Movies: Experimental surrealism

Two detectives in New Hampshire meet with a family whose grandfather has been mysteriously murdered. The family and detectives soon come to believe that a werewolf is behind the killings, and the family starts to get picked off one by one in this dar...

Switching between their surreal perspectives, two high school students attempt to find their purpose as they battle their inner demons and a narcissistic society. Therapist, Victoria Blane, attempts to calm their thoughts as she faces her own delusio...

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To mark the 30th anniversary of L'Étrange Festival, Gaumont is opening up its archives to offer the best of its most secret, bizarre and crazy images, digitized for the first time. A unique program featuring black magic, surrealistic happenings, worl...

A man is overcome with anxiety after it turns tuesday and he is still wearing monday's socks....

In a waiting room in the space between the living and the beyond, an unlikely pair sits impatiently for their final reckoning....

A woman lies dead, covered by nature, in the Garden of Eden....

Karma, an international high school student from Sikkim struggles to fit in and hold onto his cultural identity when he is stuck at home with his host sibling, Alex....

Compulsively embracing his brooding homosexuality, the Smiling Man walks the final circle....

Is the eye the window of the soul? - Mydriasis is a movie that reflects about the early discoveries of queerness and its impact on the self perception of a person....

An experimental short film exploring the interplay between sound and visual discomfort, recorded in a dance hall....

A cine-essay about the ego death and consciousness rebirth....

A dishwasher becomes lost in their daydreams....

Mixing imagery from its director’s real dreams, improvisation and fragments of unfinished film ideas, this film is a series of scenes of bizarre characters living in a small English town named Whitebridge....

“Belladonna Museum” is a short film that portrays a personal experience of a transgender woman in a tragic love relationship: it is a visual poetry that reinterprets iconic paintings from surrealism and post-impressionism to address themes such as em...

A Detective (Meka) and his Assistant (Gorre) trying to solve a murder case but ending up in a movie script. Are they really in a script?...

This is the tale of a meandering nomad, from a starved and barren rummage to a plunge into immaterial primitive madness and chaotic metamorphosis, narrated through a four-chapter surreal descent, where sight and sound are one if not none....

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A mysterious figure explores the uncanny and terrifying space between light and darkness....

Sebastian, an ambitious magazine creator wants to explore the world and document his experiences. During his maladaptive daydreams, reality comes crashing down on him....