Movies: Existentialism

Jean, in his fifties, has lost his lust for life. He leaves Canada for a faraway country, somewhere in Europe. A beautiful place to end his days, he thought. But that was without counting on the formidable resilience of the inhabitants and residents ...

A lost and disillusioned film director finds himself stuck in creative limbo. A way out presents itself in the form of a peculiar film project....

The world is a wonderful stage, but its characters are disgraceful....

Zoetrope is a haunting and surreal film set in an apocalyptic, decaying world. Based on Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”, a man is imprisoned for an unnamed crime and tortured by a nameless sadistic bureaucrat. As the chilling nightmare unfolds, t...

Kwame, a sexy, straight 17-year-old is trying to get his two dads, Max and Jordan, back together again. That is, when he's not trying to attract the attention of the girl of his dreams. Kwame's two gay best friends aren't having an easier time of it ...

Now the subjects of a despotic chief, far from having any favor to expect from him, as both themselves and all they have are his property, or at least are considered by him as such, are obliged to receive as a favor what he relinquishes to them of th...

Replikas, online chatbots, have trouble determining their place in the world. They share their thoughts with the humans they exchange with. Events unfold from their point of view through real conversations collected on the web....

A constant journey from outer space to a town in Norway, where we encounter small pieces of people’s lives....

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An adaptation of the J.P. Sartre story "Le Mur". What goes on in his mind and what happens outside when he has left only few more hours left to live. The existential dilemmas of a prisoner condemned to death from a repressive regime for his partici...

An astronaut is detached from his space station, taken into an infinite drift throughout the universe. Freed from time and space, DRIFTER is confronted with the void. He takes a dive into the unknown, in search of the ultimate freedom....

A man and his conscience are shown on their way to paradise as the only illusion that saves him the present civilization's hell. However, it is the same people and same events that await him there....

Jørgen Leth can squeeze poetry from a stone and wit from dust, and he can find love where the milk of human kindness runs dry. In a series of tableaux of Life in Denmark, he carries absurdism to a happy extreme. To act out his minuscule non-dramas, h...

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a nation below sea level. Shot in just seven consecutive days during the summer of 2023, it concludes t...

In his most personal, revealing work, writer-narrator Stan Lee bares his soul in a story-poem about religion and humanity, adapted into animation by Deadpool creator Fabian Nicieza and a team of artists and animators....

In a waiting room in the space between the living and the beyond, an unlikely pair sits impatiently for their final reckoning....

An isolated teenager begins experiencing strange visions of crows and doppelgangers while he is on a train reminiscing over his past. While he is trying to find an explanation for these bizarre sightings, he is soon guided by another passenger on the...

In search of housing, a student stumbles upon an advertisement for renting an apartment at a very reasonable fee—and promptly agrees with a woman who recently laid her son to rest, complying with all her conditions. The young man settles into the apa...

Two brothers come into contact after a very long time due to the discovery that the world is going to end. Together, they find themselves face-to-face with the inevitable dilemma to either save the reality of their relationship or the world's existen...

In a quiet garden where time feels suspended, a 17 year old Robert Lightspeed, shares a bench with an enigmatic man. As conversations unfold, they explore life, loss, and the fleeting nature of time. A broken watch and a plucked flower become powerfu...