Movies: Melancholy

This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down the Amazon rainforest to create charcoal for pig iron production used primarily in the automobile ind...

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Two former college friends randomly reconnect at a coffee shop during a long winter night. As the night progresses, past events and emotions slowly begin to surface....

On the eve of a major life change, Abby sorts through memories, unfinished conversations, and the pieces of a friendship strained by ambition. As departure day looms, the past and present collide, forcing her to confront what moving forward really me...

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

A girl, a ghoul, a vampire, a bloodstain... who is it?, what happened? We found it on the floor...

Improvised over the course of a single night in Paris, this short film follows Fanny and Alexis, who meet by chance on a warm August evening. Fanny doesn’t believe in second dates, always less magical than the first spark. To prove her wrong, Alexis ...

Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests....

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 their futures....

A piece of visual poetry that shows the world seen through the eyes of a person in a constant state of anhedonia...

When my friend Whitney added me to her ABC’s of Quarantine Film Festival lineup in March, I was excited and then immediately thought about the things I didn’t have: a camera, sound equipment, access to other people, fancy skills or experience “like e...

Based on actual events about the harsh realities of teenagers living life in a group home (where over 100,000 American juveniles live each year). The story: Roy, a new kid and artist from the suburbs is tested by Daryl, the group home leader and his ...

A new-to-town carer forms an unlikely bond with her first patient, an elderly man with onset dementia, and together they find ways to reconcile with their pasts and help each other overcome their sense of loneliness....

A frustrated young man, who suffers from alcohol addiction finds an abandoned plant on a sidewalk. He starts to take care after the plant and without realising, after himself too....

A documentary on three families struggling to survive in Brazil....

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 who's been bullied his whole life at school. This accurate & controversial portrayal of life for...

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On New Year's night, Sandro suffers a heart attack and needs to have an emergency transplant. He ends up receiving the heart of Isadora, a transvestite owner of a beauty salon who had died a few moments before, victim of a runover. After the transpla...

After receiving a phone call, a man feels his inner world come to a standstill. Recalling the event decades later, he relives how everything changed in that moment and reflects on how quickly his life has passed and how his reality was constructed by...

A teenage girl dealing with the loss of her mother, navigating the five stages of grief, when suddenly her doppelganger appears. Throughout her journey of discovery, she not only confronts her own unresolved feelings but begins to understand the frag...