Credits

DIRECTOR Sophie Barthes
WRITER Sophie Barthes
PRODUCERS  Dan Carey, Elizabeth Giamatti, Paul Mezey, Andrij Parekh, Jeremy Kipp Walker

Synopsis

In response to shiny, bigger, better American consumerism comes Cold Souls, a surreal comedy in which souls can be extracted and traded as commodities. Balancing on a tightrope between deadpan humor and pathos, and reality and fantasy, the film presents Paul Giamatti as himself, agonizing over his interpretation of Uncle Vanya. He stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls.  Giamatti enlists their services -- only to find out that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea. On top of this discovery, complications arise when he becomes the unfortunate victim of "soul-trafficking" which leads him to Russia in hopes of retrieving his stolen soul from a talentless soap-opera actress.