Louise Hylland

The Best Years

Cataract

A desperate woman robs a gas station with her nearly-blind younger brother and catapults herself into deep water in order to pay for his cataract surgery.

Text Me When You Get Home

Four young women walk home alone after a trip to town. They are all confronted with the general fear and paranoia when a woman walks home alone late at night. But not all dangers lurk in the unknown.

Wonderland Recoil

In a dystopian future, it is possible to print customized drugs and psychedelics with any effect from your home computer. Alice is trapped in her depressive life and desperately seeking an escape. She finds a brand new psychedelic drug: Nirvana -- designed to distort your reality. Alice takes the drug and arrives in Wonderland as her alter ego, Ecila. What initially seems like a euphoric experience of happiness slowly turns into a nightmare, forcing Ecila to face her demons.

R[evol]ution of Love

A tragicomic existentialist tale of an alternative encounter between two misplaced, identity-confused teenagers Mada and Ave, who, despite a failed rape attempt, develop empathy, understanding and feelings for each other.

Writer's Block

A young writer is suffering from depressive writer's block. She slowly loses her mind and as the voices intensives she dives deeper into herself and why she can't write.

Text Me When You Get Home

The unique and complicated bonds amongst women who grow up but never grow apart, even when your married friends completely forget what it was like to be single and try to set you up with a guy who has no neck.

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