Absurdism Movies

A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall....

After being hit in the head, a distraught woman must come to terms with herself on if her injury will be fatal

During a chicken picnic, Yellow Guy gets upset after Green Bird kills a butterfly. Yellow Guy then meets a butterfly that takes him on a journey to...

A cast with no set roles stuck in a theatre, trying to make sense of their situation.

Part lyrical document, part farce, Animals Under Anaesthesia: Speculations On the Dreamlife of Beasts explores the imaginary unconscious minds of...

Katelyn discovers she is a character in a film after fighting back against 'The Narrator' that controls her life.

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense...

Amid the continuous rise in the prices of everyday necessities, Tes Fuentes enters a pageant armed with confidence, dreams, and cheeks painted with...

The reclusive and over-analyzing artist Arvid Rikh must find inspiration and overcome his constant disorganized, abstract and self-critical thoughts...

The impossible happens in completely random scenarios.

Three absurd, seemingly unrelated stories each tell a different tale about people processing grief, and about the people around to witness it.

A mysterious entity closes in around John, keeping him trapped inside his house. The only thing protecting him from being crushed is the egg timer...

A reworking of an earlier film, Institutional Quality, in which the same test was given. In the earlier film, the person taking the test was not...

A student moves in with a family that lives in an underground house in the middle of the forest, far from civilization. His hopes of peace and quiet...

Five thirty-something men in as many separate segments struggle to grapple with the relentless absurdity of their respective existences.

When a young filmmaker meets a living film legend and an enigma Albert, for his Mumbai based short film, Albert throws the script away and instead...

Valentin loves old musicals, Adélaïde doesn't. Valentin loves life. Adélaïde, not so much. In any case, he's not afraid of...

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.

Following a devastating break-up, a bitter man decides to become a clown only to end up as the entertainment for his ex's wedding three years later.