Movies: One take

A young woman wakes up in a room she assumes is a police interrogation room. A detective tells her she is the only survivor of a mass killing that evening. As the Detective has the woman recount the night and the killings, other memories are dredged ...

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history....

A head chef balances multiple personal and professional crises at a popular restaurant in London....

In March, 2017, at a small town, six boys and girls are selected through auditions. They work hard to prepare for a play, but the play is suddenly cancelled. These young people are disappointed at the news. One girl says "let's practice." The six boy...

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret....

In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of ...

Inside a modest Los Angeles apartment over the course of a single day, a group of disillusioned young adults prepares for a radical act they believe will change the world. As paranoia builds and fractures deepen, the lines between purpose, fear, and ...

The movie tells the story about a girl who has to hide and survive from a right wing terrorist while looking for her little sister during the terrorist attacks in Norway on the island Utøya, July 22nd....

Six families in different compartments of a train, moving through a rainy night. In a single, 145-minute take, the film depicts the families and how their lives are interwoven with each other. Vacillating between dream and reality, each story builds ...

Blind Spot is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter struggling with far worse issues than she realized....

A group of students travel to a remote region to participate in a kite-flying event. Next to their camp by the lakeside, they find a restaurant with cooks that treat the students with suspicion. Bizarre events lead to a complicated situation, from wh...

Tonight is the last chance for Alex to change his fate. As he puts an intricate plan into action, the shady characters and unexpected twists make it a perilous, high-stakes gamble....

In this comedy series, shot in single takes, six young people each experience pivotal moments in their lives that don't quite go as planned and lead to various breaking points as a result....

A moment in the life of Jacques and Kathleen, a Haitian couple confronted with the expiration of their Temporary Protected Status. Their story reflects the real fear and uncertainty thousands of families are living through right now....

When a hospice nurse finds herself trapped with a dementia patient, she begins to suspect something else is wrong with the woman, something otherworldly, and must fight to survive the night....

The last thing Damian and Pippa want, is to fall in love. Yet when they first look into each other's eyes, love is exactly what happens. So much so that it makes them, and everyone else in the park burst out in song and dance....

Alex (25), is a young Haitian man living in Chile who is undocumented and does not speak Spanish. After a car accident he is helped and translated by Daniela (50), a passerby with whom he is going to live what could be his last 15 minutes of life....

A tormented man struggling with his inner demons, seeks desperately a way to be at peace with himself....

When Amy and her boyfriend have a nice dinner in a restaurant where they first met, it turns out there's some pressure on their relationship....

A man goes home after a long time while away from his family. The daughter's phone call around the time of his arrival starts to tighten him....