She woke up from a coma and reality shattered—now the asylum wants her back.
Nirvana falls into a coma after a boating accident. After she wakes up, doctors find that she can no longer distinguish between reality and imagination. Nirvana decides to escape before being taken to a psychiatric institution.
Acting
Carolina Oliveira's fractured, fearless descent into unreliable perception.
Direction
Elarrat's slippery visual language keeps you as lost as Nirvana.
Sound
Audio design that weaponizes silence and disorientation.
Director
Roger Elarrat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Elarrat draws from actual cases of 'Cotard's syndrome' and 'Alice in Wonderland syndrome' to ground Nirvana's perceptual breaks in neurological reality.
The psychiatric institution scenes were filmed in a functioning 1920s asylum; cast reported 'unsettling energy' on set.
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