Movies Similar to Blink in the Desert

The 12 Inch Pianist(2025)

A bar joke goes awry, unraveling into a surreal tale that explores the acceptance of self, others, and queer identity.

Svatohor(1984)

This animated puppet film based on Russian folk tales tells the story of the hero Svätohor and his battle with the dragon Goryn Gorynych.

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Playing God(2024)

Fragile clay Sculptures come to life in a bare workshop, craving more than just existence. When their Sculptor abandons them, they must discover the power of belonging.

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Cena al Cimitero(2021)

A widowed grandmother lives alone in her house, every day they repeat themselves with the same habits, when one day something unexpected happens. From the radio there is a rumor that something terrible is awakening from the cemeteries, the dead have returned to walk among us!

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God is a Pelican

“God is a Pelican” follows two queer middle-school girls, Madi and Josie, who both recognize they are different from other students, and don’t fit into the religious white suburbia around them. They decide to create their own religion, a religion for the weirdos and “others” of the world.

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火藥, burn my eyes

In 1967, Beulah struck Reynosa. Family survives through images from memory circling the wreck. Rituals of celebration and violence like hurricane, shift between dancing, cyanotypes, blue fire and lost family archive. We have come to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail. Thus invent colors that burn the eyelid like 火藥.

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Paper Daughter(2026)

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Lincoln in the Bardo

Abraham Lincoln grieves over the death of his 11-year-old son, Willie.

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Gnome(2015)

A magical creature finds a modern solution to his problem.

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Sierra(2022)

A father and his son are losing the race. To win, the boy turns himself into a car tyre. Sierra looks at toxic masculinity through dark irony, while pulling us into the surreal car racing world. Loosely inspired by the director's childhood, this animated black comedy includes fragments of a stop motion film animated by the director's father during Soviet Estonia.

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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On(2010)

Marcel the shell gives an outline of his life.

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Cell Buddies(2025)

Sam, a grumpy raccoon is stuck sharing a cell with Bob, a sweet but dim manatee. Sam hatches an escape plan. In their chaotic jailbreak Sam’s hardened edges soften as Bob’s loyalty shines. Will they escape? Maybe. But together, they’ve already cracked something bigger: trust.

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Madeleine(2023)

Every week, two friends born 67 years apart share their life stories in a senior home's living room. The younger friend convinces the 107-year-old lady to join her in an adventure: a road trip to the sea.

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Ovary-Acting(2025)

A harried thirty-something woman is forced to decide whether she wants to be a mother after unexpectedly giving birth to her reproductive organs at her sister’s baby shower.

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Narco Blues(2016)

On summer vacation a young teenager finds himself hanging out alone on the streets of his neighbourhood, all his friends having gone to the country with their parents. Near his home he meets a disturbing character, a drug pusher looking for clients, who introduces him to an artificial paradise. The teenager discovers a seductive and terrifying world that frequently draws him back to his neighbour.

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Nightangel(1986)

When a man becomes blind, his life is all turned around. He can only use his touch to get around in his house. The objects become enemies. But an angel is looking over him.

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Tux and Fanny(2019)

Tux and Fanny are two friends living together in the forest and these are their adventures!

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This Land Is a Woman(2025)

Inspired by the poem Hamza by the great Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan, compares and connects the mystery of the fertility of the Palestinian land to the mysterious power of it's women.

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Everkeep(2026)

A haunting and tender fable of innocence, wonder, and the passage of time, "Everkeep" follows Odette, a lonely girl who dwells in the vast, enchanted expanse of a castle garden. Wrapped in her own world, she clings to childhood magic, convinced she can remain in this place forever.

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The Dying World(2024)

Astrid lives torn between two worlds: a boundless, sterile office and a desolate blue realm composed of trash she struggles to recollect. When she finds a door to her childhood bedroom, she feeds what’s left of it to her only friend, Crow, who wonders how much longer she can live in these fragmented realities.

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