Hope & Joy

Guy is out of touch with emotions, Julie is desperate to conceive a child and the planet is being dumped with the waste of 7 billion people. All seem quite normal problems until the suspicions of a strange new disease start to filter into the everyday discomforts of Guy and Julie's life. With dark-edged humour this wonderfully absurd thriller offers a quirky solution for the state of the planet.

He and She, both of them spend a Christmas night together. They did not meet each other although they shared the old house for many years. Their engagement took place only in the mirror image of the distant Japanese prose of Heian period.

Russia, 1990s. In an unkempt and dilapidated hospital room, where the window is boarded-up with plywood, a young man lies paralyzed from a spinal fracture suffered in a motorcycle accident. A new patient with the same diagnosis becomes his roommate. It would seem that they have much to share, with both of them lying on their backs 24 hours a day. But, while one has the nurse call button, the other has an exit to a world through a small hole in the plywood. What will they find there?