Movies: Mourning

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 of his recent loss. Meanwhile, he's drawn to a flirtation with an anonymous stranger by a message left...

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After the death of her husband, an elderly woman attempts to reconnect to her late love through the piano....

A story about the special relationship between Jaana and her daughter Liisa who died in a traffic accident at the age of 16....

Two strangers visit the penthouse of a recently deceased lover, only to find themselves learning more about each other....

A young woman attempts to extract meaning from an intense loss as she encounters signs in her daily life and through the art of Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky. Point and Line to Plane portrays the phenomenon of magical thinking endured during a...

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When the grieving student Patricia finally wanted to contact her deceased grandmother via the Ouija board at the scene of the accident, an uninvited guest asked to enter....

Enrique is a 30-year-old man who travels next to Marcos, his younger brother to a key lake of his childhood to throw away the ashes of his father. During the road they will have fights due to their differences that will detonate completely when the...

Goldie, an artist grieving over the loss of her partner, creates space for new love to enter her life....

Ariane's grandmother often visits her in her dreams. Together, they wander through unknown nocturnal landscapes. In this dreamlike short film, where the border between memories and imagination is blurry, Ariane raises the possibility that the seal be...

A meet between two strangers that become a trip to the sea, where their deep solitudes will be complicit in the cycles that both are about to close....

It is the end of a meal. Eight people are gathered around a big table. They evoke the memory of a lost friend. Through the stories of each about the absentee, the character traits, the haabits or the expressions, a portrait in hollow is outlined....

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Teo’s dream of dancing with Mia in the school competition seems hopeless…until he meets Ro, a funny bird-like creature with wondrous abilities, lost in the city. Ro’s friendship will help the wayward boy find his feet, but it will take more than danc...

Families from across the U.S. discuss how they cope with loss and address common misconceptions about grief. Through candid personal stories and conversations with experts in the grief field, the film also presents ideas for how family and friends ca...

A young woman crosses a confined provincial town and its outskirts. Once at her destination, a strange mourning protocol awaits her....

At Archer’s Aunty Gladys’ funeral, he hears a tap on the window — it’s a bear named Jesus, who has come for Archer’s mom. “A Bear Named Jesus” is an allegory for religious interference, with an aching yet humorous look at estrangement and mourning fo...

Due to the sudden death of his grandfather, Nejat (8) arrives at a funeral home for the first time in his life. As soon as they arrive, he is left all alone by his devastated mourning parents. Nejat gets so confused in this chaotic environment, espec...

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