Melancholy Movies

A boy who finished school and spends time at home, between routine and sleep, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"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...

Juno, a college freshman, is faced with her own personal melancholy of longing to reconnect with her best friend, Elizabeth.

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...

A young girl named 'Clara' who suffers from social anxiety, depression, and having friends that left her behind meets 'Lucy', whose company is...

A short put together through old home videos on a camcorder of my childhood.

An introspective narrative that follows the daily lives of characters immersed in existential and identity crises within urban environments. Trapped...

Set during the turbulent shift from silent to sound, this film intertwines the lives of a struggling filmmaker and a solitary fisherman. A meditation...

A fragmented documentary portrait of Sammy, an adult with undiagnosed autism growing up in Jersey. Through cut-up interviews, island landscapes and...

A tortured soul seeks meaning in life. "The Wide Open Project" is an artistic and experimental visual album about the emerging artist Zinity. Created...

On a psychedelic night, the protagonist speaks endlessly to his friends, friends we never hear. Beneath his loud, crude monologue, a different figure...

A young witch in a modern magical world, refuses to let her beloved old cat die. Willing to do anything, she breaks magical laws to save him, but...

"Why Me?" is a short documentary film that boldly recounts the extraordinary story of Robert Diamubeni, the sole survivor of flight 9T-TCG in 1990...

The Fenestration of Suburbia is a melancholic social documentation of a cold Canadian suburb.

Struggling with writer's block, Sam, a young filmmaker writing their next screenplay experiences a nightmare showing them the sacrifices made in the...