Melancholy Filmes

mens·beeld (het; o; meervoud: mensbeelden) A "Mensbeeld" is a well-thought-out and coherent representation of what it means to be human....

An orphaned teenager is visiting his parents’ grave - once a place of solace, now a reminder of his growing emptiness.

A César nominated short animation about the impact on a small-town clerk by the arrival of a female hitch-hiker.

A camera test that gains a new meaning with context.

First short film from Queens-based Filmmaker Shawn Solomon that captures various memories and moments across 2023.

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

L'amour (love). La mort (death). Two French words that could confuse a foreigner, but never a native. Messenger V writes for a company that sends...

When my friend Whitney added me to her ABC’s of Quarantine Film Festival lineup in March, I was excited and then immediately thought about the...

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...

A female poop emoji deals with the heartbreak of her dull life and is stuck fantasizing about what life could've been like with another partner.

After a midnight car crash, two strangers find themselves waiting for an answer inside a hospital. They end up bonding over their mutual dreadful...

A Documentary about bird carving in the islands of Virginia.

Some words were left unspoken by two lovers before one of them departed. In desperation, one decided to go back in time to a specific moment in the...

Alone on a desolate planet, a crash-landed astronaut wanders the wasteland, searching for hope as his oxygen depletes.

miscommunication

A portrait of a beach town at night

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...

A young mime struggles with financial hardships and attempts to find hope in their solitary life.