“At its surface, Bearded Tooth is surreal, darkly funny, and wildly imaginative. A bureaucratic afterlife disguised as a luxury wellness retreat. But beneath the satire lives something raw: a meditation on identity, conformity, and the quiet tragedy of suppressing who you really are.

We live in a world obsessed with reinvention, with branding ourselves, optimizing our existence and curating perfection. We’re constantly told we can be anyone. But what if we’re running from the one person we were always meant to be?

That’s the paradox this film sits in, the tension between who we present and who we are; the pressure to perform and the cost of that performance. It explores the absurdity of modern social values, the cycles of conformity, the loss of identity, pressures to achieve, the illusion of freedom and the search for love — all through a surreal lens that blends tragedy with absurdity.

Why This Film? We’re living in an identity crisis, globally and individually. Everyone’s trying to “heal,” to “optimize,” to reinvent, to escape the systems that made them. But healing isn’t linear. Reinvention isn’t always honest. And sometimes, in the pursuit of freedom, we create new prisons.

Bearded Tooth is a story about waking up. Not in the spiritual sense. But in the human sense. It’s about shedding the narratives we've inherited, choosing consciously who we want to be and finding someone willing to do that with you.

At its heart, this film is a love story. Not just between two people, but between a person and their most truthful self.

That’s the kind of story I want to tell.”