Melancholy Movies

The Fenestration of Suburbia is a melancholic social documentation of a cold Canadian suburb.

Set to "The Rock" by Harry Chapin, a puppet village ignores the warnings of a young boy who insists that a massive rock on the hill above their town...

At once surreal and poignant, this semi-autobiographical film by American director John Dilworth (Courage the Cowardly Dog) chronicles a turning...

"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...

A bolstering eruption of chaos and boyhood; an exploration of the human body and how it interacts with the soul.

A man who spends his nights offering emotional support struggles to confront his own inner life by day. Aspiring to be a writer, he drifts through...

Paloma is a young adult who finds herself living in automatic mode, following every imposed social norm, already working in an office and living...

A documentary that focuses on the effects that alcohol has on someone's honesty, performativity and behaviour; Anyone's candid and composed exterior...

A young woman's look at herself through a dream

An exploration of the human psyche, Blue takes the viewer on a journey alongside its main character, through the mundanity of life itself, while he...

A mentally unstable teen transforms himself into a clown to deal with and mask his own disturbing, nihilistic worldview and deteriorating mental...

A woman tries to stave off misgivings about her long-time boyfriend as she desperately attempts to recreate the best days of their relationship.

On his death bed, a dying old man succumbs to an unspecified terminal illness. His mind polluted, as the symptoms pivots his stability, a series of...

A boy who finished school and spends time at home, between routine and sleep, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

You are homehead. You live in a home that looks like your head. But you are not weird.

A teenage girl dealing with the loss of her mother, navigating the five stages of grief, when suddenly her doppelganger appears. Throughout her...

A camera test that gains a new meaning with context.

A lone figure drifts between reality and reflection, caught in stillness and searching for something just out of reach.