Sam is a 19-year-old artist drifting through post-high school adolescence in a drug-fuelled haze, doing anything to avoid actually painting. Her art used to bring her joy, but now it wants her to destroy herself. So she does. As her insecurity spirals into a surreal nightmare, Sam's mother Penelope loses patience with her daughter's tumultuous lifestyle and gives her an ultimatum.
After her release from involuntary hospitalization, “Annie” grapples with the trauma of her confinement, all while working as a lifeguard, a job that becomes increasingly challenging as she descends deeper into despair.
A recently widowed single mother, struggling to raise her depressed son alone, finds hope when her son’s best friend asks him out.
Charlotte is an alcoholic trying to complete her first year of sobriety. One evening, when the urge to drink is so strong that she fears a relapse, Charlotte goes to see her sponsor, Jeanne, an alcoholic who has been sober for over five years. However, when Charlotte arrives at Jeanne's, she finds her sponsor in a state of drunkenness. With the roles of helper and cared-for now reversed, Charlotte decides to step in.
Life is liberty in a cage. "Cage" represents a situation filled with constraints, a habit, or an addiction that is hard to get rid of. This project is to present a Chinese cultural and traditional visual style to audiences. On the other hand, "Cage" tries to inspire them to recall their memory and consider what the meaning of life is to them individually.
Yuna, a young girl struggling with a growing addiction to sleeping medication starts to see a reoccurring figure in her dreams.
This short, started early on into sobriety, finished about nine months in, is a collage of diaries and notes, collected from within addiction and into recovery.
Documentary about living with an addict and grappling with the genetic propensity of becoming one.
"Fag End" is an astute representation of the metaphorical death of a mother. The movie revolves around a girl named 'Tania', a victim of smoking and alcohol abuse, going through the process of In vitro fertilization. When it comes to alcohol and smoking, an abuser is overlapped with the tendencies of both alcoholism and chain smoking wherein one is subjected to intense cravings, followed by untoward mental as well as physical detention. Things go downhill one morning, as she relapsed the night before and she suffers a miscarriage. Does it not leave us with the raucous screams of the unborn?
In a gray and monotonous neighborhood, two very different brothers share a house where time seems to have stopped. Tomás, a young man with no aspirations, is immersed in his addiction to sports betting. His older brother, Frank, a grown-up young man with deep-rooted values, is dragged into this whirlwind of vices when he tries to help his brother.
A Paiute woman enters a Las Vegas casino in 1980, triggering strange happenings. The addicted in-house comedian counsels eccentric patrons and must make a pivotal choice.
A documentary following an Appalachian family’s struggle with opioid addiction over several years.
In a post-apocalyptic world, a young man, driven by greed and risking his survival, crosses paths with the force of nature, which administers justice in its own way.
A lapsed alcoholic seeks help from someone he once helped get sober.
Mason is trying to get clean and improve his life for the better, but is held down by his old friend, Zim
On a road trip with her younger sister, Charlie struggles to hide a secret addiction.
A struggling football player tries to hold on to his passion for the sport after suffering a detrimental injury to his calf.
Mark wakes up and does not remember what he did the previous evening and must confront the darkest parts of himself through looking at the physical evidence around his house.
A psychological thriller about a mysterious rug threatening to tear a superstitious family apart.