A collection of 24 films that take a look at the dark side of the festive season. 24 international directors with the most diverse ideas and styles; linked by short animated segments that deal with the Advent calendar itself.

Normal life implodes for a suburban family when their pop-star cousin comes to stay.

A couple celebrates their son's birthday in the middle of the ocean on their boat. A violent storm hits and it brings up hungry creatures from the depths and they fight for their survival.

In order to enjoy his retirement, a father takes drastic measures to get his twentysomething, slacker sons to move out and fend for themselves.

After a traumatic accident, a bike courier begins to experience blackouts and hallucinations. She soon discovers that she's being dangerously influenced and even controlled by her unborn twin.

A divorcing couple fight over the custody of their 8-year-old son.

Four families gather for a dream luxury holiday but a dark secret triggers fears of betrayal and ends in murder.

A rich car dealer is losing his mind. His son lives in the bomb shelter. His suicidal wife has an affair with his transvestite sales manager.

The little family is as happy as ever, but one day someones steals Dad's wallet. The police can't help, so now Little Per and Uncle Anders goes om an investigation to find the thief...

A boy rises to the occasion with his best friend (a lovable talking dog) to save his home and family.

Princess Odette is hosting a music competition to celebrate Princess Alise's birthday - the winner will sing at her grand birthday ball.

Down and out private-eye Jimmy Baz reluctantly takes on a case to find a missing college student when dead bodies of Muslim men start turning up leading him to believe he is now searching for a serial killer.

Following the death of his wife, a broken man spirals into an abyss of night tremors and depression and finds himself in the home of a deranged cannibal who convinces him to take his own life in the most horrific way imaginable.

When the matriarch of a family of assassins falls ill, her three children and younger boyfriend fight among themselves to take over her empire.

Two pretty but ditsy American girls are on a road trip through Europe. In Germany, they end up alone at night with a broken car in the woods. They search for help and find an isolated villa. The next day, they awaken to find themselves trapped in a terrifying makeshift basement hospital along with a Japanese man. An older German man identifies himself as a retired surgeon specialized in separating Siamese twins. However, his three "patients" are not about to be separated but joined together in a horrific operation. He plans to be the first person to connect people via their gastric systems. By doing so, he plans to bring to life his sick lifetime fantasy, the human centipede.

After the merciless Sheriff of Nottingham orders a brutal attack on his family, a young man named Robin swears bloody revenge on the men responsible, vowing to restore freedom to those trapped under the realm's oppressive rule.

A newlywed's tropical getaway to Panama takes an unexpected turn when she finds herself drawn to their charismatic rental host, leading her to make a bold proposition that could change everything.

In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event.

A British student at a 1960s American high school must prove himself to the leader of a girls' gang whose members can only date greasers.