In May 2022, a commercial fishing vessel sunk off the coast of southern New Zealand. NZSAR continued to search for Noah Higgs for a further two weeks until the search was called off.
An alien visits a coffee house by a multi-verse intersection, he and the other patrons soon discover that they are stuck in a time loop. Cautiously the aliens must follow a planetary protocol in order to discover and break the mechanism.
A young girl, Grace, loses her favourite toy while out playing in the woods, Boopie. A spirit in the woods, Seraph, gives life to Boopie in order to help bring the toy home. However, the only way in which Boopie can return to Grace's side is by enduring upon a perilous journey through three mystical realms.
14-year-old Grasshoppers gang member Djibril leads a dangerous existence in a Marseille slum, along with his pregnant girlfriend Camilla who belongs to a rival gang, the Crickets. When Djibril is manipulated into killing the young Cricket Mahad, war breaks out. Djibril is haunted by the curse Mahad spat out as he lay dying, and begins to communicate with the spirit world. Convinced that global apocalypse is imminent, he embarks on a crazy plan to flee with Camilla and their unborn child – the only one capable of saving them all from Mahad’s malediction. But the law catches up with him. Now, after 12 years in prison and a secure psychiatric unit, Djibril will do whatever it takes to find his daughter and convince her to fulfil his prophecy.
A girl searches for food in the forest in Valia Calda to take care of her sick father. She finds a cave within which she discovers a deeply buried truth.
Mindy adopts Angel, a high-spirited pony that—according to legend—will lead its owner to gold hidden in the nearby mountains. When Angel is kidnapped by a mad treasure hunter, Mindy and her school friends head into the hills to rescue the pony and hunt for the lost gold. But Mindy meets a mountain man that warns her the treasure is part of an ancient curse—if they remove the gold, they'll destroy the beautiful forest.
An all-star hockey player is critically injured during a game. With nothing to do, he seeks a week-long job at a decrepit hotel in Colorado. When he arrives, he must face past trauma from the strange employees and spirits in the building.
Two elves venture into the wilderness to explore the infamous ruins of Aldemore and the world of Aerindor. The road forces them to explore their friendship and ideologies, and how unsophisticated curiosity can argue with maturity. When met with danger, impulsive choices might lead them to endanger a prophesy of the end times at the hands of a heinous cult.
A girl is carelessly roaming around the woods, when suddenly she gets seduced by mystical figures. This experimental short film is inspired by an existing Nepalese folklore. The folklore is adapted to represent the indigenous Limbu people, and their marriage practices inside the community. This short film talks about the existing ritual that took away the youth, freedom and choices of Limbu women.
Leaf Man is a metaphysical monster movie following a man's odyssey through a world of perspective-shifting existential transformations. With momentum from a powerful shoegaze score, this wordless short film uses surreal and strange dual-roled characters to dance through the boundary between ourselves, our surroundings, and each other, in the search for a meaningful life.
Arjun falls in love with Divyavathi who turns out to be a ghost, and sets out on a journey to uncover the truth about Divyavathi's spectral existence, learning valuable lessons about love, acceptance, and empathy along the way.