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A dreamy girl lives on her unusual favorite places.

On their way home from a party „The Escapist“ is haunted by what they are tying to flee from. After they’ve arrived at home they are overpowerd by the unavoidable.

A young man tries to escape the horrors of his at home reality through video games

Gan Escapism is an experimental short film by Ukrainian-born artist Anna Malina. The film was crafted using a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to create a unique and captivating visual experience that blends abstract illustrations and evading sounds to create a surreal and thought-provoking piece of art.

Two old friends, one has become a mother, while the other has advanced in her career, reunite after a long time. They look at each other and compare what they have missed in life and there is no winner.

Honorably discharged veteran Guy Friendly anticipates his friend Todd's arrival, so they can enjoy a nostalgic Man-Man and the Sorcerers of Destiny cartoon. But as he's waiting for Todd, his prized Man-Man toy collection seems to move of their own accord--with deadly intentions. Can Guy navigate memories of past horrors and truly become victorious?

Johnny Hawkins gets pulled into a book in Kaleb Sierra's masterpiece

A girl falling in love with a boy from her college, but is their relationship actually all in her imagination?

A beautiful place, the same old place. Shapes of blues and greens flow with grace, a feast of rêverie for the eye. Wind, water, sun, light, the world dances with the mind. Peace and melancholy sing as everything flows and goes. Choking on comfort, locked in this world, one can simply waltz with their thoughts. In this ballad of wonders, there's only one way in and no way out. Fragmenting reality, the hues twirl along with the music. This could go on forever. This is the mind's favorite game. No resisting. Now diving into escapism.

A man is trapped in his own home by a mysterious entity who wont let him leave.

A study in escapism through nature.

A middle-aged doctor and his young assistant are both smitten with a girl. The girl likes the doctor's assistant, but the doctor, who is deeply in love with the girl, sends the assistant away on some pretext. He then gets closer to the girl and, with the support of her parents, marries her. They have a peaceful life until the assistant returns and the truth comes out. After a series of events, it's ultimately the doctor who steps aside.

The Hitman "Zion" has seemly escaped from the experiments that had been done on him, but as usual, something else is going on...

How Min Thek, who grew up with psychological trauma from childhood under the domination of his grandmother, a former actress, and his family found his liberation...

When everything seems impossible, Alex, a screenwriter, goes on a journey inside his head in search for inspiration and self discovery.

Centres around a young man on an epic nightly odyssey through lights and colours - embodying the emotional experience of seeing a resonant film in theatres

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A portrait of childhood and the atempt to escape reality.

In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions begin to arise about why the show sometimes seems more real than their own lives. In the pale glow of the television, their view of reality begins to crack.

A young divorcee travels to O'ahu in search of reinvention.

James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny, who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings.

A young artist named Toma begins to feel that his life in Belgrade begins suffocating him, so he sneaks aboard a cargo ship and travels down the Danube, eventually settling on a small island where ha can continue to work on his nature-inspired artworks in peace. Along the way, he meets a number of different characters representing various social groups that call 1950s Belgrade their home.

A noblewoman's exile leads her twin to assume her identity in a plague-sealed medieval kingdom. As she navigates deadly court intrigue with her daughter, she questions whether safety behind castle walls is worth the price of brutality.

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.

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

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An isolated young black man leaves reality behind to become a giant Octopus.

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.

Haunted by his past, a man retreats to a sailboat anchored in the middle of a vast lake, where he lives in self-imposed isolation. But his solitude is shattered when an unexpected visitor arrives.

When the time comes, Masayuki confronts oblivion with the help of a mysterious stranger. Aimlessly wandering the streets, drinking and gambling alone, Masayuki passes through each night without purpose. Until he meets a stranger, who will free him at last.

Harvest One follows a group of 4 friends as they fight their way through tough battles and strange adventures

A burnt-out white-collar worker stumbles upon a plastic bag in a bustling city. As suffocation drags him out of an anxiety attack toward fleeting peace, an unexpected encounter offers something more than a breath of relief.

After a shift at a refinery, four coworkers decide to go out and get drinks. After stopping at a gas station for supplies, they head to the riverfront, where they split into two journeys. Raul and Thom descend deeper into the river's towering industrial wasteland, while Robert and Michael slowly drink themselves stupid. When the two pairs reunite, a final clash of priorities emerges: some want to go home, while others cannot face returning to the routine waiting for them.

A young office worker in his twenties seeks a connection to reality in his life, trying to follow the most famous Estonian graffiti text, but gets into psychedelic mischief due to coincidences, misunderstandings, and bad advisors.

Benny is haunted by guilt after his fiance dies in a car accident. In his spiral, he reconnects with Kam, a troubled childhood friend who pulls him into robbery and fraud, a desperate plan to flee to Mexico and leave their lives behind.

Trapped in his nostalgia and haunted by the impermanence of things, a sad little ghost is unable to pass through the liminal space he occupies.

A young girl runs away from her home, her parents' incessant fighting, and everything she’s ever known. Accompanied by her best friend, Alma, and her favorite stuffed animal, Bunny, Ellamia sets out to find a new home in the woods. Here is where she meets two very unlikely beings, Oren and Malka, woodland fairies who show her what love looks like and make her feel seen and safe.