"Daydream"

DAYDREAM is a cold, urban short film about emptiness, duty, and the feeling of functioning within a concrete world instead of truly living. The film is set in a desolate European high-rise landscape — brutalist architecture, a gray sky, wet asphalt. Everything feels heavy, worn down, emotionally drained. At the center are two people moving wordlessly through this environment. Their relationship remains unspoken, yet palpable: professional, distant, bound by something they do not need to name. It feels as if they are returning from a “job” — not spectacular, not heroic, but routine and internally empty. The film does not tell a classic story, but instead works through atmosphere: long gazes slow movements cold light reduced colors an almost oppressive silence Violence is not shown, but it lingers beneath the surface — as a possibility, as a past, as part of a system that has shaped these figures. The title “DAYDREAM” stands in deliberate contrast to the world being shown. Dreaming seems almost impossible here. And it is precisely within this contradiction that the film’s tension lies: Between harsh reality and the quiet longing for something else. For warmth. For meaning. For an escape that may never come. DAYDREAM feels like a fragment of a larger life — a frozen moment between decision and resignation. A film about emotional coldness, modern loneliness, and the silent act of moving forward, even though everything inside has long since come to a standstill.