Movies and TvShows featuring "human-connection" theme.
Black Mirror is a TV show that delves into the dark side of technology and its effects on society. It presents a series of standalone episodes, each telling a unique and thought-provoking story set in a near-future or alternative reality. Themes of privacy, dystopia, connection, dehumanization, and unintended consequences are explored through a mix of drama, satire, and psychological thriller elements.
Tsotsi, a young criminal living in a Johannesburg slum, steals a car and discovers a baby in the backseat. As he cares for the infant, Tsotsi forms a surrogate family and begins to question his own violent lifestyle.
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories follows the lives of diverse customers and staff at a late-night diner in Tokyo, showcasing heartwarming and emotional human connections. Each episode focuses on a different customer's story, highlighting themes of love, loss, and personal growth.
The film delves into Armistead Maupin's journey as a groundbreaking gay writer and his struggles against censorship and homophobia in the American South. It highlights his iconic 'Tales of the City' series and his personal experiences as part of the LGBTQ+ community during the cultural and political shifts of the 1970s.
A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe.
An old widower, Jasper, routinely makes coffee in two mugs and picks up trash around his community. Some of his more interesting finds speckle his home. His neighbors mostly disregard him. On one of his regular hunts, he chances upon an envelope. To his surprise, he finds old wedding photos and presumes the addressee, Angie, to be the bride. Determined to complete the delivery, Jasper follows a map to the address. When he finally arrives, his excitement is upended when Angie, now divorced, rebuffs him and the photos. He leaves her with an open invitation to his home, should she change her mind. The next morning, Jasper starts his routine-only to find Angie at his door. After a heart-to-heart on loss and new life, Jasper invites Angie to pick up trash with him. Together, they go.
In the dystopian future, Juna, a teenager, lives in a world where humanity is disconnected due to advanced technology. When she unexpectedly falls in love with an android, she begins to question the status quo and embarks on a race against time to save the human connection. Juna learns about the power of love, fear, and the importance of preserving humanity.
A telepathic nightclub act becomes the backdrop for murder.
A Japanese tourist, Tokio, meets a 15-year-old Hong Kong girl and her grandmother left behind in Hong Kong while their family emigrates to Canada.
A restless bookstore clerk in rural Idaho joins an underground art collective, forcing him to choose between his comfortable small-town roots and a daring creative path that could change everything.
A struggling family’s dynamics are challenged and a unique friendship is born when a small-town Texas handyman becomes caregiver to their son with cerebral palsy.
A man and his sister meet at a seaside village to discuss their relationship.
A socially disconnected young man with Tourette's Syndrome undergoes an experimental surgery to correct his disorder, but as his symptoms start to fade so does his ability to heal the sick and dying.
In 1948, during the Indo-Pak war, an Indian soldier and a Pakistani soldier find themselves on the same side of the border. As enemies turn into unlikely friends, they navigate the challenges of racial prejudice, political and social satire, and tragic events. This dark comedy explores themes of pride, patriotism, and the human connection amidst the backdrop of invasion and survival.
In the anonymity of an increasingly automated city, a successful but socially struggling man finds an unexpected emotional connection through a help desk conversation. Thank You for Calling (Met Wie Spreek Ik) is a short, magical-realistic film about Rens, a director of a music venue who is on the brink of a burn-out. After an emotional breakdown, he is unexpectedly called by Herman, an unknown man on a houseboat. What starts as an uncomfortable phone call, ends in an absurd musical journey.
Two women waiting for their prospective online dates find themselves stood up and decide to spend that evening in each other's company.
Kirovakan, Armenia, 1968. A street in the town is being renamed, but nobody seems to know whom after. A chance encounter between a student running late to his thesis defense, and a young woman determined to leave the town forever. 25 years earlier, Genrikh Zakaryan, a young resistance fighter, smuggles a secret Nazi operations map through occupied territory. Imaginings and history meld into one, echoes of past and future coalesce: “the fate of Genrikh Zakaryan is intangibly intertwined with the fate of today’s youth.”
Unable to travel home across closed borders after her mother's sudden and isolated death in China, a middle-aged immigrant named Mei grasps for consolation and connection while living alone in COVID-era New York until one afternoon, she encounters a familiar stranger on the streets nearby.
This video project explores the emotional transformation of human connection during war, told through a conversation between a daughter and a voice clone of her father. The dialogue transitions from warm and human to robotic and detached, symbolising the impact of technology and distance on intimacy and identity.