Melancholy Movies

In 1974, 24 year-old Francis Wetherbee, a bank teller who is the subject of small-town envy and gossip, disappears from her hometown of Smithville,...

With the local refinery closing, the town of Grangemouth is thrown into limbo.

Four inversions of an increasingly melancholic relationship

When a young woman discovers that the soup she cooks can temporarily restore her father’s fading memories, she must decide whether to sacrifice...

Two bored teenage girls start killing time with a strange older guy.

An inside glimpse of how it feels to be a teen in today's disconnected world. PURGATORY HOUSE chronicles the after-life journey of Silver Strand: a...

Two estranged childhood friends, Henry and Carter, reconnect in their early twenties for a final, turbulent canoe trip.

No-nonsense workaholic Marco runs the family business along with his older brother. When the latter suddenly disappears, Marco has to put aside his...

The elderly first-class prosecutor Khalid Aliyarov loses his wife before retirement. For a 65-year-old man, this event becomes a serious life crisis....

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

mens·beeld (het; o; meervoud: mensbeelden) A "Mensbeeld" is a well-thought-out and coherent representation of what it means to be human....

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...

Phil, once a terrifying villain of the silver-screen, struggles to find work in modern Hollywood due to being an out-of-date special effect. Refusing...

A year in the life of a dying shopping mall.

It’s a central premise of the American dream: If you’re willing to work hard, you’ll be able to make a living and build a better...

Over the course of one stagnant day in a small town, two directionless, codependent dorks stumble through friendship, insecurity, and love while...

Dramatizes the kidnapping of a young white boy by a black teenager after an attempted robbery in a Florida supermarket. Filmed from the perspective...