Cillian Murphy plays a man on an existential mission in All of This Unreal Time, a short film that will have its international premiere at the Manchester International Festival. His nameless character walks through the empty locked streets of an unknown city late at night, reflecting on shame, guilt, and masculinity, and poetically berates himself for not treating others, and the world, with more care. Many people will have been on this road for the past year and a half. He declares into the ether, "I came out here to apologize." "I find myself in a dark wood in the middle of my life, and now I'm here, in the forest of my thoughts, where every tree is a rebuke, and I realize, I must speak freely now before I lose you." Throughout the 25-minute short, it's never apparent what the Peaky Blinders star is sorry for or to whom he is apologizing. However, writer Max Porter, who authored the original story before the pandemic, intends to appeal to the better natures of most viewers.