Aleksandra Cwen

Whether it's bots in the bloodstream, a silent stranger by the road or even a single, all-consuming thought, death comes in peculiar forms in this wildly creative collection of shorts, offering five gruesome tales of the strange and the unnatural.

While searching for Nazi documents in an Austrian farmhouse, a team of experts uncovers a hidden secret buried in its bowels. American expatriate Gunner S. Holbrook becomes obsessed with solving the mystery, and as his sanity wanes, he must confront an insatiable evil. Can he find redemption before it drains the life out of him?

Dans sa petite ferme au cœur des montagnes, la jeune Albrun mène avec sa fille une existence modeste et retirée du monde. Indépendante et travailleuse, elle tache d'ignorer depuis des années les quolibets des villageois, qui l'accusent d'être la descendante d'une sorcière. Un matin, un prêtre des environs lui remet un cadeau des plus étranges : le crâne de son aïeule, sorcière avérée selon lui. La raison d'Albrun vacille alors: que signifient les visions et comportements étranges qu'elle a depuis quelques temps ? Quel sang coule réellement dans ses veines ?

An empty, undefined world. Gabriela (70) is seriously ill. By all means she tries to keep alive, to escape from her own death. In her suppressed and rising fear of death she refuses any moral argument. Gabriela becomes an animal.

On a bleak island where monolithic concrete buildings rise above the windswept horizon lies work-colony #191286. Piwonka is one of a handful of migrant workers who are forced to work here under harsh conditions. He has been estranged for two months from his beloved wife when a fatal incident at the main drilling-tower occurs. Piwonka has a recurring dream of his wife where it feels like she's trying to communicate with him, to warn him perhaps, or guide his way.