Existentialism Movies

An orphaned teenager is visiting his parents’ grave - once a place of solace, now a reminder of his growing emptiness.

As the months pass through her, Mai gives us a glimpse into old age that explores between being abandoned and being belonged, passing the time and...

1962. The US Genesis 1491 space mission launches with a unique objective, based upon mankind's ongoing quest to seek answers to existential...

When a girl was ten-years-old she developed a brain tumor. Doctors were able to remove it, but at the expense of the perception of her own face. She...

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...

In the haunting stillness of post-Soviet suburbia, a lone man walks with purpose — toward the river. With each heavy step across the gray,...

A young boy searches for the meaning of life, but instead must learn to cope with issues much greater than himself.

An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.

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 film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think...

The utterings of a faceless narrator are intercut with the tale of an estranged woodland inhabitant, who makes a peculiar discovery.

In Tokyo, a girl and her boyfriend spend a night talking about their life, their precarious condition and their difficulties to earn a living, their...

An animated anthology exploring the themes of death, dehumanisation, and transcendence through three interconnected short films: "Fragile Symphony,"...

A small mistake in timing... A man who has given up on life is stopped by something unexpected: Death itself. Their encounter leads to a tragicomic...

An elder counts sheep as they fall asleep for the last time. Seeds spread across infertile land, among the deterioration of a bodily vessel and the...

Observing life, On question of human need for deliverance.

In this early exercise work of the director, three vignettes get intertwined within space and time. Often raw, often illusory, each vignette focuses...

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

A young woman drifts through fragments of images, memories and borrowed realities while questioning the future she has been taught to desire. Work,...