Melancholy Movies

A young man struggles with contemplating mortality a year after the passing of a loved one.

A young woman revisits memories of her fiancé while silently coping with the distance that separates them. Amid routines that now feel...

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

A bolstering eruption of chaos and boyhood; an exploration of the human body and how it interacts with the soul.

Burden of Existence is a meditative short film about loneliness, debt, poverty, gratitude, addiction, and the fragile ways what we reap sows back to...

A portrait of a beach town at night

Originally presented as an installation, this raw, haunting short by Basma al-Sharif depicts a horse ride at dusk on a farm in Gaza through...

The City That God Forgot is a full feature length documentary film about the city of Utica, NY, and its strong willed community and extensive history...

Five short documental scenes by different directors, each showing their different interpretations of "silence."

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

Set in 1948, a year after independence, Gajar Ka Halwa is a deeply personal tale of love, loss, and the invisible scars of Partition. In the...

A short film that captures a relationship on the verge of collapse - between two people who couldn’t be more different. It explores...

COVID-19 made the world go into severe lockdowns. No one could see each other for months on end, but then in 2021, the lockdowns were removed and...

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

Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman who wakes up one morning to find himself turned into a giant insect. As he struggles to adapt to his new body, his...