André Is an Idiot

WINNER! Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival 2025

“One of the most moving, most hilarious, most tragic, most wonderful works of non-fiction filmmaking in many years.” – Jason Gorber, POV Magazine

André is an Idiot is an irreverent, life-affirming and wildly entertaining documentary about death and the strange clarity that arrives when time suddenly becomes finite. When André Ricciardi—a successful San Francisco advertising executive and self-proclaimed “idiot” for skipping the colonoscopy that could have saved him, learns he is dying, he turns his final chapter into an experiment in radical honesty, humor, and curiosity.  A lifelong iconoclast and ad-industry provocateur, André has never done anything the conventional way, and confronting mortality proves no different: he picks up a camera, cracks a joke, and, with the help of his filmmaker friend Tony Benna, begins to ask the biggest questions of his life with disarming candor, an absurdist temperament, and heartfelt emotion. (Dir. Tony Benna, 2026, USA, 88 mins., Not Rated)