Between Us

The daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and communication. “My body is my laboratory” was the motto, and his research on the language of dolphins and whales – as well as psychedelics and sensory deprivation – assured his own cult status in 20th-century pop culture as the basis for Ken Russel’s Altered States and Mike Nichols’s The Day of the Dolphin. Directors Michael Almareyda and Courtney Stephens, along with narrator Chloë Sevigny, explore the life of a determined scientist and his experiments into the psychonautical unknown.

In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s sudden death, his daughter inherits his patent for an experimental healing device.

Paul, from Mexico, and Sofi, from Canada, meet in California and become a couple. Their mostly sexual relationship is chronicled in a series of scenes separated by titles.

Cancer appeared one morning on her right breast and suddenly life became fragile and precious. A filmmaker decided to chronicle time passing, with all its beautiful simplicity. The film diary of a family, pieces of an Argentinian fiction film that wants to be completed, a tumor that dreams to be loved, two hunters looking for something to kill. The film glides between reality and fiction as the filmmaker tries to grasp the essence of his passing life.

A couple goes on a cross-country road trip from North Carolina to Los Angeles. Along the way they visit filming locations for some of their favorite movies while they fall in and out of love.

A filmmaker imagines his wife’s death as a mysterious disappearance in the Swiss Alps, casting his real family in an experimental exploration of grief and the search for closure.