Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
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 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.
Every morning is the same morning: the alarm, then breakfast, then shower… And every morning the same desire, the same wish to break with everything for once. Today, everything is still the same but something has changed inside. Today may be the day.
Torn between the desire to protect his little brother in a violent world and the longing for the utopia of a queer community, Hector (23) embarks on a journey between reality and fantasy to reflect on his own experience of violence and to find closeness to his brother again.
Art being used as an escape from reality.
A person comes into contact with quietness.
In a grey asleep scenario, a young man embarks on a journey evading from time and space.
An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and her aspiring writer son.
An experimental short film that follows a man who arrives home alone during the holidays after a long day of work. Finding himself consumed by his loneliness he looks for a way to escape.
“The Moon Is Essentially Gray” is a 3-minute CG animated short about a young child, her makeshift rocket, and her fantastic flight to the moon. The film explores the role escapism plays in the lives of children who suffer some form of neglect or abandonment by their caregivers. It is ultimately about the struggle to gain (or regain) personal power, joy, and freedom.
The members of a reading group exchange cultural and literary references with such vigor that there’s little room for anything else: an attempt to leave the modern world behind or merely their own solitary existences?
Impression and interpretation: A film that relies on sensory techniques to tell a story about depression, alienation and ultimately loneliness.
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.
Suffering from addiction and homelessness, Abigail wanders the city on a cold winter late afternoon, suffering withdrawal, slipping in and out of hallucinations and dreams as the cold sets in.
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.
Two siblings go on an adventure to escape the reality of an unloving home.
An experimental short film about a girl's troubled relationship and dance which is her only escape from daily troubles.
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.