Under Pressure

Ambitious Madleen and carefree creative spirit Hugo embark on a symbolic journey up the mountain of success, exposing the tension between societal pressure and self-fulfillment. While Madleen strives to meet society’s expectations and achieve a high-status career, Hugo chooses to move through life at his own pace, guided by creativity rather than external expectations. The film invites the audience to reflect on the choices young adults face in a success-driven society and to question the decisions we make and the values we prioritize in life.

On his first shift of the 24 hour news cycle, Henry McCance makes it a five minute news struggle.

An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Unscrupulous salesmen try to hawk dubious real estate to suckers.

A young woman is confronted with the conflict of growing up and pushed to her mental limits. Nothing seems to be working or going the way she thought it would. Her inner life is becoming more fragile. How long can she put up with this?

Letty Mayer, young and beautiful, has a cherished job as a teacher, a successful attorney boyfriend, and a tight knit family that is excited about her sister's impending wedding. But inside Letty there¹s an anxiety that¹s building. Suddenly the pressure of Letty's world overwhelms her and she suffers a devastating nervous breakdown. Institutionalized, she meets Michael, a schizophrenic who has been in and out of hospitals his entire life. Although major obstacles exist, Letty and Michael throw caution to the wind to pursue an intense new love as Letty finds herself torn between a safe past and a daring future...

A university student named Jared is trying to make a short film with his friend Josh and some other students. Thinks take a turn for the worse when Josh's crush Sophia suddenly appears and the crew begins falling apart by losing focus of the assignment.

Victor Frigd, an ex screenwriter turned screenplay reader, has to decide whether his morality should get in the way of him keeping his job.

There's a bomb under her chair at a speed dating event, and she doesn't know it. If he can't keep her interested long enough for his team to defuse it then the entire restaurant and everyone inside is doomed. But, hey, no pressure.

As Megan faces her 30th birthday, the pressure to take the 'next step' in life is overwhelming. But when her own opinionated ovarian eggs start chiming in on her every move, she finds herself navigating not just the expectations of family and friends, but also the brutally honest commentary from within.

Following the death of his friend Alfred, Ryan prepares to deliver a eulogy. What begins as an attempt to remember the dead gradually becomes a deeply personal confrontation with grief, guilt, resentment, loneliness, and everything left unsaid between two people. As Ryan’s memories begin to fracture and contradict one another, the distinction between remembrance and reality slowly dissolves. The Alfred Eulogy is an intimate exploration of grief, masculinity, emotional repression, and the weight of words that were never spoken.

Driven by the insatiable hunger for more followers, Young Vic starts fabricating his online persona, blurring the lines between reality and fiction. His once-charming personality takes a dark turn, as he resorts to manipulative tactics

Nele’s whole life is centered around rowing. Together with her best friend Dina, she trains every single day without exception. But Dina is struggling with her own body – her skin is turning scaly and spikes start growing out of her back. While Nele tries to keep her focused on training, Dina decides to listen to her body and surrender to the transformation. Not only is their shared passion at risk of falling apart, so too is their friendship in jeopardy.

An intimate documentary chronicling the rise of the band Counting Crows and the unrelenting pressure that followed their breakout success. Centered on frontman Adam Duritz, the film explores the emotional aftermath of the band’s landmark studio album debut “August and Everything After” and the pressures and creative process of making their follow-up album “Recovering the Satellites.”

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A couple and their friend get high on a weekend getaway trip, where tensions rise as one engages in unfaithful behavior, which only seems to escalate as the night goes on.

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the alcoholism and debauchery of their older son Jamie. As day turns into night, guilt, anger, despair, and regret threaten to destroy the family.

A young woman archaeologist searches for the wreck of a sunken boat during the 2nd World War to save the honor of her grandfather, a former sailor, accused of having hijacked the cargo of art objects he was loaded convoy to Algeria and embarked on a treasure hunt.

Three young women, while in a vacation in Greece, run afoul of three charismatic young men who prove to be much more than they seem.

A woman, frustrated by the unwillingness of her out of work husband to switch jobs, in her anxiety, falls prey to a system that commodifies women. Against the backdrop of a persuasive consumerist culture, while the man experiences conflicting emotions, she goes numb in her quest for a better foothold in life. Torn between survival and living in grace/disgrace, the emboldened woman realizes the shifting power balances in their relationship.