Mourning Movies

A documentary that explores how seven remarkable people embrace their pain, learn to live with their loss, and now engage in life with more compassion...

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

I Can’t Get Away is a three-channel black-and-white silent video. The video depicts 4 sequences: a figure perpetuating walking away; a figure bounded...

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

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

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

A boy kills his friend and is haunted by the memory of him, until one day...

A genderqueer widow carries a child using their late wife's embryo, creating a family that will forever link them to the love of their life.

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

A boy is tragically killed in a car accident. Will his father transform into a vengeful monster, or a forgiving wise man?

Families from across the U.S. discuss how they cope with loss and address common misconceptions about grief. Through candid personal stories and conve...

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

After her suicide, Rona's friends have one last night out with her in order to mourn. They play games and drink to her memory. Soon enough, the truth...

Suffering the loss of someone we love can be the most difficult thing in life to deal with. One moment we have them and the next they're gone. What ar...

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. Du...

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