Office Space
A depressed white-collar worker tries hypnotherapy, only to find himself in a perpetual state of devil-may-care bliss that prompts him to start living by his own rules, and hatch a hapless attempt to embezzle money from his soul-killing employers.
Niskala
Amid the relentless pressure of looming deadlines, Nala (25), an illustrator, finds herself trapped in an art block that leaves her unable to complete her work. When she discovers a paper crane origami and her late mother's childhood sketchbook, she begins retracing the memories that first sparked her love for drawing. Through fragments of the past filled with hope, joy, and pain, Nala realizes that she has spent so much time chasing expectations that she has forgotten why she started creating in the first place. This journey leads her to embrace every experience both painful and beautiful as an essential part of who she has become. With a renewed sense of purpose, Nala picks up her pencil once again, not in pursuit of perfection, but to create honestly and reconnect with herself.
Typed Out
Lydia cannot rest. Days are counting down to a deadline she cannot miss. With each moment that passes the wall she built to protect herself from the world crumbles. But, sometimes, when walls collapse, it lets the light shine through.
Frágua
Trapped outside the office with an angry line of men behind her, a burnout woman brings her company to a standstill.
How Are You?
A week in the life of five high school students as they face struggles with their online classes during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the Edge
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada.
Chrysalis
After a depressive episode, a pet shop attendant can no longer work. Medicated but still struggling, she is forced to return to her normal life.
Échappé
In returning to their old ballet school burnt-out dancer – Sylvie - explores their past in order to decide what to do with their future.
Implosion
A driven chemist isolates herself in a university laboratory while pursuing a nearly unattainable experiment. As exhaustion, pride, and unspoken tension accumulate, the pressure she keeps contained threatens to implode.
Weg vom Fenster - Leben nach dem Burnout
Fosse commune
Four entrepreneurs are searching for a narrative for their newly founded startup. Lacking inspiration, they discover an app that creates virtuous stories of revolution, community, sustainability... but it ultimately confronts them with the reality of current corporate models.
Vampiras
Facing dismissal, a supermarket worker decides to investigate her perfect colleague. At dusk, she sees her colleague attacking a man and is forced to make a choice.
Uphill
Ambitious Madleen and carefree creative spirit Hugo embark on a symbolic journey up the mountain of success, exposing the tension between societal pressure and self-fulfillment. While Madleen strives to meet society’s expectations and achieve a high-status career, Hugo chooses to move through life at his own pace, guided by creativity rather than external expectations. The film invites the audience to reflect on the choices young adults face in a success-driven society and to question the decisions we make and the values we prioritize in life.
Speed: In Search of Lost Time
It’s a paradox. Never before in history we have worked more efficiently. Never before we have saved time with more sophisticated technologies. Anyway, nearly all of us are feeling an increasing pressure of time. It seems that the same technology that has been invented to make our life better and easier, is now enslaving us. Why?
The Mirage
Le Mirage is the perspective of a man in his thirties asking himself "what am I chasing?" Our society has become all about consumerism, if not excess. Success is determined by what and how much we have and "stuff" becomes the band-aid to a meaningless existence. Stuff fills the void of the existence we weren't meant to lead.
No More God in Doctor
Emergency medicine intern Margaux can no longer stand it. During another very hectic and patient-filled shift, she forgets a homeless woman on a stretcher who then dies. Shocked Margaux has no choice but to continue working. But suddenly, her body starts sweating blood uncontrollably.
Alone Time
A young woman, stressed by her busy and continually crowded New York City existence spontaneously retreats to a solitary lake deep in the Adirondacks.
Infernophobia
An obsessive composing student alone in his apartment takes on more than he can handle when a night terror turns nightmare come true.
The Happy Worker - Or How Work Was Sabotaged
Our premise is that work has become an act of self-sabotage. Empty corporate jargon, ever-changing management fashions and self-serving bureaucracy masquerading as efficiency hijacked the purpose of work. Creative documentary The Happy Worker will show how we got to this point and the very human behavior that led us here. We want to show how this unhealthy system is maintained and what keeps us from calling bullshit.
Living To Die
A burned-out private detective in Las Vegas gets involved in blackmail and murder.