Existentialism Movies

Born in the depths of a forgotten factory, an automaton follows its programmed curiosity through a silent world of rust and steel.

What happens to a person's self when she retires and no longer has the job to lean on? Documentary filmmaker Lars Lennart Forsberg asked that...

As an old man, Jan slowly begins to waste away in his retirement home. But during a day trip to the Dutch National Mobility Scooter Racing...

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...

A young dictator awakens in purgatory, where he encounters a mysterious, nearly blind old man who also turns out to be a dictator. Trapped in a...

Sometime in the near future within a place of rot and wasted dreams, four men come looking for the Hall of Wishes within the contaminated zone of...

Two friends, plagued by bouts of 'existentiality', begin to doubt their existence and spiral into trying to find what life is truly about.

"Like a Pig in Shit" is a twenty-minute video piecing together audio and visual material found online, a collage technique common to the...

A businessman tired of work and his family life decides to escape for a weekend without any given plan. In a gas station he meets Natalia, a girl...

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.

As an unwavering natural force, Maj Wechselmann produces at least one film a year, which is guaranteed to show troublesome connections between...

A teenage girl spends her afternoon cooking. She is alone. Or isnt't she? A student short film shot and completed entirely from afar due to Covid19...

Paradise Man searches for meaning in an unknowable universe.

"Archaeology of Unborn Faces" is a silent cinematic excavation of the AI latent space. It stands before a digital purgatory, witnessing the agonizing...

Burden of Existence is a meditative short film about loneliness, debt, poverty, gratitude, addiction, and the fragile ways what we reap sows back to...

A young man, in the midst of an existential crisis, goes to his uncle for help.

A short philosophical satire that wanders between the absurd and the profound. From a silent bed stare to a prophetic lentil, Cryptex explores the...

Based on a passage from The Mural by the poet Mahmoud Darwish, the film depicts a scene of an encounter between The Writer and Death, where the other...

The Metaphor That Became a Room is a psychological drama exploring identity, communication, and the struggle for self-understanding. Divided into two...

'the art of boredom' is an improvised, surrealist psychological featurette that captures a raw, 41-minute existential crisis of the mind. Released...