The Anomalisa Effect

An asthma patient gets an attack after a long period and is stuck in a life-and-death situation

A craftsman, devoted to his wife and three children, sees his life unravel when he returns home to find another family living in his house and his loved ones missing. As he searches for answers, no one in his village recognizes him despite his lifelong residence, sending him spiraling into paranoia and violence.

A new short film from Trance Productions.

Three stories about people at emotional moments in their lifes.

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

A young, idle, half-mad man kidnaps a wealthy woman and confines her to the trunk of his car. He drives very close to the police who are watching his victim's house. He talks to the police and accentuates the danger more and more.

The body of a woman was found in a manhole. Is it an affair? The victim is a clerk at a mannequin manufacturing company. At the age of 26, she was a widow with a child, and she went missing after he went to collect her salary from the bank. A colleague at work said the victim was wearing an opal ring, but the bank clerk says she wore a jade ring when he came to withdraw money.

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

A boxer tries to recover from the memories he brought back from war.