Melancholy Movies

"Why Me?" is a short documentary film that boldly recounts the extraordinary story of Robert Diamubeni, the sole survivor of flight 9T-TCG in 1990...

A young woman, unable to move on from a failed relationship, spirals into depression, drugs, and alcohol. Haunted by memories of the man she once...

An introspective narrative that follows the daily lives of characters immersed in existential and identity crises within urban environments. Trapped...

Set in northern Kerala, the film narrates the journey of Alice in search of her missing husband, a college lecturer. During her quest, she slowly...

A record in 35mm film of the first drenching rain on Los Angeles after the devastation of the wildfires.

In this deeply moving VRChat short film, an entity from the 'in-between' observes the human experience from the periphery. As it watches individuals...

A young man enters an empty chapel, holding onto a memory he cannot let go of. Alone with his thoughts, he speaks to the absence of someone he loved...

Dangling from a high window, a young non-binary person is on the cusp of life and death. Flashes of film, literature, art (paintings) and cultural...

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

Phil, once a terrifying villain of the silver-screen, struggles to find work in modern Hollywood due to being an out-of-date special effect.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 depressed man finds himself in a silent nightmare of self-reflection.

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

A lonely and depressed young man decides to start beating up delinquents on the streets to cope with his sadness. People call him...

Struggling with writer's block, Sam, a young filmmaker writing their next screenplay experiences a nightmare showing them the sacrifices made in the...

A closed off young woman finds herself alone in her evacuated town, pondering the impending end of the world.

A short animated film about a little boy named Less and his trip through the forest.

"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 girl is transformed into space dust by a cosmic entity.