Melancholy Movies

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

Antoine is a 9-year-old autistic child. His perception of the world is both strange and wonderful. Her sister Emilie, in her teenage years, is...

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman attempts to reconnect to her late love through the piano.

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

A man steadily bashes through the snow. He disappears and the trees, covered in white, shift and show a beautiful array of hidden colors. A poetic,...

The man who isolates himself from the world to delve deeply into his thoughts. Searching less for answers and more for memories that can bring him...

A young girl named 'Clara' who suffers from social anxiety, depression, and having friends that left her behind meets 'Lucy', whose company is...

There are three friends in their fifties who, unable to have conventional relations with women, always call girls to call them to keep them company. ...

A young woman relives her last moments with her fiancé before having to say goodbye.

The film tells the tragic life story of an actor named Farhad, who remains faithful to national values and deeply feels the pain of their loss....

Set in early-1900s Ireland, A troubled and delusional young man dependent on the attention of his mother grows increasingly obsessed with the...

A software professional ditches a day at work to discover poetry and finds stories in strangers walking at Connaught Place

A hitman does one last job to get home before he deteriorates completely.

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

A boy is going on an exchange to Canada but doesn’t know why he’s decided to do so.

After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride...

Apocalypse now re-interpreted

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,...