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

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.

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...

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.

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.

After losing his father, A teenager struggles with his journey to manhood while dealing with his mother's abusive boyfriend.

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.

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. Locking herself away from the real world, she invites in a darker one.

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 girl wakes up alone on a surreal night, with a moth emerging from the TV set guiding her to explore the darkened room. Through a series of emotional flashbacks, she gradually recalls fragmented memories of neglect by her caregivers.

A short film about grief and loss.

Denied mobility and decision-making power, the metaphorical and physical cocoon embodies political depression.

A short film.

The short film has a mixed media experimental approach about breathing and Earth's atmosphere, and the story of our deep interdependence with the living world. Through our breath, we are intimately linked to those who lived in the deep past and in the future.

San and Mayu are two schoolgirls living in Okinawa during the closing months of the Pacific War. Together with their classmates, the two friends are drafted into the war effort as nurses for wounded soldiers. When ordered to die for their country, the remaining members of the group escape only to face the harsh environment of a tropical paradise that has become a hellish battlefield.

Having a best friend is rather tricky. Ben Sarjono must do all of those so his friendship can emerge beautifully from its cocoon.

In the underground Diamond Domain, where many Carbink live, the Mythical Pokémon Diancie serves as ruler. The Heart Diamond that sustains the land is beginning to fall apart, and Diancie is not yet strong enough to create a new one. While seeking help from the Legendary Pokémon Xerneas, Diancie encounters a group of thieves who want to take control of its diamond-producing power–and who awaken the Legendary Pokémon Yveltal from its cocoon in the process! Can Ash and his friends help Diancie discover its true power, stop Yveltal’s rampage, and save the Diamond Domain?

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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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