The Yearning

Two lonely people notice each other. A yearning so big it might destroy me. It has always been there and always will be. Walk, walk up that hill. Climb, climb up that train.

Xanten Rain

Hayden, a once famous writer, lives a life of quiet solitude; despite being cut-off from the rest of the world, he continues to write new stories with the help of an A.I assistant named Kris

Sleeping with Ghosts

A seemingly ideal relationship is revealed to be far from perfect once star-gazer lover, Kai, encounters an unexpected glimpse of reality.

História do Amor

After the sudden break up of a relationship, a young man tries to make a film using the images of his ex-girlfriend that he had on his camera.

The Left-Handed Woman

Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to develop for them.

Fade

Arthur Dichter thinks he is dying of insomnia, but the reality is much more frightening. In this surreal puzzle film, Dichter turns from his wife to a private journal to record his deepest fears. Anna knows her husband lives in a waking nightmare where delusions and reality blend, but is powerless to help him. As Arthur's disease gives way to despair, loneliness, and alienation, he and Anna hang onto their last shred of hope. This atmospheric film explores personal identity, marital discord, and contemporary life, turning narrative and chronology inside out to find the darkest corners of the human spirit. With music from avant-garde legends AMM, Art Bears, and Stephen O'Malley's Ginnungagap.

The Man And His Bird

The film is about terrible life of a common man

The Girl from the Wardrobe

This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage.

The Skywalk Is Gone

A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.

Krapp's Last Tape

A 69 year old man sits alone on his last birthday and listens to the past. KRAPPS LAST TAPE is an extraordinary study of mortality, creativity and memory.

The Invisible Life

There is a long night when Hugo, a civil servant, is sitting on the stairs of the Ministry where he works. He can’t face going home. The images of the mysterious 8 mm films he found in António’s house after he passed away keep coming back to his mind. Hugo remembers the day when Antonio, his superior at the Ministry, told him that he was going to die. Indirectly, Antonio seemed to want to tell him something about Hugo himself. Hugo’s desire to understand what had remained unsaid between the two of them, triggers other memories from the past. Hugo unexpectedly thinks back on the last time he saw the woman he loved, Adriana, and relives once more what he feels has been his unlived life.

Cocoon

Reality unravels when Cora suffers a mental breakdown at university. Locking herself away from the real world, she invites in a darker one.

bitforbeat

After a one-night stand, a writer and an actor navigate the hazy terrain between connection, ambition, and commitment.

Suzie

Suzie, a 58 year old depressed taxi driver on the night shift. On Halloween, she finds a 10 year old autistic boy in the back seat of her taxi with 50$ and an address. As Suzie arrived at the father's address, she realizes the mess this family is in. This child and her own troubled past lead her down a surprising road.

Novena

Two men bond as one recovers from an attack and the other deals with the impending death of his grandmother.

Synonymous With

A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.

The Cold Tears

Someone to Talk To

An adaptation of Liu Zhenyun’s award-winning novel One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand, produced by Bill Kong. The novel, which won the Mao Dun Literature Prize after it was published in 2008, revolves around a divorced woman and her married younger brother and deals with loneliness and alienation in contemporary Chinese society. The film marks the feature debut of award-winning short filmmaker Liu Yulin, who is adapting her father’s work. A New York University film graduate, Liu’s short film Door God (2014) won a silver medal at the 41st Student Academy Awards and was selected by Cannes.

The Loneliest Boy On Earth

A groundbreaking hyper-meta documentary psychodrama that centers on Cameron Smith's introspective journey through his greatest vulnerability: love, romance, and his relationship with women. As the filmmaker turns the camera on himself, the story evolves into a raw, unsettling, and unflinchingly honest glimpse into the modern "loneliness epidemic". Through an act of psychological crucifixion, Cameron simultaneously holds up a mirror to society's own struggles with isolation and connection.

Stranger by the Lake

Frank spends his summer days hopelessly searching for companionship at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a lake in rural France. One day, he meets Michel, an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love.