Movies: Melancholy

A young boxer must pass an impossible test to join a boxing gym....

You are homehead. You live in a home that looks like your head. But you are not weird....

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....

An orphaned teenager is visiting his parents’ grave - once a place of solace, now a reminder of his growing emptiness....

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 doesn't want to spend time with her, Kathy invents and records a happy encounter) and rejections (she's...

A group of friends from a summer village. Over the past few years, they've been seeing each other less and less. Bruna invites them to lunch to celebrate her birthday, in the village, in the place where they have shared so many moments together, to r...

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

The camera gets lost in the deserted streets and lonely reflections of the city lights. Without words, it captures the loneliness of souls who, although surrounded by crowds and concrete, remain invisible and disconnected. Every corner, every abandon...

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The man who isolates himself from the world to delve deeply into his thoughts. Searching less for answers and more for memories that can bring him closer to those he loves and reflect on all his personal interactions that were sometimes not taken adv...

A woman returning home to her daily routine and solitary life starts getting lost in daydreams. Through flowing imagery and a home movie aesthetic, her inner fears play out on-screen....

A disillusioned Marine and an Afghan soldier escape the battlefield in a battered Volkswagen bus, journeying through a surreal, war-torn purgatory where the fight is no longer for survival but for their very souls....

Anna is thinking of quitting sex work. She hears screaming from out the window....

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In 'Quédate' we meet Ana, a young prostitute, who has a disturbing encounter with Manuel, a lonely man who seeks consolation for a painful breakup....

A short film about the dreams of the past and the realities of the future...

A camera test that gains a new meaning with context....

After feeling that he does not belong to the world around him, he withdraws into himself in an inner world in which he lives through books and movies, but ends up feeling like a spectator in his own life....

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

A César nominated short animation about the impact on a small-town clerk by the arrival of a female hitch-hiker....