Melancholy Movies

A dystopian, post-modern retelling of the Easter story.

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 everyt...

A metaphorical love story about the dream of peace, freedom and solidarity in Europe, with the reality of right-wing politics and terror trying to des...

Antoine is a 9-year-old autistic child. His perception of the world is both strange and wonderful. Her sister Emilie, in her teenage years, is seeking...

Just after stealing the urn containing the ashes of her deceased lover, Paloma, a drag queen, meets Mike, a quiet and gloomy trucker.

As the nights go by, a young filmmaker uses their video camera to express their thoughts, dreams, and inner turmoil to an online friend.

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

On a fateful San Francisco night in the early 60s, Condor nightclub performer Carol Doda was lowered to the stage on a floating piano, topless. Word s...

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

Soon after learning of the death of his mother Pérola, Mauro returns to his old family home in Bauru (São Paulo, Brazil). A look back into his mother’...

After receiving a phone call, a man feels his inner world come to a standstill. Recalling the event decades later, he relives how everything changed i...

Aurora and Bernardo are experiencing moments of happiness, but their joy is interrupted by the onset of war.

Two long-time internet friends - Ted, the hometown artist, and Liz, a globe-hopping humanitarian. On the night of his gallery opening, on a river that...

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 reputation as...

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

ANA C. uses videoart and videoperformance to express the relationship between the marginalized poet Ana Cristina Cesar with art itself.

A piece of visual poetry that shows the world seen through the eyes of a person in a constant state of anhedonia

A young woman relives her last moments with her fiancé before having to say goodbye.