The First Puff

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

After inadvertently drinking himself to death, Gabriel, a downtrodden recent college graduate, is presented with one final conversation with The Guide before he moves on. As the two discuss and recall key moments from Gabriel’s life, they share a growing, but transient bond all while Gabriel finds a peace with his end and an appreciation for the life he has lived.

Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.

As an old man, Jan slowly begins to waste away in his retirement home. But during a day trip to the Dutch National Mobility Scooter Racing Championships, he rediscovers himself. There, he undergoes an inner journey that brings him to terms with time, through the past, the present, and the future.

A recluse indifferent to everything around him seeks pleasure in one thing: a steaming, hot shower. One day, his heating goes off.

Two friends, plagued by bouts of 'existentiality', begin to doubt their existence and spiral into trying to find what life is truly about.

The film is about a filmmaker who is trying to make a better film. They are trying to make decisions with fun rather than stress. They are also trying to make decisions that will make the film more enjoyable for the audience.

Maria is a shellfisherwoman and midwife in a small village in the Illa de Arousa in 1970s Galicia. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee to Portugal.

In Tokyo, a girl and her boyfriend spend a night talking about their life, their precarious condition and their difficulties to earn a living, their place in the world, if ever they have one...

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay friend plan on attending the wildest party of the year. But they'll only make it if they can survive the drug trips, suicides, trysts, mutilations and alien abductions that occur as one surreal day unfolds.

Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.

Tranquility is a silent short film centering feelings of emptiness and the search for fulfillment.

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.

Feeling suffocated by a possessive boyfriend, work and suburban life, a young woman starts spending the weekends in her Paris apartment in order to reclaim some of her lost freedom.

A constant journey from outer space to a town in Norway, where we encounter small pieces of people’s lives.

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 brother's, still lives with the guilt until she finally shares her nightmare experience with her own adult daughter.

Self-important author Leon joins his best friend on a summer holiday near the Baltic Sea to complete his novel. When they arrive, they find their house is already occupied by a carefree woman who challenges Leon to open up. Meanwhile, forest wildfires rage around them and impending disaster looms.

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?

Just Try Your Best explores the surreal and absurd journey of a young man lost at a chaotic costume party. His simple search for a bathroom spirals into a maze of strange encounters and cryptic exchanges that challenge his understanding of reality. As he faces bizarre characters and existential confusion, the film dives into themes of identity, uncertainty, and the struggle to find meaning in a disorienting world where nothing feels solid or real.