We don’t know how. We don’t know when. But death comes for us all. To be human is to wrestle with this truth and with the great unanswered question: How do we live with death in our eye? We can deny, we can rail, we can challenge, we can accept. What is our story, and will it sustain us at the end? “Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death,” a two-hour documentary, features men and women of uncommon eloquence and intelligence who are grappling with these questions. For them death is no longer an abstraction far off in the future, it is real. They come from all walks of life, all ages, dying and healthy, believers and unbelievers, well known and obscure. These are people who have been shocked into mortality and are forever changed. They have stories to tell, and we can listen and learn from them.

Dr. Egil Börne, an eminent physician, comes under the spell of an unscrupulous cabaret dancer and deserts his fiancée. The plot finds echoes throughout the Weimar period, including Sternberg’s The Blue Angel. Conrad Veidt appears in a supporting role as a sinister blind painter, whose entrance eerily presages Murnau’s Nosferatu. Der Gang in die Nacht, the earliest surviving film by F. W. Murnau, is also, paradoxically, the only Murnau film for which the original camera negative exists.

Working the lonely late shift, a gas station cashier shares a silly moment with a customer before being brought back to reality.

A wealthy businessman is murdered by his unfaithful wife and the secret lover, who conceal his body in the garden. After renting the villa, a bar manager and her boyfriend are plagued by strange occurrences and a series of gruesome murders.

Artemio is a photojournalist who portrays the murder of a sex worker he knows and begins a search to find the murderer.

Louisa, in her fifties, puts up missing person posters in search of her daughter, Souad. In a few shots, Fayçal Hammoum portrays a night of wandering through the streets of Algiers. The quest of his heroine—the magnificent Djalila Kadi Hanifi, her face lined by melancholy—underlines the profound divide between the generation of independence and the Algerian youth.

The common motif of two stories is love and death. In the first story, a drama of love and adultery takes place with a tragic ending. In the second story, the environment of hospital asylum and the constant presence of death makes two diabetics carefully watching over an unknown man in coma.

Krysia, a teenage girl, leaves her home for the first time in weeks. At a party, she runs into Majka. The two girls slip away and set off on a journey that proceeds at a dizzying pace.

Feith and Dallas, a married couple, are struck with news on their son’s sudden death. They are going to the morgue to recognise his remains. Meanwhile on the same road 17 years ago they find out that they might become parents. In a lonely gas tank they stop to meet themselves from 17 years ago and have no choice, they must confront their past and future.

Waymas works in a subway repair worshop in Mexico City, while Tony sells chicken in a marketplace in Guadalajara. Both were part of the September 23rd Communist League, the larger urban guerrilla group in Mexico during the 1970s. On January the 22nd of 1976, both escaped prison through an elaborated military plan. They recount how they escaped and why they were fighting for then and now.

Six musicians from São Paulo, Brazil, dream of being discovered at night, alternating days in precarious services and early mornings, seeking a path in the world of music

Lucía and Nico, the couple of the century, are about to say yes... although not with each other. It turns out that they both decided to get married on the same day and in the same place, but with other people.

The interconnected natural world is rendered newly tactile through stop-motion animation in Yoko Yuki’s transcendent tale of changing seasons.

Mira and Johnannes, two young teenagers, have to spend Walpurgis Night in the hospital. Without knowing each other from before, they flee together from the pediatric ward to Mira's hiding place at the swimming pool, where they play and discuss their illnesses. They spend the night at the pool edge and, in the morning, are no longer the same.

Set in Mindanao, young Faisal, after both his parents were killed due to a ransom kidnapping, carries a bag filled with dollars and attempts to elude soldiers with his 2 new companions Amrayda and Fatima who are also in need of safety as violence and turmoil escalates in their parea.

They Go Gentle Into That Night Work is a dreamlike essay revolving around a train driver, a metalworker, and a mailman’s average night. The nightfalls’s meditative and repetitive routines create a monotonous, yet simultaneously poetic atmosphere in this hypnotic experience. The slow-paced storytelling combined with the experimental soundscape paints a harsh, yet romantic, picture of the ever-revolving night lives of the trio.

Entre 1947 et 1951, plus de 80 000 hommes, femmes et enfants grecs ont été internés sur l’îlot de Makronissos (Grèce) dans des camps de rééducation destinés à lutter «contre l’expansion du communisme». Parmi ces déportés se trouvaient de nombreux écrivains et poètes, dont Yannis Ritsos et Tassos Livaditis. Malgré les privations et les tortures, ces exilés sont parvenus à écrire des poèmes qui décrivent leur (sur)vie dans cet univers concentrationnaire. Ces textes, pour certains enterrés dans le sol du camp, ont été retrouvés. «Comme des lions de pierre à l’entrée de la nuit» mêle ces écrits poétiques avec des discours de rééducation politique qui étaient diffusés en permanence dans les haut-parleurs des camps. De longs travellings, tels des mouvements hypnotiques, arpentent les ruines des camps et “se heurtent” aux archives photographiques. Un essai filmé qui ranime la mémoire de ruines oubliées et d’une bataille perdue.

Le sergent Lo se fait voler son arme un soir. Un officier de la Police Tactical Unit de Hong Kong, promet de l'aider avant la fin de la nuit, et part à sa recherche avec son équipe. En parallèle, Cato, le fils du chef d'une des triades, se fait assassiner et le père de ce dernier croit que l'assassin de son fils n'est autre qu'un membre d'une triade rivale. Il est plus de minuit et la nuit ne fait que commencer pour tout le monde...

Freely inspired by the life of the actress Sandra Mozarowsky, who died in 1977 when she fell from the terrace of her house in Madrid, the story will focus on the day before the accident, in which loneliness, fear and anguish in the face of a situation desperate mix with his dreams and ambitions.

« Vous êtes peut-être dans un jeu, mais vous n'êtes pas là pour jouer. »

Un mois a passé depuis que Sword Art Online, le tout premier MMORPG en réalité virtuelle, a été coupé du monde. Pour dix mille joueurs, toute mort en jeu entraîne inévitablement un décès dans le monde réel. Après avoir terminé le premier palier, Asuna et Kirito continuent l'aventure ensemble, un seul objectif en ligne de mire : vaincre le boss du dernier palier et en finir avec ce jeu macabre. La conquête du château progresse tranquillement grâce à l'aide précieuse d'Argo, une indic, mais un nouveau péril menace les joueurs.