Mourning Movies

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

Shell-shocked Barbara must face up to the loss of a dear companion after a tragic accident. Her best friend Klara and husband Torsten devise a plan to...

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

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

Fleeing from the image of his boyfriend who recently committed suicide, Leo arrives in England in order to descend into anonymity. Yet even here his m...

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

In this thought-provoking film, director Paul Perry uses recent research into near-death experiences to answer the question that's plagued humans sinc...

Two sisters fall in love with the same man. After the wedding, the new husband realizes he may have married the wrong sister.

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln's youngest son is laid to rest. That night, Lincoln visits his son's crypt, a chorus of ghosts narrating their brief reunion....

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

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

Unable to accept the death of her husband, a woman keeps him secretly in their apartment. Helped by the cold, she tries to keep the corpse preserved f...

A dystopian, post-modern retelling of the Easter story.

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 entire...

A young woman mourning the loss of a loved one battles to escape her existential nightmare.

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

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...

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 th...

A memorial mourns as time passes