Una familia pone rumbo a una remota y paradisiaca playa para pasar un día de vacaciones. El lugar se encuentra en un recóndito paraje y esconde algo que está a punto de cambiarle la vida a todos y cada uno de los presentes. A medida que pasan las horas, cada uno de ellos irá envejeciendo más y más, hasta el punto de que su vida se verá reducida a ese día.
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.
2038: George Almore está trabajando en una verdadera IA equivalente a la humana. Su último prototipo está casi listo. Esta fase sensible también es la más arriesgada. Especialmente porque tiene un objetivo que debe ocultarse a toda costa: reunirse con su esposa muerta
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. Against this dystopian backdrop, a dying man seeks to ensure the future well-being of his family, while coping with what it means to be human in this new reality.
A fines del siglo XIX, en una región inhóspita, viven el granjero Ohlsdorffer y su hija. Su supervivencia depende de un viejo y demacrado caballo, con el que Ohlsdorffer trabaja como cochero en la ciudad. Un día, el caballo se niega a salir del cobertizo. Los granjeros mantienen, sin embargo, su limitada rutina diaria: levantarse con el sol, ir por agua al pozo, cortar leña, comer una papa hervida, acostarse con la llegada de la noche... Ohlsdorffer, tullido de un brazo, necesita de su hija para vestirse y desvestirse. El caballo ya no quiere comer ni beber. Pasa un grupo de gitanos cuyo destino es América. Un vecino relata las desgracias que están ocurriendo en la ciudad. El pozo se seca y Ohlsdorffer y su hija intentan infructuosamente dejar el lugar. Se hace la noche. El fuego ya no quiere encenderse.
Bridgette is an aspiring actress who teaches aerobics at a local gym that's run by the womanizing Adam. After a tryst with Adam, Bridgette scores a role in a big play, but then learns that a former boyfriend is dying of AIDS. While preparing to get tested, Bridgette suspects Adam of cheating on her, and must face the HIV tests alone, which shockingly come back positive. Building a support network, including a penitent Adam, Bridgette faces her own mortality.
On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn". As the film plays, the lives of the theater's various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors arrive to mourn the passing of an era.
When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortality. Convinced that all his aches and pains are an indication of his imminent death, Ray's life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria.
An aging 80 year old drag queen forms an unlikely friendship with a younger queen, both struggling with their own issues of gender identity and mortality. As they discover more about each other, they realize how to truly be themselves.
Tragedy sends a young woman on a voyage through the wilderness of death and time.
A photographer awaits competition results while he wanders around Hong Kong across space and time, pondering his own relationship with love and death.
A young girl’s moral compass and perspective on mortality are challenged when she tries to save a brutally wounded rabbit.
How do we live, knowing we are going to die? In search of answers, we probed the minds of atheists, Buddhists, Jews, Christians, physicians, philosophers, authors, academics, a legendary stand-up comic, and scores of random pedestrians.
Arthur, a young boy with a wild imagination, develops a preoccupation with death and disease and begins to explore mortality in the vivid images he sees in the movies and through a strange visitor from the past.
When a young woman realises she is going to die soon, she calls up her two old friends to helper her make the most of the time left, while giving them the wake up call they need all at once.
A girl meets the goddess of love.
This gentle tale about mortality works in subliminal ways. When an old man is visited by Death at his home in the meadows, he has to delve deep to secure more time for himself. Does he have the strength to find the answers he needs? Can we negotiate our time on earth? How do we reconcile our mortal fate? A lyrical look at a reality as old as humanity, yet as young as today. Based on a story by Richard Kennedy.
An experimental study of nature through three stories and how we have destroyed it.
The man sneezes and dies.