in:CUBE
2026 · 33m · Bangladesh
Directed by Muktadi Jabbar Ar-Rafi
Genres: drama, surrealism, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
Consumed by self-imposed isolation and total apathy, a young man’s mind turns violently against him, trapping him in a psychological puzzle box of his own making where he must fight his own fractured identities to survive.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A young man's mind as a literal maze he has to fight through—it's the kind of self-aware psychological trap that most scouts would mistake for pretension, but Ar-Rafi commits so fully to the surrealist violence of it that it stops being clever and becomes genuinely unsettling.
The film sits uncomfortably between Angelopoulos's meditative alienation and contemporary horror lexicon, and while its fractured-identity conceit risks overfamiliarity, the structural rigidity of the 'cube' premise—treating form as thematic inevitability—shows genuine curatorial intelligence.
The decisive move here is treating apathy not as flatness but as *sound*—the way silence and distortion function as active psychological texture rather than mere absence—and that singular choice elevates what could've been a concept film into something that actually *feels* like fractured consciousness.