Bird, Louise & Somebody Else(2021)

Juxtaposition(id)

Oslo, August 31st(no)

A recovering drug addict is granted a day’s leave from rehab and returns to Oslo, where he reconnects with friends, faces the weight of his past, and struggles with uncertainty about his future. Over the course of one day, he drifts through encounters that reflect his longing for connection and his deep sense of alienation.

Gastropod(en)

The utterings of a faceless narrator are intercut with the tale of an estranged woodland inhabitant, who makes a peculiar discovery.

A Guide to Second Date Sex(en)

Laura and Ryan are perfect for each other: they both love Meryl Streep, have been totally destroyed by previous relationships, and have no idea what they are supposed to do tonight. They also both know that they'll have to pretend to be completely different to how they've ever been previously, in the hope of getting it right this time. How bad can a second date really go and what is there to lose? Ryan and Laura are about to find out.

Going Dark with Earnest Sweetgrass: Or A Comprehensive Guide on How to Die(en)

Earnest Sweetgrass spends his 21,000th birthday thinking big thoughts about what it means to be nobody.

Artboy(en)

On Halloween night, a shy high school artist must navigate social validation and the bittersweet lines of friendship and heartbreak.

A Luz Crua da Realidade(pt)

Barbie(en)

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

Honeymoon with Mom(en)

When Shannon is dumped at the altar, her single mother, Marla, suggests they take the planned honeymoon to a remote island resort together. Marla, a publisher of a top magazine, tells Shannon that the trip to paradise will make their relationship stronger, but she has ulterior motives: she needs a big interview to help her magazine, and the resort owner is the perfect catch.

The Perfect Employee(vi)

A Simple Dinner(en)

Dinner from two perspectives.

Louder Than Bombs(en)

Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's older son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in - and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.

Isekai(sq)

Genc gets into existential crisis, loses his will and purpose for his life, as he thinks that he is the cause of his roommate's death. As an escape from this reality, he uses the virtual (reality) world.

The Man Who Sleeps(fr)

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.

Scarecrow(bn)

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?

Dissonanz(de)

Town Owls(en)

Sam and Callum get lost on their way to film a wedding and end up having an existential crisis as they try and get back on track. Will they make it to the wedding in time?

Repentance(ka)

The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.

Somewhere In Between(en)

Two will-they-won't-they friends try to keep it simple on New Year's Eve– until their house is crashed by a man from the future who tells them that the fate of the universe rests in their hands.

Flying Blind(en)

A young man, in the midst of an existential crisis, goes to his uncle for help.