Beau Is Afraid
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic odyssey back home.
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
Escape
A young man becomes convinced that the solution to all his problems is to live in jail, and he will do whatever it takes to get it.
Mr. K
Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of his hotel. His attempts to get out only pull him deeper, entangling him further with the hotel and its curious inhabitants.
Call the Doctor
A rural doctor is urgently summoned to attend to a gravely ill young boy. Grappling with the pressures of his profession and the demands of his household, he embarks on a tumultuous journey that forces him to confront the darker facets of human frailty, both physical and moral.
Vignettes
Alex bleeds out at a get-together. Thom searches for a vanished shoe. Jimmy seeks revenge through mind control.
Metamorphosis
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Bondage Ecstasy
A young office worker turns into an insect. As an insect, he enters the orifices of his enemies and possesses them, allowing him to enact his revenge fantasies.
The Judgement
Georg writes a letter to his distant friend to announce his engagement. This seemingly ordinary act triggers a harrowing confrontation with his domineering Father.
Cocoon
Reality unravels when Cora suffers a mental breakdown at university.
Pushover
A man's life is upended by increasingly threatening phone calls demanding he leave a review for a paperweight purchased online.
Polymorphia
After an accident leaves his face entirely bandaged, a neurotic office worker undergoes an identity crisis.
Packages
In a city where you can have anything delivered, one man gets more than he bargained for.
The Insurance Man
Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a rash-like eczema, growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with ointment fail, and the rash gradually spreads over his body. After complaining to the management he is laid off work; his relationship with his fiancee is affected. In an attempt to get compensation from his former employers he looks to insurance firm Assicurazion Generali, where he encounters an enigmatic clerk called Kafka.
A Study for a Head
A girl turns to a disturbing source to find truth.
Corridor
In this short experimental film, Czech artist Josef Bolf turns an ordinary architectural space into a fragmented psychological journey.
Bills Included
In Madrid, a tenant agrees to ignore the existence of the other tenant living in his apartment, so that both inhabit the space as if it were an individual use.
It's rolling like a tomato
After mysteriously turning into a tomato, Israël must survive to his family and colleagues.
Pollination: A Modern Solution for Modern Human
A writer believes that pollination is the key to salvation for human beings.