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Mark and Emma live a peaceful life together in the suburbs with him bringing in money for them to live comfortably. But under a government that is seen as less than desired, how long can their perfect life last before danger comes their way?

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

In the heat of a shimmering Berlin summer, Nora spends her days as a third wheel to her older sister Jule and her best friend Aylin. When Romy comes onto the scene, a friendship blossoms. Nora instantly falls for her, opening up a whole new world and unexpected summer of love.

Inspired by Edogawa Ranpo’s novel, A Brute’s Love. The visual direction of this film is heavily influenced by Salvador Dalí, along with lots of other painters the director admired over the years. In many ways, this film is a reflection of personal artistic evolution.

In this pilot film to the "Hawaii Five-0" television series, special law officer Steve McGarrett tracks down Red Chinese operatives and their spy ring in Honolulu.

The life of a hypochondriacal Internet musician takes a turn for the worse after an unexpected reunion with a childhood best friend runs parallel to a wave of mass killings.

The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?

When puberty hits the 14-year-old Sonny Kruger, he starts looking at his attractive classmate Coco in a different way. Too shy to ever stand a chance with her, he starts doubting his own masculinity. Sonny’s macho father Bero, his attractive sister Kimberly and bullying classmate Nigel, all contribute to his confusion and frustration. With the help of his best friend Ferdi and the things he sees in nature that inspire him, he eventually does have the courage to approach Coco.

San and Mayu attend an all-girls school on a warm and tranquil island. When war reaches their shores, they are ordered to help nurse the wounded in a military hospital hidden away in a cave. Amidst escalating death and brutality, the friends struggle to find solace in their fragile lives.

Hyun-sook pressures her anxious daughter to greet her strict grandmother for Lunar New Year, but when her daughter, Jisoo cannot speak, she must choose between punishment or defying generational expectations.

A medium leads a lost soul to the after life. However, she doesn't seem to know that she's dead...

This film explores cymatics and telepathy among twins

Blue Cocoon follows the story of Cynthia, a woman who lives alone, isolated from the outside world. Her day-to-day routine involves listening to an old grammar phone and the catching and killing of butterflies in vicious traps that hang from her window. One day, this routine is disrupted as a curious young girl enters her garden unexpectedly. Cynthia is besotted by the girls’ grace, youth and beauty and in her deranged, intoxicated state, decides to kidnap her using the chloroform that she uses on her butterflies, and on herself recreationally.

After receiving a gift from a mysterious stranger, a 7-year-old boy begins collecting small, delicate objects, retreating into the quiet sanctuary of his bedroom, his cocoon.

Zeynep, and her sick mother live alone in a rural area. They have no relatives or neighbours. They spend their days taking care of each other, their hens and plants in the garden. The electrician is the only person from the outside world that Zeynep communicates with, and he just drops by once a month. When Zeynep learns that he is appointed to another city, she has to choose between him and her mother.

The film Cocoon documents the early months of the pandemic told through the perspective of students, ages 4 to 17, living in their homes in Portland, Oregon. The film explores students' varying points of view about the pandemic on issues including job loss, health concerns, and school changes. As students express their fears and insecurities, they also share what they have come to appreciate and what they miss the most—their friends and human connection.

This unusual short was made while the director was at U.S.C., prior to returning to his native Iran, where he made a few feature films before his untimely death at the age of 48. Cocoon follows a frustrated young black dishwasher who visits adult bookstores and lives a lonely, meager existence. Filmed against a particularly sleazy (and hippie-filled) late-1960s Hollywood. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called Cocoon "one of the finest serious short films ever made, right up there with Roman Polanski's Two Men and a Wardrobe."

A family’s life is shattered when an unstable stranger, Viktor, invades their home, holding them hostage within their own home. Viktor torments the family by forcing them to role play as his own family, twisting the dynamics to fit the image of his own picturesque family life. As the family struggle to find a way to break free from their imprisonment, the unsettling motives behind Viktor’s presence gradually unfold.

A young man with ambiguous gender perception channels his metamorphosis through the enlightenment of Madame Butterfly Cio-Cio-San.

Reality unravels when Cora suffers a mental breakdown at university.

In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.

Maggie must navigate an eventful first day in daycare. At the Ayn Rand School for Tots, Maggie is diagnosed with average intelligence. Barred from the gifted children, she longs to escape from her glue-guzzling classmates. But when a lonely caterpillar befriends her, she makes it her mission to save it from a ruthless butterfly smashing toddler.

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.

In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college essay. Caught in the virtual images and the comfort of her bedroom, going out is harder than expected.

On his 18th birthday, Jesse cocoons himself inside his coastal family home, reminiscing about bittersweet childhood memories with his siblings. But as his older sister and brother vanish from sight, Jesse struggles to find his wings and fly away from a place so haunted by memory.

Documentary on the different stages in the development from caterpillar to butterfly.

François, Renée, Gisèle, Sylvain. These seniors do not have much in common, but their lives have been shaped by episodes of abandonment, rejection, or fear. Some still live in invisibility, afraid of how others will look at them. Loneliness weighs heavily. For others, living with HIV has worn down their bodies, and old age arrives more quickly. Then there is a hope: that of a house in Lyon where they will finally be able to be themselves. A place where it will be possible to grow old without ever having to hide again. There is that family we choose for ourselves. The feeling that a new chapter is opening—the last one—filled with promise, and with the boldness of all those first times we finally allow ourselves, so late in life. But when it comes to becoming visible, the fears accumulated over a lifetime are never far away. And they come to pull our courageous dreamers back from their dream: should they take the leap?

A story about a caterpillar undergoing metaphorphosis in a too-small cocoon.

On the lookout for polar bears in the Arctic, a wildlife photographer realizes she may have missed more than a shot.

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