Highway to the Moon
Follows the experiences of young Black men whose lives have been abruptly snatched away. Micah is a young man who finds himself in the Inbetween, a mysterious realm between life and death, after his life is suddenly cut short. As he journeys through this liminal space, guided by a group of other young men, they confront what it means to be a Black boy in today’s society, weaving together a narrative of resilience and self-discovery, in order to ultimately empower each other to embrace empathy, mutual compassion and self-worth.
Heaven Can't Wait
The moving story of Carlo Acutis, a young British-Italian amateur computer programmer who died in 2006, aged 15, as a result of leukemia. However, even though he is no longer here, to this day Carlo continues to be a great symbol of strength among young people. The documentary brings together a series of reports from people who entrusted themselves to the intercession of the boy, beatified by the Catholic Church in 2020, and had their lives transformed.
The Purgation
Ever since she was a little girl, Iris has wanted to be a filmmaker. For the last five years though, she's been trapped working in reality television, directing episodes for a series that's barely able to compete with Ghost Hunters. Iris sees her big chance to prove herself when she gets sent on assignment to her hometown of Black Falls, a small town harboring an abandoned insane asylum that has a dark history of excessive shock therapy. Filming inside the asylum brings back childhood memories for Iris, memories of sneaking into the asylum with her friends to shoot homemade horror movies. Little does Iris know, her life is about to imitate her art.
The Apartment
A man wakes up disoriented in his own apartment, and soon realizes that he is locked up and has no way out.
Until Death
Alex and Chiara die in a car crash just after getting married. In the purgatory where they are now trapped, they are asked to make a decision : stay together or split up for good, as they are slyly advised in the afterlife.
Hiraeth
The story of a lonely young man as he inexplicably wakes up in his dark and empty apartment one day. What follows is his journey through this mysterious and unrecognizable world he is thrown into. As he tries to grasp the surreal occurrences happening around him, he comes closer to unraveling the truth behind his existence and his dark past.
Offline
Set at a remote beach house rental, the story follows two couples — one straight, one lesbian — as they awaken from a night of celebration to find that the internet, smartphones, and all forms of modern digital technology never existed. With only a landline, analog TV, and a CD stereo system in sight, the five friends are thrown into an alternate version of reality that feels like the 1980s — despite the newspaper still reading March 2015.
Ava in the End
A woman's accidental death quickly leads to her waiting for the next life to begin.
The Eyes of Dante
He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopticon of occidental education – theology, philosophy, sciences, politics and literature. But who has really read it, the “Divine Comedy”? Who knows more of its creator Dante Alighieri than that he had an eagle-like profile and was in love with a woman named Beatrice? 700 years after Dante’s death, the filmmaker Adolfo Conti travels through Italy with Dante’s words in mind and eyes to see the world as Dante did. As the film encounters the beauty of arts and the Tuscan landscape, the forces of nature, a dramatic life story is unfolded.
Candle
Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining fragments she tries to make amends with her spirit before her remaining fragments either decay or create.
Skärseld
An established writer goes to the Nobel Prize Banquet in Stockholm. He is a family man. In the background another woman. A suicide attempt. His work is rejected by the publisher.
The Bus Driver
A rural school bus driver turns to theft but is held accountable for his actions.
The Virtues of Solitude
In the future, a second great flood covers most of the known world. Country borders collapse and language barrier disappear. All salvageable books are taken to a deep underground vault facility for protection. Run by priests, the facility is called The Stacks. As Olivia wanders the facility she discovers that she may not be alone and that a dark part of her past may have followed her into the narrow corridors of this inescapable purgatory.
Heaven's Waiting
Lisang’s soul is trapped in purgatory due to her bad behavior. Once again, her name is picked and reconsidered. Will she be able to make it this time?
Slow, rises the moon
A tragedy of a man who happens (on accident) to fall into purgatory. After which a series of bizarre events occur within and a gradual realisation of his demise
Purgatorium
After his death, a young man stuck in purgatory attempts to cope with the afterlife.
First Haunt
Claire, a young woman afraid to move on, enters purgatory after being brutally murdered, only to find the unexpected business world of haunting where she's assigned to haunt Will - a struggling writer who just found the inspiration for his new murder mystery novel.
Metempsychosis
The trippy and terrifying past of a psychedelic rock band comes back to haunt them at a remote mountain lodge.
The Revenants
The filmmaker travels to the mysterious land of the “poor souls.” He visits eyewitnesses in rural areas of Central Switzerland. They offer their account of mystifying experiences in connection with the afterlife, of evil deeds by people who passed away long ago in need of atonement. The film investigates the hidden signs of mountain magic and reminds us of our own myths, ghosts and primal images. It also looks for paths to self-awareness that could be revealed to us within and under layers of centuries-old Catholic cultural sediment.
Cynthia
Cynthia is the story about a man in purgatory who's soul is being condemned to hell by his murdered girlfriend under the gaze of the devil who eagerly awaits.