Melancholy Movies

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

Four inversions of an increasingly melancholic relationship

A comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.

A few minutes in the life of two people: a young woman who has her whole life in front of her and an old man ill with asthma who has only one more...

Two siblings who are completely different from each other are cleaning dishes as they argue about their differences only to realize that one of them...

A poetic story about the first love of the village girl Natasha, loyal to the memory of the deceased fiancé. In peacetime, the heroine's...

We are on our way to Prijedor in Bosnia, the director’s hometown, and the place of his perpetual departures. But before arriving, we must learn...

Aurora and Bernardo are experiencing moments of happiness, but their joy is interrupted by the onset of war.

Something Like Summer traces the tumultuous relationship of Ben and Tim, secret high school sweethearts who grow over the years into both adulthood...

A young man moves to a new town after experiencing a tragedy and becomes involved with a gang of Satan-worshipping teens who believe they have...

Simbiso, a determined 17-year-old girl from a rural village, carries the weight of raising her younger siblings after losing their parents. When she...

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...

During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North...

Sam and Callum get lost on their way to film a wedding and end up having an existential crisis as they try and get back on track. Will they make it...

A man projects images onto a female silhouette

A brief, but dramatic and dark period in the life of a young man.

Two lonely people notice each other on the train. One desires the other. A yearning so big it might destroy me. Walk up that hill. Desperation.

A mysterious, troubled boy meets an impressionable girl in their small town. Together they embark on a romance where his love turns into obsession as...

For 17 years, from the age of about six or seven, Kathy Chu keeps a diary. It's a complete fiction, denying disappointments (when her older sister...

Sent spiraling after the unexpected discovery of his girlfriend's suicide, Liam sifts through the memories of their relationship that he now must...