Pedro Subercaseaux

The classic tale of clueless youths seeking hallucinogenic euphoria gets a funky twist in Sebastián Silva’s Sundance-winning road trip through the majestic plains of Chile. As American tourists caught in a battle of will, Michael Cera and Gaby Hoffmann are equal parts discomfiting and hilarious.

After years of experience in art and music, Sebastían Silva made his filmmaking debut with an offbeat meta-comedy that pops with absurdist detail and fantastical performances. Life is submerged in black and white in this surreal look at art-making and mortality—color, meanwhile, belongs to cinema.