Movies: Mourning

A documentary that explores how seven remarkable people embrace their pain, learn to live with their loss, and now engage in life with more compassion, courage, and awareness. The personal and moving stories include those of author Isabel Allende, Re...

Rosa spends her days between working at the dry cleaning shop and reminiscing about her childhood with her mother. One day, she sees on television that a woman from her neighborhood claims to have seen the Virgin Mary. From that moment, Rosa’s daily ...

A boy kills his friend and is haunted by the memory of him, until one day......

An ode to the moments suspended in the tiny hours before sunrise....

Desperate to help her father get over the death of his wife, a girl turns to an AI that mimics her, unaware of the disturbing attachment he will develop toward her...

After dying suddenly, Ernesto appears in the office of death itself, to whom he must prove that he has fulfilled his purpose in life in order to rest in peace. But Ernesto refuses to die yet, since he still has many things to do in life....

Barbara is a professional clown, as is her partner Heli. The two children call them a "clown family". Barbara believes in failure and in making fun of what doesn't work. In the ability to turn things around and see the positive in the negative. But B...

A young woman mourning the loss of a loved one battles to escape her existential nightmare....

At Archer’s Aunty Gladys’ funeral, he hears a tap on the window — it’s a bear named Jesus, who has come for Archer’s mom. “A Bear Named Jesus” is an allegory for religious interference, with an aching yet humorous look at estrangement and mourning fo...

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Ana, a 7 year old girl, tries to understand and be a part her grandfathers funeral despite her mothers efforts to keep her away....

A boy is tragically killed in a car accident. Will his father transform into a vengeful monster, or a forgiving wise man?...

After the death of his daughter, A guy gets depressed and burned out. But things get out of hand when his boyfriend tries to fix him....

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Families from across the U.S. discuss how they cope with loss and address common misconceptions about grief. Through candid personal stories and conversations with experts in the grief field, the film also presents ideas for how family and friends ca...

March 2020. Fabrizio, a photographer and filmmaker who lives in Luxembourg, returns to his family in central Italy after his father has suffered a heart attack. It’s the beginning of the pandemic, the country is in lockdown. An intimate diary and an ...

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A dystopian, post-modern retelling of the Easter story....

Rob Krikke (33) has Down’s syndrome and is an actor with a theatre company. Since his sister died in an accident, that event won’t let go of Rob anymore. A decision is taken to make a play about her death. Documentary maker Didderiëns follows this pr...

After the suicide of her best friend, Sybille develops a unique eating disorder: a passion for increasingly solid and less edible foods....