Melancholy Movies

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...

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

In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.

Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by...

Lola, a woman consumed by loneliness after losing everyone in her life, finds solace in reliving Christmas morning every day with her mannequin son,...

A socially disconnected young man with Tourette's Syndrome undergoes an experimental surgery to correct his disorder, but as his symptoms start to...

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

A mysterious, troubled boy meets an impressionable girl in their small town. Together they embark on a romance where his love turns into obsession as...

In the early sixties, a sexually conflicted teenager finds faith and acceptance after escaping the tortures of electrotherapeutic conversion therapy.

Four inversions of an increasingly melancholic relationship

A man who struggles with the effects of epilepsy and heavy medication reconciles about his choices.

Assaf, a cynical boy frustrated by the death of his older brother Uri in Lebanon, refuses to join his family for the Memorial Day ceremony. Out of...

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...

Returning from Rome, Warsaw writer Wacław Kisielecki's car breaks down late one evening on a country road, forcing him and his chauffeur,...

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,...

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...

First film by Julio Bressane shot in exile, "Memoirs" is a film about a man who repeatedly kills the same type of woman in same places, the same way....

Learn what really happened during the “gorilla glue crisis”

Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz,...