Movies: Existentialism

Nearing the end of his university studies, a soon-to-be graduate reflects on his life up to this point, all through the lens of a Handycam his father used to use....

Following the sudden and tragic death of their younger sister, two young men must cope with their loss. But is there more to her death than what it seems?...

In this early exercise work of the director, three vignettes get intertwined within space and time. Often raw, often illusory, each vignette focuses on different surfaces of existential crisis of seemingly different characters. But, are they really d...

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For us, a thought always presupposes a society, a culture and above all the consciousness of time. We are haunted by immortality, human notion par excellence. As if the world was here to fascinate us. And to disappoint us. The film travels around the...

In the cabin the conductor activates the gear lever; his motion breaks the inertia. Behind is the station, then images of the machinery, the resignation of travelers, and the landscape. The events are increasingly bizarre; there is no destination, on...

Two individuals bound by the chains of immortality, influenced by an existence beyond human comprehension—whom continuously oversees them for millennia, trapping them in a game of time and the unknown....

"Birth is not a beginning and death is not an ending. They are merely points on a continuum." - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross...

This is the life of Divino Maligalig as he walks through the valley of the shadow of death...

A person ponders where their life is headed, in their own anxiety-ridden mind....

A quiet meditation on the mundanity of life....

Two brothers walk into a graveyard, yet can't find their fathers grave....

He is called the 'Socrates of the North'. He is also called the forefather of existentialism: Sören Kierkegaard, born in Copenhagen in 1813. At the request of his father, he studied theology. He sees himself as a poet and philosopher, but always on a...

A suicidal twenty-something is dragged on a night out, by his party animal lodger, to cheer him up. What could possibly go wrong?...

Do you need children, careers and partners to feel happy? The filmmaker Lotta Stemme has for five years documented both her own and three of her friends' griefs in the middle of their lives. Lotta tries to catch up with everything. Catherine chose to...

It’s 3 AM, the neon is buzzing, and nobody's where they thought they’d be. In the restless late hours of Miami, nine characters stumble through weird nights and even weirder dreams as they grapple with their dead-end jobs and absurdities of modern l...

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A Micro Universe is formed inside an expired tube of spermicidal lubricant dating back from the 1980’s. We see the formation of this universe through its aeons and the existential crises unfurling as a sex pest is eager to utilise it....