A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
Two monster friends decide to follow different directions. Decades after leaving, Naiana is a high school teacher in a small coastal town, where a hotel under renovation emanates a strange presence. Three thousand kilometers away, the devouring night involves Diego.
After having lived separated from the human world for 18 years, Xiang Xiao Tian finally gets the chance to roam the world and become a demon hunter. Unexpectedly he unseals the ancient sword of Li Yin, an evil demon subdued a long time ago. And thus begins the battle between the demon realm and the demon hunters, who will fight their way to obtain the mighty sword
A regal man named Vangel is thrust on a journey against his will when he is suddenly and mysteriously arrested. Injured and lost after escaping the dark king’s men, Vangel begins to have strange dreams and visions of a mysterious woman in white calling him from the unknown territory of the North. Armed with a book called “The Record of the Ancients” that he receives from a wise sage named Elder, Vangel embarks on an adventure that takes him through treacherous mountain range, unending deserts, the Lake of Doubts, and the Forest of No Return. Along the way, Vangel learns about a fabled good king and his son in the North, but first he must make it there alive.
Official Zhao Zhifu is appointed by the leadership to go to Longtan Village to work on poverty alleviation and development. He finds that the only people left in the village are the old, the sick and the disabled, who live on white work. Zhao Zhifu's plan to help the poor is soon challenged and suppressed by the local snake Ma Sanbao.
Fedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the obscurity of the Russian Arctic. Client after client, he roams through the alleys of concrete animated by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its population. His dreams corrode his relation to reality and open the door to a phantasmagoric universe; a second sun is rising above the Russian Arctic.
Someone loads a camera. At the same time, a lobster is discovered. Elsewhere, a person crosses the street. Sometime around then, a phone is answered. Then, a body goes missing. A tale of two streets and the violence of filmmaking.
In a quest for a new, more humane society, a counter-culture revolution takes the world by storm. In the first of the InterReflections Trilogy, we look back to the modern world and wonder how it was we managed to survive as long as we had.
The fire of a lit candle. A bonfire burns beside a river. A young man and an old man are together in an old house, dark and surrounded by woods. Who are they: father and son, or past and present?
Manfredo seeks out a psychiatrist. The doctor insists on knowing his past, but there is something that Manfredo doesn't want to reveal and he abandons treatment. Dr. Pink starts to chase Manfredo and his life turns into hell.
An 11-year old boy believes that he is the best detective in town and runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, an imaginary 1,200 pound polar bear.
College student Sota picks up a cassette tape left behind by musician Aki when he died a year ago. When the tape is played back, Aki takes over Sota's body for just 30 minutes. They share the same body and rush to reunite a band that split up and bring a smile to Aki's girlfriend Kana's face.