Melancholy Movies

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

In the mid-20th century, in a forested valley between Italy and Yugoslavia, a stingy widower befriends a young woman and helps her depart across the...

A few minutes in the life of two people: a young woman who has her whole life in front of her and an old man ill with asthma who has only one more...

A pleasant drive through a countryside is filled by melancholy as unpleasant memories surface.

In this deeply moving VRChat short film, an entity from the 'in-between' observes the human experience from the periphery. As it watches individuals...

When an 80 year old intellectual is confronted with issues of old age and death, she reminisces the death of her mother that happened 30 years...

Angus, a lonely grocery store worker, finds an unlikely friend in a lobster after working a long night shift.

Procedurally-generated frames slowly expand in density to visually explore the mind of a psychopathic, narcissistic teenager, up until the demise of...

A young woman revisits memories of her fiancé while silently coping with the distance that separates them. Amid routines that now feel...

A young man has a conversation with his inner self

In his motor home, while drinking too much wine, an old “Shlappsteur” (a luxury event waiter) shares anecdotes about the job that ate up...

A young couple in their twenties is confronted with the fear of monotony in their daily lives.

After a chance encounter with someone from his past, a solitary man in New York reflects on lost connections, memory, and the quiet ache of growing...

Over the course of one stagnant day in a small town, two directionless, codependent dorks stumble through friendship, insecurity, and love while...

After the end of a relationship, a young Belgian woman remains alone in an isolated house and turns silence, repetition, and solitude into forms of...

A young doctor has a promising career in São Paulo, but the diagnosis of a serious illness profoundly changes her relationship with the world...

Peach Plum Pear is the story of Jesse, a troubled young man from Los Angeles, and his friend Will, who find themselves stranded in small- town...

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

Halil the greengrocer goes to a nightclub with his friends one day to break the monotony of his life. There he meets Sabiha, one of the women working...

A boy looks for money to replace a watch that his father lost on a work trip. Searching the corners of the house, the truths of his parents will be...