaning of choice itself.
During a cognitive interview, a professor recalls an old AI he designed and finds himself lost in fragments of memory, narrative threads, and thoughts he can no longer tell apart from the machine’s.
In the not-so-distant future, Earth, choked by plastic, sends a secret expedition to an uninhabited planet to test an extreme method: having animals digest waste. The scientists land on DR0M3-D4R10, a dry and mysterious land, and begin the experiment. But the animals fall ill, the project fails, and the expedition is abandoned to its fate. In a desperate attempt to survive, they begin hunting the planet's only sentient creature, upsetting a sacred balance. The planet's revenge is not long in coming. Only one option remains: to leave a memory, a mark. A distant voice, native to the planet, tells their story.
You are in a bedroom observing a man quietly sleeping in his bed. His TV turns on and a strange figure shows up.
In a future without imagination, storytelling means recycling the past. A vintage tutorial, narrated by an AI, guides creators in combining fragments of old narratives, revealing that creation is construction, not invention.
From 1947 to 1969, the U.S. Air Force carried out a systematic study of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings, codenamed “Project Blue Book.” Thousands of reports from American and European citizens were recorded during those years; more than 700 cases remained “unidentified.” The film reuses original documents from the now-declassified project, superimposing them over family footage from the same period. In the encounter between the domestic and the scientific, the familiar and the alien, a hidden portrait emerges of a nation haunted by its own astronomical obsessions.
During his ex's wedding, Samuele faces a crisis with Laura. Meanwhile, Mary Tor starts receiving mysterious calls for help. To uncover the truth, she brings the group together: between suspicion, revelations, and tested bonds, truths emerge that no one was ready to face.
Planet Earth, year 2960 AD. A group of uranium hunters returns to the blue planet in search of the precious metal. The crackling of the Geiger counter leads one team member deep into a cave. There, the explorer encounters an ancient relic from the old world, awakening it from a slumber that had lasted for centuries, perhaps millennia.
A dystopian world where reality isn’t certain and has no boundaries. A mad one, seeking a higher power, willing to do anything for it, even killing others. Two agents and a young scientist on his trail. A rush against time where everyone’s skills will be put to the test.
A strange plague which made the air unbreathable came crashing down on Earth and, as a result, led men to its relentless extinction. A boy with a gas mask wanders on a beach, snooping in the sand and wandering around without a clear destination, surrounded by the restlessness of the place and by the vigilant silence of the strange creature bringing chaos. One day, on one of the countless patrols, the boy finds what remains of a mannequin with a metal suitcase attached containing a video camera and a photo of a little girl. The unusual finding will lead the boy to question himself about the sense of his own existence as a survivor, devoid of any human contact.
The story follows two scientists searching for an artificial intelligence they created—a robot that has mysteriously disappeared. It was taken by a third scientist, once their collaborator, who now believes the robot must be destroyed after it begins to exhibit signs of consciousness. Before eliminating it, the third scientist interrogates the robot, trying to understand its awareness. But the robot rebels, kills him, and escapes.
The conversation between a patient and his therapist takes an unexpected turn. Reflecting on the meaning of life and free will, the session leads both of them to an incredible revelation.
Leo is a lonely young man who works as a night cleaner, dragging his life in a monotonous routine between deserted streets and bags of waste. One night he discovers a flyer that leads him into a mysterious instructional game. An anonymous envelope, an enigmatic device and an address push him to take to the streets at dawn. Once he reaches his destination he finds a strange bare room where the voice of an AI welcomes him, ready to put him before a choice capable of turning his life upside down.
What if there were a cult devoted to fungi and humanity itself was born from them? This short film combines animation and photography to imagine a world where fungi are honored through values, prayers, dances, and rituals in harmony with nature.