Melancholy Movies

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...

Doina, a shepherd’s wife in ancient Romania, turns her daily routine into ritual. When nature foretells his death, her journey through grief...

A man who once found solace in his friendships now has to fill the emptiness with candy.

Hiatos is a performance art video that treats melancholy as a colonial wound. Through performance and dance, it reveals perspectives of time,...

A group of girls are dancing in a field, when suddenly one of them is harmed after seeking shelter from a storm. Struggling to keep up with the herd...

Simbiso, a determined 17-year-old girl from a rural village, carries the weight of raising her younger siblings after losing their parents. When she...

An orphaned teenager is visiting his parents’ grave - once a place of solace, now a reminder of his growing emptiness.

A dystopian, post-modern retelling of the Easter story.

A depressed man finds himself in a silent nightmare of self-reflection.

A feature-length road trip drama, set on the iconic London canals. We are narrated an unlikely story mixing reality with hints of British folklore....

After discovering a mysterious camera that transports him into fleeting moments of the past, a grieving photography student attempts to rewrite a...

A man who struggles with the effects of epilepsy and heavy medication reconciles about his choices.

A disillusioned Marine and an Afghan soldier escape the battlefield in a battered Volkswagen bus, journeying through a surreal, war-torn purgatory...

A metaphorical love story about the dream of peace, freedom and solidarity in Europe, with the reality of right-wing politics and terror trying to...

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

Fifteen years ago, a figure shrouded in darkness left a crying baby on the steps of a church. Now, a private investigator brings news that Audrey and...

Patrick, a passionate photographer, travels 6,000 miles from London to Hong Kong to reunite with his girlfriend, Mia, whom he met during her exchange...

A movie including footages of nature talking about the journey of life

Two siblings who are completely different from each other are cleaning dishes as they argue about their differences only to realize that one of them...