The Art Of Self Destruction - Director's cut

Way Back Then

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The Painter

An aging artist confronts his traumatic past as he paints a portrait of the beachside home he grew up in.

I'll Never Forget the Last Time

A movie that portrays a reflection about sense of being self, to love and to be loved.

Cry No More

Director and actor D.C. Stoy explores the nuanced nature of a character's non-linear timeline, which pits the mundaneness of stability against his internal desire for more out of his life, where risk is the reward.

Los Colores Pardos

Jujuba & Nicolas

Un amor

Upon settling in the countryside village of La Escapa, Nat accepts a disturbing sexual proposal by neighbour Andreas, paving the way for a self-consuming passion.

Undercurrent

Kanae's husband disappeared without a trace while on a union trip. Though usually headstrong and independent, the woman becomes plagued with worry over what happened to him, and is unable to move on with her life. Thus, Kanae decides to hire a private investigator, and keeps running the public bathhouse to the best of her abilities. As he tries to figure out the truth about her husband, Kanae must deal with the stress from a work-intensive job, meddlesome neighbors, and recurring nightmares in which she is drowning.

Hambre

Leni and Paul are „all good!“, as Paul likes to emphasise. But on this evening even he realises that this is not true at all. Their new neighbours, Mariam and Ayla, who come over for dinner embody exactly what Leni and Paul have not been for one another as a couple for years. While finishing up dessert, the relationship of the perfect couple, centered on their fluffy dog Amor, unfolds.

All the Things I Should Have Said

In the countryside, a man lives isolated from the world. More than 200 years ago, a couple puts their naïve love for each other above anything else, with tragic results. Two people form a peculiar intertemporal conversation on the meaning of loss, grief and rediscovering one’s self after a life-altering event.

Rose Quartz

On a busy beach on the Aegean Coast, we meditate on a turning point in life.

MIRA PAPÁ!

Nous sommes tombés bien bas

A young man places his last hope in a strange surgeon. Plunged into the depths of his soul, he meets his inner doctor.

Opposites

While her relationship with her mother worsens, a grieving young adult wants to see her father, one last time...

The Curse of the Main Guy

A man who spends his nights offering emotional support struggles to confront his own inner life by day. Aspiring to be a writer, he drifts through routines of procrastination and self-neglect, unable to return to the page. As time slips away, failed attempts at reinvention force a reckoning with the version of himself he has been avoiding.

Lengwìa

After an agonizing school year bruises his relationship with his well-liked older brother Jonah, socially awkward Teddy meets Cole, a disarming boy, by chance on the street. As their friendship deepens, actions begin to speak louder than words, unraveling the fragile balance between brotherhood, belonging, and yearning during a blistering summer break.

Coming to Nothing

Coming to Nothing follows a disgruntled young man trapped between guilt and survival, shaped by an alcoholic father and the unforgivable weight of abandoning his younger brother. Every attempt to cope—through love, indulgence, or isolation—only deepens the damage, turning connection into betrayal and self-protection into ruin. Whether he chooses responsibility or escape, the outcome is the same: loss. The film confronts the brutal truth that sometimes living through the wreckage hurts more than almost not living at all.