A dark fantastical tale in which a man enters into a pact with all the insect inhabitants of his rural cottage. when Joy leaves, Jonathan receives an array of services in exchange for surrendering a room in his house to the insects. his existence dripping with honey ,sex ,flies ,meat... and a very sticky end

David is a recent hire at a multinational company. As the important project he is working on nears completion, his secretive behavior draws the attention of his superiors. Sloan, corporate security specialist hired by the executive Glenda Grey, gets increasingly frustrated trying to understand what he is dealing with. As the fear grows that David is about to sell corporate secrets to competition, everybody is forced ...

“The sacred man is the one whom the people have judged on account of a crime. It is not permitted to sacrifice this man, yet he who kills him will not be condemned for homicide.” (Festo, “De Verborum Significatu”, 2nd century a.d.) Nomos is a documentary and a research project that investigates the “form-camp” and its modern declination. The research project is based on Giorgio Aga ...

Boy meet girl tales like this have long been a go-to realm, but when executed with as much charm as Girl Shaped Love Drug they have the power to spread unexpected grins on faces. There are lots of grins to be had here, along with a little squirming when other characters episodically interrupt the slow-blooming romance. Sacha Dhawan is ‘him’, a dreamer with a metaphysical presence, similar to the angels of ...

In a world where mistakes are unacceptable, everyone is trying to catch up with strict deadlines. The main character, a postman, is given the mission to hand in a letter in eight minutes. Along the way he has to make a choice between love and duty. He lives brief moments of passion, defying the rules.

  In his first short film Border, Dogan depicts the struggle of a young man to abstain from all that the other side represents; be that insanity, sickness, or death. Border is about an obsessive man, who is waiting for his same day HIV test results. The long wait leads him into a journey of self-questioning, obsession, and search for salvation. As clear in its title, Border is the portrayal of that thin line w ...

  The inspiration for the piece was a Chinese character, which means to be different. Many Chinese characters were originally based on physical forms of objects. It consists of two parts, which illustrates that two hands separate a group of gifts. In other words, the action of splitting is making the difference. For both pieces, I abstracted the movement of separating and splitting to depict the concept of dif ...

Runner is a short paranormal drama about a young man who kills a girl in a Hit and Run accident and foolishly attempts to carry on with his life as though nothing has happened. This proves to be impossible when he becomes haunted by a mysterious female presence. Soon his life spirals out of reality and into a surrealistic nightmare as he discovers that you cannot outrun a guilty conscience.   <object width=&q ...

2011 and 2012 Retreat alum Ken Pearson on why writers should apply to attend a CineStory Retreat.

Writer Lukas Hassel first came to the CineStory Retreat in 2009. Since then, he's continued to enter the CineStory Screenwriting Awards in the hopes of returning. In 2012, Lukas not only succeeded in this goal, he won the top prize of the competition and became our 2012 CineStory Fellow.