Melancholy Movies

Dangling from a high window, a young non-binary person is on the cusp of life and death. Flashes of film, literature, art (paintings) and cultural...

Phil, once a terrifying villain of the silver-screen, struggles to find work in modern Hollywood due to being an out-of-date special effect. Refusing...

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...

When Isaac, a young teen struggling with his self-worth, finds a new identity as popular singer-songwriter Ace Duncan, in an unconscious attempt to...

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...

Paloma is a young adult who finds herself living in automatic mode, following every imposed social norm, already working in an office and living...

"While I'm Away" is a first-year student animated short. This short is about the sense of not fully belonging to one place, and missing the other...

A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she...

Some words were left unspoken by two lovers before one of them departed. In desperation, one decided to go back in time to a specific moment in the...

This story follows Mauricio in his dilema between following his dream, the complicated relationship whit his family and the fight with his worst...

Upon realizing there's not much time left, a teenager stuck in their bedroom, with only a window to the outside world, reflects on their life and...

Music as a counter-project to a bourgeois existence: Musicians, club and label operators, record store owners and other music lovers talk about how,...

This visually stunning short film set in the rural wheat belt of Western Australia, provides a candid insight into the life of Ronan, a 14 yr old boy...

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected,...

Two sisters and their male counterparts struggle with the negative influences of their youths over a 50-year period.

Martin Greenfield learned to sew while mending shirts for the Gestapo in Auschwitz and went on to make suits for U.S. presidents and stars. Now, at...

Imran Khalil made it: he finally got his big break as an actor. However, after an incident at a press event goes viral and gets him fired, he is...