Movies: Grief

The humorous misadventures of a gas station attendant attempting to paint a mural to memorialize his friend....

Lily, a high school senior, with a camcorder, discovers a way to see her deceased brother again....

Pirjo, still stuck in her past, gets kidnapped by her pet crab Sebastian who turns out to be an alien. Sebastian wants to save her since the world is about to end at 10 p.m. today. However, Pirjo refuses to leave the planet without a memento of her b...

The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945–2003) and the audiovisual dialogue b...

A woman grieves for her missing son. A deceased young man wants to be found. These lives converge in The Dead Speak Back as we are taken on a surreal and mysterious journey following in the footsteps of the nearly departed. But at what point do we fa...

In this silent short film, we follow three stories grappling with grief. As the characters within these stories take action and process their feelings, we see the intertwining nature of these peoples lives....

Sofia grew up taking refuge in the river of the village where her grandmother, Salomé, lives. The lightness of summers spent swimming comes to an abrupt end with Salomé's death. Sofia returns to an empty home that is nothing more than a reminder of o...

mateus strives to feel closer to his mother and sister, whilst struggling to make sense of his eerie surroundings. he spends his day chasing after memories he keeps of them when they were happier, as he reminisces a time that they felt less distant. ...

One night, nine children from the same Tunisian village attempt the deadly crossing. Like a poem or a prayer, this film welcomes the words of bereaved mothers and gives dignity to their grief....

“TWO” aims to illustrate the handling of grief when three becomes two. Turning to writing an alternative sequence of events, however reality seeps through with a hyper realistic remembering of events. A proof of concept....

A father deals with the recent loss of his own dad, while trying to figure out how to be a good father himself. At the same time, his son attempts to help his father feel better with his grief....

Having recently split up, Ezra and Frankie reckon with love, loss and life....

As a young man struggles through moments of uncertainty, grief, mortality and being unable to cope with the influx of emotion, he is brought along on a mental journey of self-discovery and self-worth through a language that speaks when words no longe...

After the loss of his mother, a boy uses his imagination to escape reality, creating and playing characters. As a result, despite their grief, his family needs to do everything they can to deal with the boy's fantasies....

As Mio goes on a journey to Loveland to find closure, an incident occurs, giving him new hope for his heart to shine again. A story about the importance of loving and coping, of hearts connecting and separating....

In a world where flowers represent emotions, Gloria, an Italian Mother, faces devastating loss and loses her way. She must battle her own sadness to find peace....

A teenage girl has lost her mother and has distances herself from everyone due to the grief she is feeling, till one day an old primary school friend of hers walks back into her life......

The story of a man who edits with his memories a last conversation to say goodbye to the woman he loved....

Fleeting moments is a 3 minute short film made by the solely by the director to show the effect of grief and depression on a person's perception of time. As the viewer we are experiencing time in Stella's time isolated to herself and her room, while ...

A filmic letter to New York City, the subway, and self....