Melancholy Movies

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

A record in 35mm film of the first drenching rain on Los Angeles after the devastation of the wildfires.

Five short documental scenes by different directors, each showing their different interpretations of "silence."

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 man vents about his unraveling life to his best friend, unaware that the truth of their conversation extends far beyond his own perspective.

In the wake of Glasgow’s rapid deindustrialization and economic decline in the 90s, a young Fraser falls victim to knife crime and is indelibly...

Short film about a unique girl who was once a talented piano player turned idol, but one day she quietly vanished. Since then, no one has known her...

Two estranged childhood friends, Henry and Carter, reconnect in their early twenties for a final, turbulent canoe trip.

A young woman revisits memories of her fiancé while silently coping with the distance that separates them. Amid routines that now feel...

A young boy sees his brother’s ghost return from the dead to help him overcome his mourning.

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

After feeling that he does not belong to the world around him, he withdraws into himself in an inner world in which he lives through books and...

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...

Some words were left unspoken by two lovers before one of them departed. In desperation, one decided to go back in time to a specific moment in the...

After a freak accident leaves a young man in a surreal limbo, he must team up with a talking puppet to map a mysterious island from fragments of...

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

Does a child really think about so much? Childhood curiosity is an emotion like no other.

When a young woman discovers that the soup she cooks can temporarily restore her father’s fading memories, she must decide whether to sacrifice...

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...