Melancholy Movies

Comfortable in the routine of his 9-5 job, a postcard triggers office worker Ben to confront a memory from his youth. This leads him on a path of...

A man wanders a city reminiscing of a lost love.

A Presence is.

Strangers revolve around a solitary photographer who captures portraits of unknown individuals by confining himself inside a photo booth. However,...

A kaleidoscopic exploration of found objects that express deeper human emotion.

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....

A young man enters an empty chapel, holding onto a memory he cannot let go of. Alone with his thoughts, he speaks to the absence of someone he loved...

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...

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

An introspective narrative that follows the daily lives of characters immersed in existential and identity crises within urban environments. Trapped...

A girl is transformed into space dust by a cosmic entity.

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

Does a child really think about so much? Childhood curiosity is an emotion like no other.

By letting go of the urge to control and embracing the unexpected, the creative process finds a new pulse. Thus, Gut Knows What Mind Does Not...

After discovering a mysterious camera that transports him into fleeting moments of the past, a grieving photography student attempts to rewrite a...

"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...

Hiatos is a performance art video that treats melancholy as a colonial wound. Through performance and dance, it reveals perspectives of time,...

Struggling with writer's block, Sam, a young filmmaker writing their next screenplay experiences a nightmare showing them the sacrifices made in the...

A short animated film about a little boy named Less and his trip through the forest.