Warning 2021
Loneliness, death and the meaning of life, explored through vastly separate lives colliding in interweaving short stories set in future Earth.
Loneliness, death and the meaning of life, explored through vastly separate lives colliding in interweaving short stories set in future Earth.
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.
It’s 2041 and the gaps in social and economic inequality have left the world on the brink. A breakthrough in science has given humanity the ability to bring victims of a violent crime back to life by backing up their brain every 2 days. This allows an ambitious, young detective the opportunity to solve a case of a murdered couple when the restoration team is able to bring one of them back.
A couple decides to spend a romantic evening in a floor of a semi-abandoned building that slip because she works as a consultant for the council house and got the keys. During the evening they discover that a hooded murderer is the only tenant left in the building...and they have become the new target.
At the dinner table one night, a close-knit Romanian family is upset by a startling revelation.
Warsaw, December 13th 1981. Martial law shuts down the country. Overnight, a country turns into a prison. Taxis have been replaced by tanks. Citizens are treated like criminals. And visiting British Professor Joan Andrews finds herself trapped. After witnessing the murder of a young student by the secret police (the "Crows"), Joan herself becomes the target.
South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an independent investigation to prove his claim, but when the evidence still appears to be inconclusive, Polsky is forced to engage in a relationship with the enemy in order to obtain irrefutable proof.
Warsaw, Poland. Kamil, a street rapper who spends his time going from party to party, begins a love affair with Iwona, a wealthy married woman.
Poland, 1990s. Sławek gets the gig of a lifetime. He needs a car, so he plans to borrow his father’s taxi. Unfortunately, his mother has a different plan. Sławek has no choice but to take his parents to “work.” They are joined by a gangster named Kris. When they arrive at the spot, the gig turns out to be a regular robbery.
Thirty year old Benek experiences a crisis mainly manifested by compulsive suicidal thoughts and dreams about death. Accidentally he meets a beautiful, magnetic and mouthy Lena. He is dazzled from the first moment and his admiration grows when Lena not only understands his suicidal preoccupation but shares a similar one. They embark on a crazy journey during which Benek realizes he is not the only man in Lena's life - in addition, the girl has cancer, and she is not attempting to treat it. Admiration mixes with fear - finally Benek promises to accompany her to the end...
Anna gets released from a Polish prison on parole after fifteen years behind bars. Once free, Anna has but one goal - to find a woman whose name is Dorota.
A remote, and a bit crazy to be honest, psychiatric hospital receives a curious patient —one who he doesn’t move nor speak but spends his days standing with his hands up. The only thing known is his nickname — “The Atlas”. In a word, he is a riddle and riveting one at that, like an itch you cannot quite scratch. Theories and informed-and-fact-based-gossip flourish all around the place. As luck would have it, so does the conflict as what to do with him. The situation is close to exploding, but the Atlas won’t stir. Or will he?
17-year-old Asher is split between his charismatic teacher and his brash father, who wants him to take over his scaffolding business.
When he tumbles out of a window, Hamster sets an avalanche of minor catastrophes in motion. It turns out that the small, local community is incapable of finding either a common language or a single set of values. The innocent are the ones who pay the price for this failure.
Jez Jerzy is a skateboarding hedgehog who likes to drink beer and fondle breasts. He finds it hard to pursue his passions, however, while being tormented by neo-nazi skinheads, mad scientists and a drooling, flatulent clone of himself.
Once upon a time in America... Two friends - Anka and Dzastina - dream of a better life. When they decide to hitch-hike, an innocent adventure irreversibly changes their mutual relations.
Centers on a group of Nazi Germany's most prominent prisoners as they are transported across Europe to be used as bargaining chips in the German surrender.