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.
Bisera spends the day waiting for her sweetheart Ognyan the Zmei to arrive and ask for her hand in marriage.
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.
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 delirious man wakes up in a mysterious room, he begins to discover that this reality is not what it seems.
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.
A young man recalls different moments of his life, reflecting the preservation of memory, the enigma of time and the inevitability of death
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.
A short day in the life of a child living in poverty.
This film explores the lives of those men and the memories of those left behind: the childhoods they shared and the choices they made. These men, now in their 60s, reflect on what has happened to their generation, why most of their friends and relatives died so young and how this particular apartment block captures the story of a whole generation. The voices and lives of the departed are included in clips from amateur videos from the 1990s. Set against the background of old friends’ attempt to understand their deaths, this film is about nostalgia and how memories kindle a special kind of love for home.
An old man, named Cipriano, is about to die. He spent his whole life tormented by dreams and now he is lost inside one of them. His sons, Bigail and Vicente, are searching for a cemetery by the sea, where he should be buried. Life and death. Short stories, dreams and religions. A trip into the imaginary through a lengthy peregrination along the dry lands.
"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.