Mourning Movies

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

In present-day Queens, a Turkish gravedigger is unable to face a shattering truth and risks losing the dearest connection left in his life.

The Karate Man honors his recently deceased Sensei through a tribute video he created dedicated to his Sensei's legacy.

Two bohemian siblings come to terms with their father's death

A gay man returns home to mourn the death of his lover. However, since he's never come out to his family, they're unable to help as they're unaware...

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...

In this animated short, a terrible curse deprives Balthasar's kingdom of its stories. Taking the unicorn's horn back into The Belly of the Earth is...

Teo’s dream of dancing with Mia in the school competition seems hopeless…until he meets Ro, a funny bird-like creature with wondrous...

Just after Isidore moves to France to study filmmaking, his best friend dies back in the US. Through documentary, performance, and animation, a...

A young man likes spending time in the shower, too much according to his girlfriend. She thinks he is too slow and throws him out of her place. Armed...

A mentally-handicapped young man, a sex-obsessed tortured artist, and their responsible but somewhat prideful brother are all grief-stricken in the...

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

'star born brutal' is a diaristic exploration of liberation and trauma, in which recurrent memories oscillate between the Imaginary and the Real. The...

In the early 20th century, Lazar -a taciturn woodsman- asks the disenchanted portraitist Arkadi to immortalize his child. The execution of this...

Barbara is a professional clown, as is her partner Heli. The two children call them a "clown family". Barbara believes in failure and in making fun...

After dying suddenly, Ernesto appears in the office of death itself, to whom he must prove that he has fulfilled his purpose in life in order to rest...