Existentialism Movies

JULIA narrates the search for identity and meaning of a young generation, caught between the uncertainty of the present and the desire to find...

A priestess in “Serafisk Sang”, virginal in “Pastorale”, botanic in “Sommertanz” and finally a witch in...

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...

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...

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 dreamlike portrait of Akhira unraveling beneath the weight of her own reflection. A meditation on loneliness, transformation, and the haunting...

A recluse indifferent to everything around him seeks pleasure in one thing: a steaming, hot shower. One day, his heating goes off.

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

Clouds and more clouds.

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

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...

A man causes a public disturbance, policemen intervene.

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

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

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...

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

Poppy, the last human on earth, discovers a newfound friendship when she brings the former robot “Banjo” to life. Together they explore...

What starts as a desire to experience nature more intimately develops into a relatable conversation on alternative pathways through life. Two...

An existentialist conversation divided in chapters between the animated alter ego of the author and two alien creatures that represent future...