Melancholy Movies

Mr. Königsberg is the owner of a small paper business. Despite a satisfying life, he is haunted by a vague melancholy and suffers from a...

Jacob & Amelia grapple with the loss of their unborn child.

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

Henry is a slacker floating through young adulthood earning a measly income from selling his body as a human punching bag. Meanwhile he wonders if...

"At that time (late 1992), I made a film for British television, Channel 4, called Las Soledades, the name of a long poem by Góngora. It was...

An intimate portrait of Salt Lake City and its surroundings. Shot on 16mm film.

Sonder is a trilingual (in English, Hindi, and Punjabi) mood piece about the ordinariness of life. It is a celebration of the seemingly simple,...

One man's struggle with a repetitive daily routine prompts an inner monologue on the value of memories and time.

mens·beeld (het; o; meervoud: mensbeelden) A "Mensbeeld" is a well-thought-out and coherent representation of what it means to be human....

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...

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

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

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...

In this follow-up to Blood for Irina and Queen of Blood, the vampire Irina rises again like a ghost from her watery grave to bring bloodlust and...

For 17 years, from the age of about six or seven, Kathy Chu keeps a diary. It's a complete fiction, denying disappointments (when her older sister...

A short animated film about a little boy named Less and his trip through the forest.

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...

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

A short film poem about transitioning to the next chapter of your life