Iraiyin Mozhi Mounama ? (2023)

Mirror

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

Bestia

Man is constantly confronted by the one eyed beast. When peeking through the hole in his box, he discovers a truth that transforms his life. Every time the beast observes him and the darkness approaches his box, he becomes an embarrassed being.

Ilraan's Contemplation On The Crisis of Existence

Ilraan's Contemplation on the Crisis of Existence unfolds in six acts, each set in a different place. Ilraan moves through ruins, forests, abandoned houses, and distant shores not in search of beauty, but meaning. Yet the more he tries to make sense of the world, the less it offers. Each image, each moment, brings only more questions. The silence deepens, not with peace, but with doubt. The world refuses to explain itself it only mirrors his unease. And in that quiet unraveling, Ilraan begins to lose faith in the shape of reality itself.

Jubilee

Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.

6W

In a space without limits, a being without identity confronts his own existence by asking himself six fundamental questions. In his search to define his essence, the protagonist enters an introspective journey marked by a lack of answers and uncertainty. Through this internal challenge, the character unravels the complexity of identity and self-awareness, inviting the viewer to plunge into the depths of existence, where unknowns and the absence of clear answers defy the limits of human understanding.

Akame 48 Waterfalls

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old room in a shabby old house filled with prostitutes, gangsters and a weird old tattoo master. He clearly doesn't fit in to this new world, and the inhabitants of it immediately despise him.

De lo inmenso que es Sentir Neutro Gris

A girl is having an existential crisis alone at her house while she meditates about her condition

Mr. Misunderstood

When overwhelming expectations tower over him, Cecil must silence the doubt controlling him, while an aspiring film career slowly becomes the least of his worries. Written and directed by newcomer Aaron Fisher, Mr. Misunderstood takes a close look at the endless pressures that loom over one aspiring filmmaker's life, as he conveys the beautiful imperfection of our most human characteristics.

Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease

Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the operating stage. Facing imminent death, he questions the beliefs he has held all his life and starts experimenting with both his own life and those of others.

AA-PROXIMA-SUN

A girl approaches a divine entity that comes to the world in the form of a yellow umbrella, and ends up discovering her true self.

Woong Woong

The film about aspiration and existential crisis.

A Trip Elsewhere

During the Covid-19 pandemic, four anxious strangers take a record-breaking dose of LSD, catapulting them into a shared psychedelic dream where they must find solace and redemption before they can return to the real world.

Nadir

NN lives in an environment that is completely at odds with who they are. Their past has made them lose faith in the concept of God—only the plants they care for and Yono, a man who runs a plant shop and seems to share the same beliefs, offer any sense of connection. One day, NN decides to prove that God does not exist and begins to challenge Him. One by one, their wishes are granted—but the consequences are far from what they expected. NN's life starts to change in unexpected ways.

Violet Prevails

Under the endless agony of surviving as a photographer, Jade's (30) struggle to get recognition will push her lover and muse, Adah (20s), to offer their existence to the eternal judgment of love.

Crisis

The Feminine and Masculine personalities of a man begin to argue about the former coming out, forcing the latter to be more vulnerable about who they are and where they stand.

Die Ampel

A traffic light stops on red. More and more people gather in front of it and wait. As no one wants to take the first step, those waiting are forced to join forces.

Penumbra

In a state between life and death, K. has a conversation with an unknown figure, where he recalls experiences and relationships throughout his life.

Aetheria

Aetheria is a meditative 4-minute short, bathed in deep purple hues and enveloped in a dreamy atmosphere. The film presents a single tree, reimagined with subtle shifts and changes.

De lo inmenso que es Sentir Neutro Gris

A girl is having an existential crisis alone at her house white she meditates about her condition

Dion & Denver

In the late 1960s, an aging Dion DiMucci, struggling to stay relevant in a rapidly changing America, meets an ambitious young John Denver who helps reignite his passion for music and reminds him of their place in the cultural spotlight.

Moondru Kanavugal

Two strange people exchange their views on different forms of authority through dreams they encountered.

Hold Me, Softly

'Hold Me, Softly' follows the blossoming friendship between a reclusive video-game designer and her charming new neighbor. As they talk through the most profound tears and laughter along the curbside, their heartwarming story captures the essence of summer and the promise of hopeful beginnings.

The Day: The Movie

When brothers Sten and Leonardo gain supernatural intelligence through a medical accident, they are confronted with their old nemesis Agent Erik, who plots to destroy the brothers and everything they hold dear.

I'm At Home

The host of a children's television show aimed for creativity starts experiencing burnout after needing to force that creativity every day.

A Short Film About Love

Two young people walk together late at night, sharing a cigarette. They search the smoke for connection and finally say the things that have been long left unsaid.

Woodpecker

A dreamy autumn picnic goes awry when it receives an unexpected visitor.

Existentiality

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

Separate From You All

A man attempts to regain the life he used to lead after being mysteriously forgotten by everyone he’d ever met.

Untitled Mockumentary Comedy

Three student filmmakers set out to capture each other's inner life struggles in an avant-garde documentary, but as the lens turns inward and time begins to lose meaning, they drift into an existential spiral of insanity—where memory fractures, selves unravel, and nothing remains quite real.

The First Summer Night

اول ليالي الصيف هو عن شخص يجد نفسه في محطة انتظار في اول ليله له في الصيف . First Nights of Summer is about a guy who finds himself at a bus station on his first night of summer.

A Fool's Paradise

A film about the spiritual exploration and duality of man.

Exit

Events take a sinister turn one night in London, when two very different couples arrive at a double-booked apartment. Actions have consequences and not all debts are paid for with money. Leaving, it's harder than you think.

To the Brink

A violent stop motion cabaret for the cynical and depraved. Guilt, alcoholic apathy and the inevitable, looming apocalypse threaten to push a young man to the brink.

Perystyl

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Wild in Blue

A story about a madman with a movie camera. He's a narcissist, nihilist, sexual sadist and killer of innocent women. His name is Charlie and WILD IN BLUE is his world: a place of evil, violence and perversion where only his camera tells the truth. He set out to make an honest film for you - no lies whatsoever - and after the madness and all the hate, you will love him.

MUSTARD

Tom Garbageman is such a bad artist even the movie he's in is bad. This is his descent into depression. This is an exercise in boredom. This is the story of a man in trouble.

Gombrowicz or The Immaturity

A documentary of absurdist humor that delves into the immaturity of Witold Gombrowicz, the controversial Polish writer who lived in Argentina and wrote the first existentialist novel.

TATTERS

Meet Marvin: A silly puppet who learns a big lesson after he is diagnosed with a terminal illness.

ash

a teenage boy falls in love with an amazing but broken girl. he believes he can fix her, but her priorities leave him obsessed with unfulfilled dreams and desires.

Traveler

A raccoon on a voxel boat talks about his job.

My Blood Flows Like Acid

An abstract, surreal and experimental anthology consisting of five sequences exploring the themes of identity, the nature of existence and the human condition. Part I tells the story of a postapocalyptic world where a Man feeds the ocean his blood in order for the water to continue moving, Part II is an abstract interrogation of several concepts including love and loneliness - Part III sees several ordinary people interviewed and asked various existential questions, and Part IV and V further expand upon the surreal filmic techniques present in Part II, whilst continuing the delve into existentialism.

House of the Wizard's Blackened Soul

House of the Wizard's Blackened Soul-a short by filmmaker Dakota Ray-follows Gideon, an alcoholic psychopath, as he cares for his mute grandfather in a decaying home, spiraling into madness, moral decay and self-destruction.

IT'S ALL ABOUT ME

This film is the culmination of 4 years of therapy and half a year of production. A man focuses on his identity. A meditation on radical acceptance.

119

In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... until one day. The monotony of their daily lives is interrupted by the appearance of a beautiful female college student, Momoko, who comes to visit her aunt. After catching a glimpse of Momoko, both Tatsuya and Nobuyuki can't stop thinking about her. Since then, the small town is not so quiet anymore…

On the Sunny Side

Main character Esther feels like she doesn't fit into the 'elite' and takes the big showdown with those who always have.

Bar 51

After the death of their mother, Thomas and his sister Mariana leave their hometown for a brighter future in the city. They become patrons of a marginal bar in Tel Aviv, Bar 51, whose regulars serve as a backdrop for Thomas’s obsessive love for his sister, and her desire to break free and make a life of her own.

She Fell Among Thieves

While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.

Silence

"True Stories" is a series of stories about ordinary people put in the face of extraordinary challenges. These are stories inspired by life. Without undue pathos and artificial happy ending, but with an optimistic message. The film is based on real events. January 28, 2003, a group of high school students went to climb Rysy. An avalanche killed eight of them. Parents of children who were killed face tragedies. It's hard for them to come to terms with what has happened.

Johnnie Waterman

On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the animal was tortured. In the village lives Jańcio, a philosopher, a man loving life and his young wife, Weronka. Jańcio lives in harmony with God and is not expecting that he will be put to the test by him. He is convinced he has the power to make miracles. He leaves his pregnant wife, and goes to see the world, promising to return before the due date.

In the Crosswind

June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband, Erna and her daughter are dispatched together with other women and children to remote Siberian territories. Despite hunger, fear and brutal humiliation Erna never in next fifteen years loses her sense of freedom and hope of returning to homeland.

Hero Hiralal

A Bollywood obsessed auto-rickshaw meets and falls in love with an actress. When the film crew packs up and leaves, he too sets off to Bombay to be close to her.