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Strap yourself in for an exhilarating journey into darkness with these five award-winning short films from across the globe that delve into heart-pumping escapades varying from the intensely erotic to the ultra-violent to the warm-inside feels. The night has never looked so inviting. Segments: After Dawn [Passée l'aube] (2017), Poof (2018), Spiral (2018), Night of Love (2018), Floating Melon [浮果] (2015).
Yonatan abandons the army in an attempt to reunite with his ex-boyfriend. After it turns into a failure, he finds himself alone in Tel Aviv, without a place to sleep. Broken and confused, he goes on a wild night's journey looking for consolation.
One apartment, three people, in one long afternoon. Omri is having a troubled sex with Yonatan, his boyfriend, while his mother, Esther, comes on an unexpected visit. She enters the house like a storm and it's clear that something is wrong with her and she's not going to leave. She came with a purpose, she needs her son's warmth. Omri is still in the closet, try to hide the romantic relationship between him and Yonatan and almost ignore Yonatan's appearance. The three of them are trying to act regularly while the tense spreads in the air. They eat dinner, watch a french movie, Yonatan from one side, Esther from the other and Omri is in between. When Yonatan feels it's time for him to go and leaves them alone, the real purpose of the visit is revealed.
Itzik Zaza is an amateur photographer who makes video portraits of random people he finds in the street and invite them to his place. Today's star is Tuti, a 16 year old street girl who dreams of being an actress. Itzik told her that she's going to be a star of a movie just about her, and she couldn't refuse. During the shooting Tuti doesn't understand what kind of a movie Itzik is making. She stands in his room, and he asks her to talk about herself. "It's like a picture with time" he tells her again and again. Slowly Itzik's questions become more and more invasive, and Tuti is starting to feel uncomfortable. She wants to leave, but Itzik is convincing her to stay while he shoots both of them. "You see, now I'm also in the movie" he tells her and ask if she wants to make a scene of the two of them.
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to rival Amar, Sultan of Salmaah. The two men agree that neither can lay claim to the area of no man’s land between them called The Yellow Belt. In return, Nesib adopts Amar’s two boys Saleeh and Auda as a guarantee against invasion. Twelve years later, Saleeh and Auda have grown into young men. Saleeh, the warrior, itches to escape his gilded cage and return to his father’s land. Auda cares only for books and the pursuit of knowledge. One day, their adopted father Nesib is visited by an American from Texas. He tells the Emir that his land is blessed with oil and promises him riches beyond his wildest imagination. Nesib imagines a realm of infinite possibility, a kingdom with roads, schools and hospitals all paid for by the black gold beneath the barren sand. There is only one problem. The precious oil is located in the Yellow Belt.
Newly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, agrees to join only when his father promises that they’ll never see each other again following the trip. After revelations surface about an old flame of Frank’s wife and a charming hitchhiker with plans of her own intervenes, father and son find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways.
Traumatized by a fishing boat accident many years before, Joe Gastineau has given up his hopes for a life beyond the odd jobs he takes to support himself. That quickly changes when nomadic club singer Donna de Angelo and her troubled teen-age daughter enter Joe’s life. Both mother and daughter fall for Joe, increasing the friction between them. The tension continues to build when Joe invites them on a pleasure cruise up the Alaskan coast, discovering too late that the trip may cost them their lives.
In feudal India, a warrior who renounces his role as the longtime enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountains.
Journey with Pilgrim to the Celestial City, as John Bunyan's famous allegory leaps from its pages into movie from. You'll experience the Slough of Despond, the Hill of Difficulty, Vanity Fair; Meet Pliable, Mr. Obstinate, Worldly Wiseman, Evangelist, Mr. Interpreter, and Pilgrim's constant foe, Apollyon. Follow Pilgrim to the Cross, where he finds real sanctification. A powerful visualization of the Christian life.