
A Critical Companion to Earth Bound
Experimental essay filmmaker Archagent Everlasting explores Shigesato Itoi's RPG dreams of rural America, and alongside her a fictional narrative about a cow and a dragon ambles by.
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Experimental essay filmmaker Archagent Everlasting explores Shigesato Itoi's RPG dreams of rural America, and alongside her a fictional narrative about a cow and a dragon ambles by.

Pious girl Paraskeva became Saint after spending 40 years of her life in Jordan desert fighting temptations, sins and inner demons.

Jiawei finds a mysterious vial in her late mother's fridge that transforms her into their ancestors and descendants.

Loïc spends the night at the home of Andréa, an attractive fashion designer ten years his senior, whom he met on an app. But during the course of the evening, he discovers a strange half-human creature that the designer is breeding in his workshop, in search of the perfect body. The young boy feels trapped.

Following a devastating injury, a young dancer enters a mysterious realm where three enigmatic dancers force her to confront the fears keeping her from the stage.

The nocturnal walk of a man obsessed with his imagination.

A dance from reality into a surreal valley of imagination.


After discovering a dark window which appears on the wall every midnight two boys decide to investigate the mystery of a dark room behind the window.

A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
A brother and sister, separated by a tragic event, reunite at a crime scene, reviving a violent past. Their unbreakable bond is repeatedly tested, turning their lives into an ancient fairy tale with no happy ending.

Set in four parallel worlds, with four parallel Londons ruled by different magical powers and monarchies. There’s Grey London, where the people have been told that magic is a myth; Red London, where magic is embraced and thrives; White London, where magic is used by the rulers against it’s people; and Black London, where magic has overpowered the people and corrupted the world beyond repair.

A troubled young man spends a night in town with an animated girl.

Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.

A sultan agrees to help an evil witch destroy a mysterious beauty if the witch will bring his young son back to life. A lost film.

Football games, fights between mosters and explosions, everything that happens in a normal day in Athens.

After beach plans for Michael and Amy's family are ruined, Barney takes the Backyard Gang to the beach. They play in the sand, explore a pirate ship, and meet a mermaid.

Death encounters three lost souls and tries to help them on their journey into the afterlife.

Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions, an adaption of Goethe’s “Faust” presented with a non-synchronous soundtrack and superimposed over a remake of Super Fly (1972). Often out of focus with an overactive camera, the film immediately exudes nervous energy, but unlike Priest’s elegant cocaine consumption in Super Fly, Willie’s arm gushes blood as he injects heroin. A morality tale in two reels. —Jan-Christopher Horak

A man is murdered on a bus for trying to stop a pickpocket; no one lifts a finger to help him. He returns as a ghost and questions the empathy of the onlookers.
A dangerous school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death. There are no teachers, no holidays, friendships are purely strategic, and the odds of survival are never equal. Once you’re inside, there are only two ways out: you graduate or you die. El Higgins is uniquely prepared for the school’s many dangers. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out untold millions – never mind easily destroy the countless monsters that prowl the school. Except, she might accidentally kill all the other students, too

The last moments of a dying man.

Jai Faustus, an overworked associate at Underworld Enterprises, finds himself face to face with his toughest client yet, Lillian Reithwin, the entitled and morally bankrupt corporate lawyer who storms in mere moments after the office closes. Desperate to protect her spotless legal record, Lillian demands a deal, but her outrageous requests leave Jai in a professional and moral dilemma. As Lillian's shenanigans ensue, he finds himself wondering which of the two is the real devil.

All this unlucky guy wanted was to make a no-budget film. But everything went wrong. Actors quit and there isn't even a camera anymore. He finds an envelope in his postbox which contains a letter and a black pill. The anonymous sender writes that the addressee left the black pill at his place and then wishes him goodbye forever. Our unlucky guy needs some drinks. As he is leaving the flat he contemplates the black pill sitting on the table. In a split second he swallows it down. He finally leaves the house, but what is now happening? Could it be that this will be his last night on earth? What about these fragments and visions that seem to be connected in some way to his failed film project?