Walking home alone can be scary sometimes, can’t it? For many, walking alone in fear is a daily occurrence. Sometimes you just can’t shake the feeling that something or someone is lurking around the corner waiting for you… even if it never does come.
Every summer, four best friends spend a few days in the mountains in a remote place in Slovenia. But their friendship was shattered years ago by an event at a party. When they want to face each other and start anew, they get involved with a strange family and the situation soon spirals out of control.
In Bloom is an abstract Gothic Romance short film by writer-director Christopher Rosica, blending experimental cinema with the timeless themes of love, loss, and memory. Crafted with a meticulous attention to atmosphere, the film offers a haunting exploration of the boundaries between the living and the dead. Shot in evocative black-and-white on a Fujifilm XT-30 by up-and-coming cinematographer, Xuepei Hou, In Bloom pays homage to the aesthetic traditions of visionary filmmakers such as Bergman, Tarkovsky, and Fellini, while drawing narrative inspiration from literary icons like Mary Shelley and Henry James.
Two actors participate in the casting of a peculiar project that seeks to redefine the iconic birth of Jesus. In the rehearsal, they find themselves increasingly immersed in the strange requests of the director, who seeks to give his own look to the celebration.
A young man thinks of his old close friends, from whose lives he disappeared. The bittersweet memories are interrupted by the appearance of his Reflection, desperately trying to reach him.
During a sunny holiday, a sightseeing cruise ship heading to "Happiness Island" encountered a shipwreck. Only Ning Yu, Zhang Xinchen and several survivors were washed up on an isolated island without coordinates or signals. Soon, they realized that this quiet island was not a refuge, and there was a strange atmosphere everywhere. Ning Yu, A Qiang and others went to find water. In a huge stone cave, they found two dried corpses and an old red notebook. That night, A Qiang looked pale and muttered to himself as if he was possessed. And the red notebook recorded the unprecedented horror that these survivors were about to face.
A young couple makes one last ditch effort to recuperate their failing relationship. Taking an impromptu trip to a secluded camping location amidst dense woods they soon make shocking discoveries.