In a waiting room in the space between the living and the beyond, an unlikely pair sits impatiently for their final reckoning.
Tranquility is a silent short film centering feelings of emptiness and the search for fulfillment.
A quiet meditation on the mundanity of life.
A teen contemplates his life after getting locked in his garage during a power outage.
A dream character tries to sell telepathic devices on a dream TV network, only to be confronted with a poetic existential crisis!
Rudra has come back one morning, has return to his friend Saruar's home. He had disappeared from home leaving no cue, a year ago. Saruar first came to know about Rudra's disappearance in Rudra's mother's call. Then he had gone to Rudra's home and saw how his agitated parents and elder brother were tracing out reasons of his desertion. Rudra do not answer any of these questions of Saruar now. He become immutable and eloquent. He only replies that he is tired and cinema experience Rudra's exhaustion from this world's journey in a non-narrative way. Rudra's consciousness become aware of a bigger crisis. Rudra just express interest to go to sleep for a while.
Two kids entangled in the pursuit of young love find themselves colliding with the life of a woman experiencing a crisis.
When life brings Suhas, a corporate trainer, to a new city, he comes across a lively young man and a mysterious traveller girl who make him ruminate about his life choices and aspirations.
"Like a Pig in Shit" is a twenty-minute video piecing together audio and visual material found online, a collage technique common to the artist’s practice. It comprises nine movements and a spiraling, ultra-introspective, stream-of-consciousness monologue that diarizes the cumulative effects of life in the mediated, surveilled, freelance matrix.
18 seniors living in retirement homes get the chance to go on a holiday to Greece. In addition to old age, many suffer from diseases such as dementia, cancer and permanent lung disease, but with the help of their companions and Dimitrios "Tackis" Sahpekidis, they get to realize their dreams. In Greece, they are allowed to eat melon on the beach, dance the zorba, drink retzina on the balcony until late at night and swim in the Mediterranean. The motto is that there are no obstacles and that life should be lived all out, until the end.
As an unwavering natural force, Maj Wechselmann produces at least one film a year, which is guaranteed to show troublesome connections between established power structures and maladjustments for people further down the hierarchy of society; this time through the Swedish Television photographer Claes-Göran Bjernér's fascinating fate of life. Bjernér, who reported from 23 wars in 83 countries, had his lungs injured for life in the poison gas disaster in Bhopal, India in 1984. The film begins with him almost dying several times, but miraculously returning to life. In interviews and archival photos, he shares his unique first-hand experiences of war, violence and corruption. A glowing agitation to never stop demanding responsibility for the world's tragedies.
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 break up and move away from her children. Linda may not be able to have children and Marika opted out of her career and has invested everything in being a mother.
An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.
In the late-night-early-hours of the morning, Gary has an existential crisis; he questions the meaning of life, much to the annoyance of his level-headed partner Meg, who attempts to calm him down.
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 different at all?
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.
The utterings of a faceless narrator are intercut with the tale of an estranged woodland inhabitant, who makes a peculiar discovery.
A person ponders where their life is headed, in their own anxiety-ridden mind.
Creeping from the halls of the maze brain, corruption and terror is woven by devils born from the denied errors of mankind.