Mourning Movies

Ellie, a recovering drug addict, has just moved to a new city with her two teenage children. She has struggled to stay sober in the past and is...

A woman and her two young children struggle for answers and shared closure after their husband and father, a professional cave diver, doesn't return...

Five family depictions, five disrupted balances. An anthology which broach subjects such as mourning, family toxicity, the lack of parents/children...

A teenage girl, Jessica, looks back on the stories her mother told through her movies and her own memories of her mother. This film is animated...

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of...

A son loves his mother, because her hands were the first to welcome him. At her funeral, he steals the hearse and drives away. During the journey,...

A man struggling with grief sets off across California on a solo motorcycle trip.

The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the...

The story follows Maria – a teenager whose mother used to be a hoarder. Now (set in the 90s) she lives in a foster home where a previous...

After the death of his daughter, A guy gets depressed and burned out. But things get out of hand when his boyfriend tries to fix him.

Laurel, a Chicago-based business executive, travels to Memphis to secure one of the city's oldest family-owned banks. While in Memphis, Laurel...

A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate...

Having just lost her mother, Anna finds herself facing a nightmarish situation...a fur monster appears in her home. She will have to live with this...

Unable to accept the death of her husband, a woman keeps him secretly in their apartment. Helped by the cold, she tries to keep the corpse preserved...

The 43rd edition screens Neighbors, with five segments about the theme “neighbors”: not only about physical proximity, but also about...

In this thought-provoking film, director Paul Perry uses recent research into near-death experiences to answer the question that's plagued humans...

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln's youngest son is laid to rest. That night, Lincoln visits his son's crypt, a chorus of ghosts narrating their brief...

A widow keeps her husband's memory alive through daily, silent gestures, until longing and love lead her to meet him again, in an ending where...