Melancholy Movies

In 2016, Aekaphong’s uncle was murdered in his house alongside his wife. A year later, Aekaphong returns to his hometown to investigate the...

A young couple in their twenties is confronted with the fear of monotony in their daily lives.

"While I'm Away" is a first-year student animated short. This short is about the sense of not fully belonging to one place, and missing the other...

A Documentary about bird carving in the islands of Virginia.

Originally presented as an installation, this raw, haunting short by Basma al-Sharif depicts a horse ride at dusk on a farm in Gaza through...

In this experimental short film, a young man and woman enter into a relationship with one another and quickly learn the ups and downs of intertwining...

While walking through the woods at dusk, a man makes a disturbing discovery.

Alys is a neurodivergent young film student who identifies with the bass, an instrument that, like her, holds everything together from the background...

A hitman does one last job to get home before he deteriorates completely.

An experimental coming-of-age odyssey through someone's troubled mind, going from country to country, landscape to landscape, growing up in the...

Zane finds solace in their time at church, a peace that is not always reciprocated by others in the community. With a pastor they have known since...

Set in the 1930s, two siblings use their imaginations as a coping mechanism to come to terms with their mother's mysterious disappearance.

Dangling from a high window, a young non-binary person is on the cusp of life and death. Flashes of film, literature, art (paintings) and cultural...

When illness forces her away from her beloved trauma cleaning business, Sandra Pankhurst faces up to her traumatic past and begins a search for her...

Months after the unexpected death of his wife, an embittered, middle-aged painter flees to a cabin in rural New England where her presence, and more,...

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....

As he declutters his house for a move, a grieving man faces the ghosts tied to his belongings.