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Die Before You Die - Triggered

Die Before You Die - Triggered

2025 • 29 min • Germany, Not Specified
“There is no birth of consciousness without pain.” — C.G. Jung Kai lives behind a flawless mask — the successful businessman with the sports car, the mirrored sunglasses, the impenetrable wall and role he plays. But when a moment of inner collapse shatters his polished exterior, he is hurled into the darkest corridors of his own psyche. At a ritual-like dinner, he meets Mira — a silent, luminous figure who embodies the archetypal Anima, the soul he has long abandoned. When she removes her mask, she exposes a truth Kai cannot bear. His own mask is fused to his skin. He tears at it in desperation,and his frantic attempts to tear it off mark the beginning of his ego’s unraveling. The woman Kai had pushed away in the opening scene —his girlfriend— remains absent, representing the personal, relational Anima, the part of him capable of human intimacy. He is drawn into a surreal inner world where an actor sheds costumes like discarded selves, where hallways breathe, where mirrors refuse to reflect him. Even temptation rises in bodily form — a bartender pushing him back toward the intoxication of forgetfulness, the seductive pull of the Shadow, back into the numbness of unconsciousness. Kai resists, not heroically, but because something within refuses to die without being seen. The deeper he travels, the thinner his ego becomes. A mountaintop at dawn becomes the threshold: here he confronts the silence beneath all his masks. His breath merges with the world. His identity dissolves. What emerges is not enlightenment, but something quieter and more dangerous — the first glimpse of the Self, the center he never knew. When Kai returns to the world, he is transformed in the smallest ways: he kneels to return a lost teddy bear to a child — his own forgotten innocence — and then meets his girlfriend with a tenderness he could never access before. No drama, no revelation. Just truth. The journey ends where it began: in the ordinary world. But this time, the Persona is gone. And Kai finally truly appears. Director's note: This film follows Kai through a Jungian individuation process—the painful but essential journey from the mask we show the world to the truth we carry inside. I wanted to explore how a human being collapses and reforms, not through grand revelations, but through subtle encounters with the forces within the psyche. Mira and Kai’s girlfriend embody two different aspects of the Anima, the feminine principle in a man’s inner world. Mira is archetypal—silent, symbolic, and ritualistic. She is not meant to be loved but understood. She represents the inner soul-image that confronts us with the truth we avoid, and her presence leads Kai downward, into the depths of the unconscious. His girlfriend represents the personal Anima—the real woman onto whom he projects his fears, desires, and wounds. The story begins with him rejecting her because he cannot yet face himself. It ends with him meeting her again, but this time without projection, without armor, without illusion. The bartender serves as the voice of the Shadow—the seductive pull of regression, numbness, and forgetting. The actor on the stage embodies the roles we all wear until we learn to put them down. The child with the teddy bear is the innocence that returns only after the descent is complete. For me, the film is not about enlightenment or escape. It is about the quiet miracle that happens when we stop running from ourselves. When the mask falls, the world becomes simple again. Relationships become possible again. Love becomes true again. Kai does not transcend life—he returns to it. He discovers that the real transformation is not found in visions or rituals, but in the ordinary moment when you finally show up without a mask.
Laundry Day

Laundry Day

2025 • 5 min • United Kingdom
A lonely Woman seeks solace at a Laundromat that provides a special service.
Cruel , Naturally

Cruel , Naturally

2025 • 4 min • Ireland
A surreal cut-out lyric video for Cork band Ways of Seeing, transforming their track into vivid, unexpected imagery. Using analogue collage and digital techniques, the video creates a dreamlike visual journey that mirrors the rhythm, mood, and emotion of the music.
Killer Grannies

Killer Grannies

2025 • 7 min • United States
A short film about 2 elderly women who kill homeless men for insurance money. Based on a true story. An award-winning screenplay.
Forty Shades O' Greene

Forty Shades O' Greene

2019 • 13 min • United States
Danny O'Greene, an Irishman, with forty personalities, flees to Los Angeles when he discovers his wife is having an affair with his doctor, who seeks fame and fortune by falsely claiming he has cured Danny of his personality disorder.
Richie's Hollywood Pitch

Richie's Hollywood Pitch

2024 • 42 min • United States
Follow Richard “Richie” Ravosa, an emerging Boston playwright on his journey to take his #metoo movement drama stage play, Mommy, Are We Poor? to the silver screen. Watch him as he knocks on doors, seeking advice from Hollywood directors and producers on that most elusive subject—how to get a movie made. Pulling out all the stops, he even ambushes actors in an effort to pitch his script. Armed with dogged determination and cockeyed optimism, this gregarious gadfly will stop at nothing to get his play about Chelsea, a young, widowed single mother of two, struggling to make ends meet, made into a feature film. Will he succeed and make his movie? Or will his dream die on the vine as he continues to pursue that persistent mirage, like countless before him have. Will his dream make it to the screen? Or will his pitch end up in the ditch?
Tapped Out

Tapped Out

2025 • 6 min • Australia
A Weird Dream

A Weird Dream

2025 • 14 min • Turkey
Hasan sleeps inside a ruined church in the hope of discovering the location of a hidden treasure. As he follows the signs he sees in his dreams, they begin to clash with his own beliefs. Driven by the desire to make money, he forces himself to continue to the very end despite this inner conflict.
Clone Poker

Clone Poker

2025 • 3 min • Germany
5 clones, 1 poker game, who will win?
Demon Core

Demon Core

2025 • 12 min • Not Specified
One evening, a determined physicist stretches the bounds of nature with a malevolent subject scheduled to leave the following morning.
The Transition Room

The Transition Room

2025 • 14 min • United States
A grieving widower attempts to chase his late wife down in the afterlife only to be stopped by two extremely polite obstacles in his path.
Snake Pit - Director's Cut

Snake Pit - Director's Cut

2025 • 36 min • United States
Two best friends call each other to meet up and break into a stalker's house. Nuke calls his best friend, Crow, a locksmith, to enlist his help in robbing the house of his girlfriend's stalker. As the two effortlessly break into the stalker's house and spend all afternoon looking for something to frame this stalker with, the stalker comes home. The two friends decide to shove the stalker into the bathroom closet. However, it is revealed that the closet leads down into a basement inhabited by a Japanese demon.
A Carousel in the Rain

A Carousel in the Rain

• 4 min • Finland, Hungary
A Carousel in the Rain is a short film about finding happiness in being by yourself through difficult times and looking for a glimmer of hope in finding your love and sharing true happiness.
3 AM Chapter 1

3 AM Chapter 1

2022 • 35 min • India
It's fifteen minutes to 31st October, a Halloween when two employees pull a late night shift at their workplace Each of the three characters that we are interacting with, Ajith, Renuka and Rakesh, gets a deeply disturbing phone call
Rakshash the Birth of Demon

Rakshash the Birth of Demon

2022 • 11 min • India
An interrogation of a mysterious criminal by a police officer named as Nusrat , that mysterious criminal was having some supernatural powers to manipulate the reality
3:35 to Boston

3:35 to Boston

2021 • Duration unknown • United States
A military wife, struggling to balance all the pieces of her life, breaks down when she realizes that the life she had planned for herself may not be possible.
Girls and Boxes

Girls and Boxes

2026 • 13 min • Australia
From a high school art class to a local radio station, the day-to-day lives of several women coalesce into a poetic documentation of women’s presence and physicality across everyday spaces.
The Making of 'Tombstone'

The Making of 'Tombstone'

2002 • 27 min • United States of America
A Documentary covering the making of the 1993 Western 'Tombstone' featuring cast and crew
B(w)oke

B(w)oke

2021 • Duration unknown • Ireland
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Me and Dad

Me and Dad

2024 • 10 min • Ireland
A boy struggles to get through to his oblivious dad at a local pub. All attempts are ignored. The barman, the boys only soft ear. One final attempt pushes dad to break.
Operation X-70

Operation X-70

1971 • 9 min • Belgium
The innocent country Nebelux is accidentally bombarded with the poison gas X-70, designed to keep Asiatics in a lethargic and euphoric state.
Momentos

Momentos

2010 • 7 min • Portugal
An homeless man sleeps in front of an empty store when suddenly a vehicle stops and two men start to carry cases inside. Meanwhile the man tries to understand what is going on.
Vicky and Sam

Vicky and Sam

2010 • 14 min • United States, Portugal
While working at the local video store, Vicky meets Sam, who quickly becomes a regular costumer. Both fall in love, ignoring the true reason for their rendez-vous.
No War

No War

2022 • 19 min • Italy
John a CIA contractor goes to Ukraine with his team to look for Russian weapons of mass destruction and along the way takes with him a Ukrainian little girl found during a gunfight against Russian forces. Once the entire team of C...