Melancholy Movies

Five short documental scenes by different directors, each showing their different interpretations of "silence."

Soon after learning of the death of his mother Pérola, Mauro returns to his old family home in Bauru (São Paulo, Brazil). A look back...

My Dear Melancholy, a micro-short that explores a personified version of melancholy and his dilemma of holding on or letting go

Alex's obsession with their favorite anime character Angelic Kitty Miracle-chan offers them a chance to experiment with their sense of identity, but...

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...

A man wanders a city reminiscing of a lost love.

Three high school students deal with mental health struggles throughout the school day before Thanksgiving.

Oliver, an elderly gardener with Alzheimer's, discovers a Super 8 film reel he recorded decades ago, during the early days of his relationship with...

A record in 35mm film of the first drenching rain on Los Angeles after the devastation of the wildfires.

An experimental short film born out of long nights spent somewhere else.

An experimental coming-of-age odyssey through someone's troubled mind, going from country to country, landscape to landscape, growing up in the...

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

A man vents about his unraveling life to his best friend, unaware that the truth of their conversation extends far beyond his own perspective.

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

Phil, once a terrifying villain of the silver-screen, struggles to find work in modern Hollywood due to being an out-of-date special effect.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

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...

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...

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...

When a young woman discovers that the soup she cooks can temporarily restore her father’s fading memories, she must decide whether to sacrifice...