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I Saw the TV Glow
1h 40m
Movie 2024

I Saw the TV Glow

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

FADE OUT
0h 15m
Movie 2025

FADE OUT

A young woman battles depression as her husband avoids both his and her issues.

Chimera
0h 2m
Movie 2024

Chimera

Art being used as an escape from reality.

Zoneout
0h 14m
Movie 2023

Zoneout

Rohan, a young man, returns home to a bustling household in preparation for his birthday party. As the family gets caught up in the chaos of the occasion, tensions rise and arguments erupt. Feeling overwhelmed, Rohan seeks refuge in his room, only to find himself transported to a parallel universe. Here he meets Zoneout, a formidable entity who provides him with valuable insights into his predicament.

Night Lapse
0h 6m
Movie 2021

Night Lapse

In a grey asleep scenario, a young man embarks on a journey evading from time and space.

Escape
0h 15m
Movie 2024

Escape

An experimental short film that follows a man who arrives home alone during the holidays after a long day of work. Finding himself consumed by his loneliness he looks for a way to escape.

Impression
0h 15m
Movie 2023

Impression

Impression and interpretation: A film that relies on sensory techniques to tell a story about depression, alienation and ultimately loneliness.

Greenpeace
0h 2m
Movie 2024

Greenpeace

A person comes into contact with quietness.

Feed Your Head
0h 20m
Movie 2024

Feed Your Head

Torn between the desire to protect his little brother in a violent world and the longing for the utopia of a queer community, Hector (23) embarks on a journey between reality and fantasy to reflect on his own experience of violence and to find closeness to his brother again.

HŏSa
0h 3m
Movie 2024

HŏSa

Inundated by the relentless, breakneck pace of Seoul, a weary woman seeks to anesthetize her misery with alcohol and partying. Longing to break free, she will have to take a leap of faith to find solace and serenity.

Horn of Camahueto
1h 0m
Movie 2024

Horn of Camahueto

After the social uprising in Chile in October 2019, Camilo el Hueto seeks refuge in Italy, attempting to escape the memories that haunt him. However, a letter will force him to return to his homeland, where he is no longer welcome, determined to get rid of that cursed horn once and for all.

How to Vanish Completely
0h 10m
Movie 2024

How to Vanish Completely

Every morning is the same morning: the alarm, then breakfast, then shower… And every morning the same desire, the same wish to break with everything for once. Today, everything is still the same but something has changed inside. Today may be the day.

Wind Blowing in Jeju
TV Show 2018

Wind Blowing in Jeju

The two men and women are connected to each other through the medium of photography, but it is a three-night, four-day travel story of Jeju Island that is created by solving the conflicts and conflicts caused by the so different attitudes toward photography.

White Nights
1h 0m
TV Show 2016

White Nights

A coldhearted heiress, a man from her past and an ambitious new hire in her company all become entangled on a battleground for money and power.

Abigail's Dawning
0h 8m
Movie 2020

Abigail's Dawning

Suffering from addiction and homelessness, Abigail wanders the city on a cold winter late afternoon, suffering withdrawal, slipping in and out of hallucinations and dreams as the cold sets in.

Rosy
Movie 2019

Rosy

An experimental short film about a girl's troubled relationship and dance which is her only escape from daily troubles.

Classical Period
1h 2m
Movie 2018

Classical Period

The members of a reading group exchange cultural and literary references with such vigor that there’s little room for anything else: an attempt to leave the modern world behind or merely their own solitary existences?

The Moon is Essentially Gray
0h 4m
Movie 2016

The Moon is Essentially Gray

“The Moon Is Essentially Gray” is a 3-minute CG animated short about a young child, her makeshift rocket, and her fantastic flight to the moon. The film explores the role escapism plays in the lives of children who suffer some form of neglect or abandonment by their caregivers. It is ultimately about the struggle to gain (or regain) personal power, joy, and freedom.

Broken
1h 38m
Movie 2016

Broken

A young female escapes her past and absconds to England in search of a new life. She takes a job caring for a tetraplegic, but burden of the job stirs up her past. It seems the limits of caring are not always as clear as they should be.

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