Melancholy Movies

Jonah, a grieving saxophonist, is haunted by loss, unable to play the music that once gave him life. As he struggles to move on, Lydia—an...

Anna is thinking of quitting sex work. She hears screaming from out the window.

Saudade. (n.) an intense longing for someone or something that is absent. it's the mixture of feelings of loss, distance, and love. it's a deep...

After the end of a relationship, a young Belgian woman remains alone in an isolated house and turns silence, repetition, and solitude into forms of...

A documentary that focuses on the effects that alcohol has on someone's honesty, performativity and behaviour; Anyone's candid and composed exterior...

On a lonely night, revolting for sleep, Hari opened his old notes of melancholy. While writing the diary, he delves into his past and reopens all his...

Robert's entire life revolves around his passion: his job as a burglar. When a film crew wants to make a documentary about his daily life, he accepts...

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

When viewed from far away, life on Earth can seem meaningless. But when a star inhabits a dying girl, they experience the tragic beauty found at the...

A wandering girl, immersed in nostalgia, seeks explanations for the ephemeral through an introspective conversation within a scandalous city.

An experimental short film created for Year 12 VCE Media, exploring how different editing styles can accentuate vastly different atmospheres, even...

Majid used to study philosophy when he lived in the Turkmen-speaking part of Afghanistan. Now he works on a construction site in northeastern Iran,...

A young man returns to a place that no longer feels like home. Along the way, old melodies echo through memories he can’t outrun.

A short film that answers the question asked in the title. A brief introspection.

This story follows Mauricio in his dilema between following his dream, the complicated relationship whit his family and the fight with his worst...