"The cigarette after sex, after death, after a breakup, after bad news, after - anything."
An anthology film produced by mc² film, consisting of ten short films centered around the smoking of a cigarette after different major events.
Social & External
The people behind it
Alin Boeru
Radu
Eduard Bot
Ionut
Antoaneta Cojocaru
Rozi
Iorestina Florea
Alex
Vlad Ghinea
Andrei
Olivia Lapusneanu
Adelina
Ruxandra Maniu
Gia
Dana Marineci
Irina
Valentin Păduraru
Silva Helena Schmidt
Daria
A hearse cruises the streets of Medellín, while a young director tells his story in this city marked by conflicts, violence and paradoxes. He remembers his childhood and the discovery of his sexuality.
In the heat of a summer day, Draginja discovers a dead body that resembles her. In the heat of a summer day, Draginja hires a fake husband to show off in front of her friends. In the cold of a winter night, Draginja roams the streets hoping to recover her lost memory. Through three different life possibilities, a middle-aged woman tries to get out of her skin.
A 29-year-old lawyer and her lesbian best friend experience a dramatic shift in their longtime bond after one enters a serious relationship.
We follow the course of three meals in very different situations. Two friends who could become more, a tense work lunch and the family dinner we all know about.
After inadvertently drinking himself to death, Gabriel, a downtrodden recent college graduate, is presented with one final conversation with The Guide before he moves on. As the two discuss and recall key moments from Gabriel’s life, they share a growing, but transient bond all while Gabriel finds a peace with his end and an appreciation for the life he has lived.
Noah, 35, retreats to a beloved lakeside cabin to quietly end it all. But when his ex-wife Lizzy arrives unannounced, his carefully laid exit unravels — in ways neither of them saw coming.
LIANG HUAN is a young man with a Chinese mother and a Spanish father who grew up in the suburbs of Barcelona. He makes a living giving as a kung fu teacher and dealing with his neighborhood friends: PARDALES, a thief by profession who is like a cat with nine lives, and TRACAS, a drug dealer who is dim-witted, but with a big heart. Liang's great love is PEI LAN, a beautiful and mysterious student who attends his classes. What LIANG doesn't know is that Pei Lan is the daughter of SOONG, head of the Chinese mafia in Barcelona, whom she hopes to succeed one day. In order to get Pardales out of his regular prison visits, Liang acts as a confidant of MONTSE GELABERT, a police inspector who is after the Chinese mafia for having killed her family years ago.
Amal (Nadia Lotfi) loves Hussein (Jalal Issa), but her father refuses to marry her to him and manages to kill him, so she lives sad hopes in the world of remembrance, sacrificing her youth and beauty for the sake of the memory of the one she loves, even if she offers her in her loneliness and her monster who humanizes her and who can forget the memory of her first love, then she encounters Adel, a young man similar to her lover, and discovers that he is his little brother, so she becomes kind to him, but she is frightened when she remembers her first love.
A silent woman returns to the same park bench every day, where life and death quietly intersect in a ritual of flowers and waiting.
It explores themes of love, acceptance and self-discovery through the story of two individuals, Jiro and Jessica, who have down syndrome.
My debut film made for Uni. A sixteen-year-old boy bumps into his ex-girlfriend at a local park, yet to find out she has already moved on from the breakup. Gabe has to deal with the awkward encounter of seeing her with someone else.
When the mother of two adoptees is tipped off about the possible affair her husband may be having with one of their children, her sense of duty takes a macabre turn.
After witnessing the death of a child, Camilo, a young traffic officer, is plunged into deep introspection, haunted by recurring dreams of his own death. Amid this internal struggle, he reconnects with Leslye, who gradually helps him rediscover the value of life.
War. Bloodshed. Betrayal. The Father's territory will be claimed at any cost.
Sophie and Jojo have been separated for six months but still live together like a couple. Only when Sophie's parents—who are unaware of the breakup—make their continued financial support conditional on her having a child with Jojo does movement come into the stagnant lives of the two millennials.
A Baker and a Train Driver meet during a festival to play a game of chess. While playing the game, both exchange ideas about Life and Death and their future destinies.
An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.
Four tales unfold in Wes Anderson's anthology of short films adapted from Roald Dahl's beloved stories, "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar", "The Swan", "The Rat Catcher", and "Poison."
Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.
Jamal and Silas, two ordinary guys who smoke something magical, pass their college entrance exams with flying colors and end up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until their supply of supernatural smoke runs dry. That's when they have to start living by their wits and rely on their natural resources to make the grade.
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.
A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.
Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.
Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…
Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
A young woman thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube videos with a charismatic stranger – until the dark side of viral celebrity threatens to ruin them both.