Shorts Block [Nessie]

When high school basketball player Vaughn gets in trouble on picture day, he pins the blame on the star of the team, Zeke, out of jealousy and desperation. Vaughn’s decision to betray a friend sets off a chain reaction which causes karma to come swinging back to him full circle.

A young man is accused of a crime. He confesses and doesn’t show a sign of regret. On the contrary – the young man seems to be proud and fully convinced of what he did…

„The Treatment“ tells the story of isolated patient Linus.  More and more a rigid routine consisting of meals, exercise, lulling music, irritating smoke and examinations by his only attachment figure Dr. Frei causes him suffering.  One day Linus notices the massive door to his room has been left ajar and he takes the chance to escape.  What he sees outside makes him question: Is he really who he believes he is?

On her way through the woods at night a woman hits something with her car. Besides a silver ring nothing is found at the site of the accident. The lights of a different car can be seen in the distance. Driven by fear and chased by unknown danger the woman lives through that night again and again, in a re-occurring nightmare.

Peter is being followed by killer bees, Elsa collects exotic flowers from all over the world. To be together, they both have to overcome their fantasies. But what if love itself is nothing but fantasy?

Inspired by true events which took place in Southern Germany in the winter of 1945, “Das Problem des Schnellstfluges“ (The Problem of the Fastest Flight) tells the story of an engineer’s harebrained scheme to build a manned rocket made of wood. Humorless scientist Erich Bachem meets young pilot Lothar Sieber when he is ordered to fly Bachem’s rocket. Though the two initially regard each other with scorn, a father-son relationship soon emerges. When the Nazis push for a premature test launch, the young pilot loses his life in what proved to be the first manned vertical launch in history. An 80-year-old man, who at age 10 witnessed the events in the village, now attempts to recount the story, assembling the details from his own vague recollections. What emerges is a distorted, almost sentimental telling of a tragic story from an even more tragic time.