Michael Onder

Taksim Hold'em

On a Saturday night in Istanbul, despite the pleas of his fiancée, cynical Alper refuses to join the anti-government protests happening on his doorstep. He just wants to stay home for his weekly dose of poker, played with his regular crew of high-school friends. Alper's game is threatened as his friends set off on a series of passionate, and at times ill-thought-out, squabbles on whether they should join the demonstrations or not.

The Forgotten Circus

With his last breath, The Ringmaster breathes life back into his circus. Suspended somewhere between worlds The Forgotten Circus perform to no audience. Mixing circus, physical theatre, and dance to create a surreal world that floods the imagination and seeps under the skin. The circus represents the place between worlds and the point at which one says goodbye to oneself.

The Devil's Chair

With a pocketful of drugs, Nick West takes out his girlfriend Sammy, for a shag and a good time. When they explore an abandoned asylum, the discovery of a bizarre device - a cross between an electric chair and sadistic fetish machine - transforms drugged-out bliss into agony and despair

Paradox

Two men are stranded at the bottom of a well. One, with a serious injury to his head, thinks his has fallen in is own back garden in present-day Britain. But the other tells him they are really prisoners in a medieval dungeon. Who is right, and where are they really?