Keyword Existential - 2

A grieving man gets a surprise visit from his best friend.

A guy becomes entranced by the glow of the television screen as he absent-mindedly indulges in a pack of mixed nuts. Hypnotized by the flickering images, he is lost in a trance-like state, disconnected from the world around him. Then, he encounters with a pistachio.

An ode to stillness, in the form of an experimental documentary miniature, inspired by Vitosha mountain and Sofia

A newly qualified priest meets with a difficult partitioner.

A young woman mourning the loss of a loved one battles to escape her existential nightmare.

In the deep of autumn, a woman drifts through fragments of memory and unease, unsure if she’s mourning the past or herself.

A young woman watches TV with her cat in the room. A dying man explores what's left of his psyche.

A prisoner belonging to a void known as “Lacuna,” longs to escape their entrapment. As they search for a way out, they confront the unchecked mental illness that plagued their former life.

Liz is a struggling actor living in Brooklyn. When she learns that her famous, reclusive, singer-songwriter uncle committed suicide and that she and her brother are the primary beneficiaries in his will, she decides to leave the city and move into his house in upstate New York. Once there, she explores her uncle's history and the ghosts, real and metaphorical, that may have been haunting him.

Two brains in jars exist exclusively in a game of PONG, oblivious to the world falling apart outside of their computer.

Written and Directed by Santiago Cantu, following a high school student and the loss of his brother.

Months after the unexpected death of his wife, an embittered, middle-aged painter flees to a cabin in rural New England where her presence, and more, waits for him.

This short film begins with the character Chauncey (a puppet made of sex toys resembling a mouth and hands with a sock for a body) rolling around in a babies’ rolling chair and watching obscure cartoons and shows on TV. They have satirical, comedic, religious, and disturbing overtones... but to Chauncey and his Dad, this is normal. After a while of the cartoons and Chauncey eating a sausage and then throwing it up, the cartoons inspire Chauncey to ask a series of philosophical questions to his Dad. The questions involve what happens after death, the meaning of life, and Chances asking about his identity and why he’s different.

While assisting a troubled patient in navigating his existential questions, a therapist is shadowed by an eerie figure from her past, pushing her to confront the profound difference between merely existing and truly living.

Ben questions his life decisions when he can’t seem to get over his ex-girlfriend. When deciding to move, his best friend Sam tells him she’s dying. They decide to embark on one last trip around the world before she passes away. Along the way, they discuss the past, future, present and their own mortality.

A man who spends his nights offering emotional support struggles to confront his own inner life by day. Aspiring to be a writer, he drifts through routines of procrastination and self-neglect, unable to return to the page. As time slips away, failed attempts at reinvention force a reckoning with the version of himself he has been avoiding.

After reading I Am the Sultan of the Law of Existence by Youssef Idris, a five-day journey through Egypt’s Western Desert, traveling from north to south., covering 2,800 km and shooting for 35 hours, the expedition became both physical and existential. The desert’s vastness and silence echo the text’s meditation on the relationship between man, nature and the universe, transforming the landscape into an active force that reshapes perception and confronts the nature of existence.

In a psychological thriller about space, time, and anguish, Möbius follows a man in a rush to leave his apartment. When the elevator fails, he takes the emergency stairs—only to realize he’s trapped in an inexplicable loop: no matter how far he descends, he always returns to the same floor. As time slips by, his efforts to understand or escape the situation drive him deeper into despair, pushing him to the brink of collapse.

Short animation about biology, cyborgs, chickens, symbiosis and suffering.