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A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.

A group of friends uncover an otherworldly object in a rural field, which they soon discover holds greater secrets than they could imagine.

A newlywed couple Ted and Lauren rent an old farm house to do a thesis on orbs and set up cameras, Strange ghostly noises and haunting occur at night. Ted sees video of Lauren, possessed and wandering the fields at night. When their roommate kills himself they decide to do a séance to see what is haunting the house. Little do they know what they hear and fear is nothing they can pray away.

The stop-motion animation is about a mischief boy adventuring in an unknown house and getting caught by the owner who lost her grandson in a car accident years ago. The intruder feels the grandma's sorrow, and tries to help her find peace of mind. The setting is based on the architecture of Suzhou, a historical water-town in Southern China.

A woman is questioned by a mysterious man after the sudden disappearance of her brother to describe her encounter with an otherworldly phenomena she cannot explain…

Encounter is the story of a missing cat, an unhappy teenager, a lonely little girl, a single mum and a tramp. The tramp, invited by the little girl, comes into the family home at Christmas time and has an effect on each one of them. He has a surprising gentleness and wisdom that works to soften relationships between mother and daughters. And of course he has his own stories to tell, which unfold as the story develops.

A boy and girl, a hot July day, a railway station, an encounter.

Nella lives an extremely work-oriented life. It may have started as a dream career, but now it is taking the best of her. Her career stress, along with anti-anxiety pills and isolation, is eating into her mind and numbing her to life itself. One day, while on her way from one workplace to another, her tightly-scheduled life is shattered by a special encounter. Such an encounter triggers an explosion of emotions and sets all the dormant demons to ricochet inside her head. On the same sleepless night, she takes drastic measures.

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970.

A young man crossing the park receives a strange proposition from an even stranger man. When he is unable to connect with his friends he reconsiders the offer.

A metaphorical, coming-of-age story about a girl’s journey towards freedom and reclaiming her own voice. Written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Arctic Qu, Encounter presents a mysterious, dreamlike other-world where every element in this surrealistic adventure points at, dissects, and deconstructs the worldly reality we live by.

Two medieval knights defend their world when aliens arrive.

After college, Via, who was sick met a man who took her home. However, Via did not know who the man was, so the next day she and her friends decided to find out who the man was.

Two disillusioned people have an encounter in a bar which may change the way they view their places in life.

Sci-fi short film featuring Karen Boles as Cassie Martin, Chris Cashon as Brodie Martin, and Wofford Jones as an alien.

A biker stops to investigate something on the side of the road. Entry in the Four4 Very Short Horror Filmi Competition, 2013.

A voice draws two destined individuals together for a showdown, awakening 1/12-scale statues of the Nu Gundam and Sazabi, leading to a fierce battle inside the mall.

"Big Guts" Cheung, a man well known in his local village for his lack of fear, is put to the test after being tricked into spending the night in a temple full of spirits, zombies, and vampires.

Amuro Ray and the rest of the White Base crew, now denominated the 13th Autonomous Corps, return to outer space to support the rest of the Earth Federation forces for the decisive battle against the Principality of Zeon's forces.

The Earthship ISS Galant Fox, while heading back home to earth, encounters an alien spacecraft adrift in deep space. When efforts to establish communication fail, the crew boards the mysterious ship. Their discovery of it's inhabitants, a crew of alien creatures locked in a defective suspended animation system, sparks fierce disagreements among the crew over whether or not to resuscitate the aliens.

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

On the hunt for an emotional spark, Fynn sets out to lose himself in various sexual encounters of the night. As day is dawning he stumbles across young Tom, but by this point he wonders if he is still in control of his bodily impulses.

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a plan; it involves an anonymous hotel room, and a sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.

Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets Koichiro Hasegawa. He is the successor of the Hasegawa family. His family is wealthy and is respected in the area. Natsume Mochizuki and Koichiro Hasegawa become attracted to each other, but something changes their fate.

An unexpected love triangle, a seduction trap, and a random encounter are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.

Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge a connection with her stepson William and to resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife.

After a brief encounter with David Hammond, an old college friend, successful lawyer Ellie Warren tries to mend her marriage with her husband Marcus. But she finds herself caught in a terrifying game of cat and mouse when the encounter escalates into an obsession that jeopardizes everyone she loves.

Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

After decades of single-minded dedication to his work, a worker with an elite career course at a major bank is transferred or rather relegated to a subsidiary company, where he finds himself at a loos as he reaches retirement age.

Frustrated by the lack of intimacy in her relationship, a young schoolteacher goes through a series of intimidating and often violent sexual partners.

A gripping chronicle of three couples over the course of one fateful night in an LA restaurant named Collide. Hunter finds himself on an awkward blind date with the captivating Tamira, while a busboy and his waitress girlfriend hope to score a big payday, and outside, Peter sits in his car observing his wife Angie meet with the restaurant’s manager. Though all strangers, their stories are weaved together as they hurl towards an explosive end.

Ryoko becomes a reporter for a major newspaper after receiving a master's degree from Tokyo University's graduate program. While concealing her adult video acting experience during her university days, she spends her evenings frequenting "host clubs" with her friend. At the same time, she is in a stimulating relationship with boyfriend Rei. Ryoko seeks emotional balance, and despite feeling the contradiction between her day and night lifestyle, hopes to gain happiness in her life.

Depressed and suicidal, thirtysomething bachelor Duncan – determined to find the secret to a healthy, strong relationship, – flashes back to his last five relationships (in the last four years) and considers what caused each one to fail. Based on the novel 'Essays in Love' by Alain de Botton.

In the early 1960s, an interracial couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were abducted by extraterrestrials.

Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls' bar. Shinji is blind in one eye and ekes out a living as a construction worker. Young and grown-up at the same time, they both lead a lonely existence, but somehow their paths keep miraculously crossing under the Tokyo sky.

A sought-after Supercop gets caught in a series of unexpected events when he encounters a suspect who is accused of being involved in a murder case.

Egypt, the cradle of history and culture traces its beginning to life developed along the banks of the Nile.