Philosophy Movies

A personal, poetic essay film exploring eye contact, social anxiety, and the nature of connection between self and other.

After being for eleven years in the city, José António Baptista returned to his home village to focus on literature.

An essay/documentary film that meditates on the concept of life, living & surviving. It tries to raise the questions on how we live, why we live the...

During a writer's block, a frustrated writer becomes obsessed with the idea that he or she is a fictional character.

Amid Guanajuato's vibrant streets, an aging filmmaker becomes a modern Don Quixote, joined by a spirited young animator as his loyal Sanchia....

These last major lectures by Hans Heinz Holz (1927–2011) follow his philosophical reflection from Parmenides to Karl Marx. They were recorded...

An astrophysics professor leads a lecture about a black hole that absorbs everything around it. He doesn't know yet that he will also be enveloped by...

No idea is more fundamental to who we are than the idea that we are free to choose what we do and who we will become. This idea is known as free...

Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality began to haunt him, and he had to rethink everything.

A visceral documentary focusing on the Slovenian collective art movement known as NSK ('Neue Slowenische Kunst') and its varied branches: 'Laibach',...

An extensive interview with legendary director Andrei Tarkovsky conducted by Donatello Baglivo.

Following a tragic event that shattered her life, renowned author Alice Chevalier struggles to find meaning in her existence. Searching for answers...

What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?

A girl meets her soul

Christopher Gabriel, a young American, suffers from constant nightmares. These dreams have been coming for a long time, and nothing seems to be able...

A short film about the meeting of a Trappist monk and a Zen Buddhist master.