Movies: Melancholy

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

A young adult's first-hand account of "accidentally becoming human again" after, and with, trauma induced depression. Lo-fi, vulnerable, and uniquely youthful, "The Afterlife" is a melancholic affirmation of life after death....

Secret ladder. Borne from firmament. Stone, atonal waters. Chorus of silent hands. A vanishing act. Night is burning. Night is burning white. Flesh, a white fire. Avian. Given. Secret ladder. Mirror, become mirror....

As one of them is grappling with the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy, two cousins have a heart-to-heart about their family, their lives, and their futures....

An animated adventure following the Seventh Doctor as he attempts to stop General Tannis' plans for conquest of the universe....

There are three friends in their fifties who, unable to have conventional relations with women, always call girls to call them to keep them company. They are the subjects who were born in the 60s, with all the explosions of rebellion and the search ...

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. Filmed on the streets of London....

A young woman spends her afternoons reminiscing about happier days. Her routine is interrupted by an invitation that promises to renew her strength....

After 50 years of marriage, Wayne, an octogenarian with Alzheimer's, seeks a forbidden love from his youth....

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected, politically uncertain modern world while on a trip to a remote Canadian island in this avant-garde feature f...

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 birth mother....

Aldana and Adrián met six months ago. Tonight is their last night together before she moves abroad. Between jokes, reflections, and memories, they share a dinner that turns into a battlefield of confessions and unanswered questions. The love between ...

A young woman revisits memories of her fiancé while silently coping with the distance that separates them. Amid routines that now feel different, she confronts the emptiness left behind and tries to understand what remains when everything around her ...

A feature-length road trip drama, set on the iconic London canals. We are narrated an unlikely story mixing reality with hints of British folklore. Vincent (Alex Scrivens) is a lone mechanic boater on the canals who’s grieving from the death of his ...

In the wake of a traumatic incident at a funeral, an aging widow is faced with a bizarre, impossible choice....

A cargo plane pilot is trapped alone with his ship in Earth's orbit due to a nuclear war. Until one day he finds a connection with someone else in space....

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 goes nowhere, they meet for the first time. Neither one knows that the other loves them....

A psycho-geographic journey through London and its history, as undertaken by an unseen narrator and his companion, Robinson, at the time of the 1992 general election....

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 observing her fellow guests....

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, meditative short film about letting go of the past and embracing the unknown future....