Melancholy Movies

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces...

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

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...

Casey, a country lad running from a small-town scandal, finds himself down and out in big city Sydney. When he meets city lad Tib both men find...

Improvised over the course of a single night in Paris, this short film follows Fanny and Alexis, who meet by chance on a warm August evening. Fanny...

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...

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

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

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

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

An inside glimpse of how it feels to be a teen in today's disconnected world. PURGATORY HOUSE chronicles the after-life journey of Silver Strand: a...

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...

The film tells the tragic life story of an actor named Farhad, who remains faithful to national values and deeply feels the pain of their loss....

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...

After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride...

A new-to-town carer forms an unlikely bond with her first patient, an elderly man with onset dementia, and together they find ways to reconcile with...

Zane finds solace in their time at church, a peace that is not always reciprocated by others in the community. With a pastor they have known since...

While walking through the woods at dusk, a man makes a disturbing discovery.