Movies: Existential

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend....

A driver is sent on a simple errand: to pick up a designer t-shirt and a tin of viagra for his boss, who is shacked up in a hotel with his lover. Simple as it sounds, the road trip crisscrosses the chasms of time, class, and character....

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

Deep in a midlife crisis Frank, a faith and financial influencer on the edge of divorce, finds himself befriending Frank, a happily separated carpenter and artist who enjoys life. As their friendship grows and the two men start sharing stories Frank ...

With only a few months to live, a desperate man kidnaps a successful advertising director and makes one demand: Create an online campaign to pay for treatment - or share his fate....

During a walk in the woods a man stumbles upon a gate blocked by a guard who refuses to let him through. Gaining entry quickly becomes his obsession and only goal, to the detriment of all else, including his own physical and mental health....

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

It's an ordinary winter's day when disillusioned Police Inspector Azaad Singh is tasked with delivering a very important file to his superior. Traversing expanses of rural and urban Punjab along the way, he reckons with the state's past and present r...

Foxy and Bonnie are a gay couple living in an anti-religious America, but one of them has a little secret that the other has yet to discover....

Stuck in a repetitive cycle, a woman struggles with the meaninglessness and absurdity of her existence, but finds momentary solace in her cups of tea....

Two brothers come into contact after a very long time due to the discovery that the world is going to end. Together, they find themselves face-to-face with the inevitable dilemma to either save the reality of their relationship or the world's existen...

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 w...

Reeling from his sister’s death, a NYC playwright searches for fulfillment in a sex-and-drug filled odyssey. When he’s reunited with a childhood love, their shared journey of self-discovery catalyzes a profound, existential awakening....

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, ...

A vivacious aspiring social worker brings together five peculiar strangers to help solve their existential problems but finds herself in way over her head....

The film follows a man’s desperate trek down a river as he is continually hindered by strange figures trying to convince him to turn around or stop....

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....

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

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 hi...

A man's life is upended by increasingly threatening phone calls demanding he leave a review for a paperweight purchased online....