Melancholy Movies

After a tragic loss shatters her family, Mia battles grief and turmoil, forced to choose between escaping the past or succumbing to it.

An elderly piano teacher recently diagnosed with terminal cancer lives in fear of death. But her real fear is who will take care of her cat, her only...

Secret ladder. Borne from firmament. Stone, atonal waters. Chorus of silent hands. A vanishing act. Night is burning. Night is burning white. ...

Set in northern Kerala, the film narrates the journey of Alice in search of her missing husband, a college lecturer. During her quest, she slowly...

A man steadily bashes through the snow. He disappears and the trees, covered in white, shift and show a beautiful array of hidden colors. A poetic,...

A piece of visual poetry that shows the world seen through the eyes of a person in a constant state of anhedonia

Phone and video camera footage of Jane's lonely family trip to Europe. Takes place months before certain events take place.

The man who isolates himself from the world to delve deeply into his thoughts. Searching less for answers and more for memories that can bring him...

Collaboration with Amadou, who also produced the soundtrack.

When an ocean-fascinated cowboy from the Brazilian backlands discovers that the farm where he has worked all his life will be sold, he abandons...

Sofia break up with Nicola and goes away forever to the Fiji Islands with a 12-hour time zone from Italy. Since that day Nicola begins to have only...

Nestor is a boy immersed in melancholy. In an attempt to forget an old love, he begins a relationship with Isabel, an android.

In the mid-20th century, in a forested valley between Italy and Yugoslavia, a stingy widower befriends a young woman and helps her depart across the...

First short film from Queens-based Filmmaker Shawn Solomon that captures various memories and moments across 2023.

L'amour (love). La mort (death). Two French words that could confuse a foreigner, but never a native. Messenger V writes for a company that sends...

A short put together through old home videos on a camcorder of my childhood.

When my friend Whitney added me to her ABC’s of Quarantine Film Festival lineup in March, I was excited and then immediately thought about the...

Set in 1948, a year after independence, Gajar Ka Halwa is a deeply personal tale of love, loss, and the invisible scars of Partition. In the...

A César nominated short animation about the impact on a small-town clerk by the arrival of a female hitch-hiker.