Existentialism Movies

experimental piece exploring existentialism, time, age and space

An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger...

Two kids entangled in the pursuit of young love find themselves colliding with the life of a woman experiencing a crisis.

A man who feels paralysed by choice is sent into an existential spiral after finding a mysterious tape player that can tell the future.

An philosophical film assembled from archival NASA footage exploring humanity’s search for meaning in the silence of space.

Zoetrope is a haunting and surreal film set in an apocalyptic, decaying world. Based on Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”, a man...

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...

He is called the 'Socrates of the North'. He is also called the forefather of existentialism: Sören Kierkegaard, born in Copenhagen in 1813. At...

A teenage girl spends her afternoon cooking. She is alone. Or isnt't she? A student short film shot and completed entirely from afar due to Covid19...

Seàn-Liqué Bleùharde's latest New-New Wave experiment invites the audience to question not just what they’re watching...

A young man having his first cigarette.

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

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

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

This J.G. Ballard documentary assembles decades of interviews and archival material to paint a striking portrait of one of the most imaginative and...

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

A mother reflects on the freedom of youth and restrictions of adulthood as she reads a bedtime story.

The Metaphor That Became a Room is a psychological drama exploring identity, communication, and the struggle for self-understanding. Divided into two...

Minutes before leaving the floor that they have shared for years and ending their relationship, Gala and Marçal try to confront all those...