At Cirque de Mortel, the circus artists perform thrilling acts where their lives are constantly put on the line. One day, Death arrives to finally bring them all down to the Underworld. However, he is met by the clown Mortel, who brings him inside the circus and shows him the performance of a lifetime.
What happens to the homeless when they die? The Potter's Field documentary follows a group of high school students who attempt to give a little dignity, in death, to those who were stripped of it in life.
When Mortimer is sent to claim the souls of pets as an intern for Death Inc. things go terribly wrong when his case is stolen, and he has to fix the mistakes he made.
A boy receives a shocking text about his girlfriend. Inspired by Hwang Sun-won's 1952 novel "Rain Shower".
Alan aspires to be a human popsicle... literally. For this film is about the weird and wacky world of cryonics. Instead of burial or cremation get yourself put in a freezer, wait a few hundred years, get defrosted and off you go. Just keep your fingers crossed there's not a power cut.
Early Grief Special takes place in a greasy spoon. It is the only place in London where people are allowed to grieve. Its purpose is to push bereaved people to feel better and move on quickly. A new customer arrives for their first meal, the Early Grief Special. They feel lost, alone and scared. Not wanting to face death and grief leads to the experience being even more strange and unsettling.
Bisera spends the day waiting for her sweetheart Ognyan the Zmei to arrive and ask for her hand in marriage.
Abel doesn't leave his room for 20 years. After the accident, he confined himself to the cloister and his instincts, creating a routine. However, it is when the person who ensures his survival ceases to appear, finishing the food and the drink, that he ends up leaving the alienated state in which he is. Abel goes out to the unknown in order to satisfy his addiction. Without knowing it, he is approaching the abyss.
Author's vision of "life after life". The man for whom death comes with a scythe is taken to the hospital. With the help of complicated equipment, he undergoes resuscitation procedures.
A short day in the life of a child living in poverty.
"Prelude to an Announced Death" (5', 1991) is the artist's final work, completed shortly before his demise. It is one of the rare moments in which França's work in video assumes a quasi-documentary character. Set against a dramatic rendition of "La Traviata" by Brazilian singer Bidu Sayão, the artist's body touches that of his partner, Geraldo Rivello, as the names of all their friends killed by AIDS scroll across the screen above them.
A student is about to move on to the next phase of his life when an incident draws him into the unknown.
Ulga, Jimmy, and Simon, haven't seen Gerald in a while. They look for him in the woods. What they find dosen't make sense.
34-year-old Melanie lives with the knowledge she will die within 10 years due to autoimmune disease. Having survived a near fatal operation, Melanie escapes the stresses of city life to search for her ideal home… but it’s not as easy as that.
A story about lost love
A photographer during the Soviet-Afghan war becomes obsessed with a mysterious figure that appears in his images every time the person photographed dies.
A delirious man wakes up in a mysterious room, he begins to discover that this reality is not what it seems.