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"Crise existencial" from Petter Baiestorf. Brazil, 1998

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

A depressed teenager becomes addicted to laughing gas.

Welcome to a day in the life of the Existential Crisis Hotline...

Weary of his daily routine, Alvin travels to the great outdoors to discover his significance. He is reborn in the waters of the Great Lakes and soothed by the nature around him, which is an especially impressive adventure for a small dog.

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.

A young underwear model, unfamiliar with rejection, crosses paths with a middle-aged woman dealing with a serious version of the same problem.

Toothpick Dick doesn't know his name.

Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily pain, and every encounter brings him closer to finding his place in the world.

With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.

While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

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.

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche.

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

In their finely appointed Connecticut home, Agnes and Tobias have grown used to the imperfection and fragility of their marriage. Quietly nursing their grief over the death of their son, they get by well enough together. Agnes' boozy sister wanders in and out, and they allow anxiety-stricken friends to move into an upstairs room. But, when their daughter, Julia, shows up announcing her fourth divorce, long-repressed emotions come to the surface.

A man finds himself stuck in a mysterious time loop, reliving the same day again and again. As the cycle repeats, he is forced to confront his daily routines, question his relationships, and search for meaning in a world that refuses to change.

At the peak of his career, billionaire Krishnakant Jhunjhunwala realizes the futility of his success at the cost of his health. Leaving his empire behind, he seeks solace in Varanasi, embarking on a spiritual journey that transcends life and death, searching for true meaning beyond material existence.

Sometimes you’re at home with a friend and you tell them that if you don’t leave you’ll be late and the response is a crazy, unexpected and utter frenzy.

Henry, a man at a low ebb, meets a long-lost identical twin, Patrick, who appears to be much better than him in every way, sparking an existential crisis of dangerous proportions.

In the backlands of Goiás, Brazil, brutish men who cannot deal with their weaknesses are constantly abandoned by the women they love. Sad and bitter, these men turn violently against each other.

A man is fired from his job on mars.

Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.

Two friends go on a hike after a long time of not seeing each other.

Bhavitavya, a philosophy student, is full of questions about life. When his favourite professor passes away, Bhavitavya embarks on a journey of self-discovery, wondering who he is and what his life means.

Hussein is a train inspector who feels guilty after a passenger dies during his attempt to escape detection. His daughter, Aisha, battles a lot of existential questions about God.

Explores the quest for understanding of a young dancer in a world that seems to ignore her.

A man seeking purpose to live his life, questioning his faith and the existence of humankind. What exactly we were born for?