Melancholy Movies

Angus, a lonely grocery store worker, finds an unlikely friend in a lobster after working a long night shift.

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

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...

Strangers revolve around a solitary photographer who captures portraits of unknown individuals by confining himself inside a photo booth. However,...

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,...

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

My Dear Melancholy, a micro-short that explores a personified version of melancholy and his dilemma of holding on or letting go

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman attempts to reconnect to her late love through the piano.

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected,...

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...

Aurora and Bernardo are experiencing moments of happiness, but their joy is interrupted by the onset of war.

Four inversions of an increasingly melancholic relationship

This short film follows the story of a student who is forced to leave the country because of a lack of a valid visa. On his last day in Berlin, he...

After Peter Cercis faces months of writer’s block trying to write his latest story, he tries to look for motivation, as his "other half" quite...

In the not too distant future, a man without hope attempts to save the life he was hired to end with HELPER, a world changing technology that allows...

A psycho-geographic journey through London and its history, as undertaken by an unseen narrator and his companion, Robinson, at the time of the 1992...

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