Iraiyin Mozhi Mounama ? (2023)

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.

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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.

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.

Jubilee

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

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.

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.

Woodpecker

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

Woong Woong

The film about aspiration and existential crisis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Love 119

“Love 119” is part of Riize’s 1st mini-album Riizing. This pop dance song that has a dreamy atmosphere with a sweet mellow piano riff and drum beat is about the feeling of falling in love for the first time. It express the emotions felt when falling in love in a dreamy and melancholic manner.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Moondru Kanavugal

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

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

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

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.

Existentiality

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

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The stirrup of silence

Loneliness accompanies the vast majority of elderly people. Jesús, a lonely, partially deaf man, finds himself abandoned by a society that does not allow him to enjoy certain individual rights due to a severe pandemic ravaging the planet.

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.

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.

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.

Traveler

A raccoon on a voxel boat talks about his job.

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.

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.

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.

Perystyl

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From Salt to Soil

From Salt to Soil is hour long audiovisual project bringing together the sounds of USOF & Zarya with the words of Joana Coelho and Madalena Anjos, directed and edited by Léna Lewis-King. The film follows the landscapes from Barreiro to Crato, layered with notations, inner and outer worlds - tracing the geographic / poetic, with transportive and hypnotic sound scapes. It was made for the 2025 edition of Waking Life festival, where it debuted as the opening event for their cinema programme, Moonscreen.

To See In The Dark

Someone with a tragic background is being controlled by a larger than life group.

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.

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.

Triple Dare

Rebekka, Claudia and Sofie are freshmen in high school and will no longer accept being treated as juniors. Taking matters into their own hands, they devise a rite of passage, the 'fortune teller', symbolizing their entry into adulthood. As they take turns challenging each other's sexual boundaries, they eventually have to ask themselves whether performing weird rituals is the easiest way to get to know themselves and feel grown up.

Worlds Apart

17-year-old Sara leads a sheltered existence with her family, members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, when she meets the outsider Teis and falls in love. Sara, herself a believer, now faces an important turning point in her life as she is forced to choose between religion and love.

Prague

Christoffer and Maja's trip to Prague to bring back Chistoffer's deceased father, evolves into the story of a break-up. With the dead father lurking in the background, secrets gradually emerge threatening to destroy their marriage.

Lost Islands

A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.

Day Zero

The military draft is back. Three best friends are drafted and given 30 days to report for duty. In that time they're forced to confront everything they believe about courage, duty, love, friendship and honor. If called to serve, what would you do?

Nine Lives

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.