January Hymn

A reflection on the intangible experience of grief, January Hymn sees Clara return home for the first anniversary of her father's death.

Napoleon's Nose

Sharp-tongued sixteen-year-old Jenny works as a home care assistant. She links arms with her friends as she stumbles tipsily towards maturity, navigating grief and attempting to balance the gravity of her job with the melodrama of her social life.

Stages

A reclusive widower faces reappearances of his late wife as he struggles to find his new purpose.

5 Stages of Grief

Adnan is a guy who feels lost after his brother—his only family, died. He feels like he has no one left, even though his girlfriend, Gisel, is by his side. He begins to blame himself for his brother's death. The universe gives him a second chance to relive the times he spent with his brother. However, not everything goes according to plan.

Coffee With Cinnamon

Five friends drink beer and chat at Violeta's house. Bit by bit, their stories of love, loss and suffering are told, revealing the acts of love and friendship that helped them through the hardest times of their lives.

Lost in Transmission

After the passing of one of their best friends, a group of twenty-something year olds must navigate their ways through the grief, but the differing emotions lead to the question of whether their bond will survive as well.

The Noise Around Her Black

Against the backdrop of Nigerian burial traditions, a widow and her three children struggle with the noise of public spectacle that isolates them in their private grief.

The Looming Cloud

Three siblings return home after their mother’s death and face their most daunting task: figuring out how to post about it on social media.

A Single Man

Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, is the story of a British college professor who dwells on the past and cannot see his future. We follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters ultimately lead him to decide if there is a meaning to life after the death of his long time partner, Jim.

Beast

A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.

Evil Angels

Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.

Strange now to think of you

A mans scheduled plans are set back by a delayed friend, causing an empty hour to be filled with memories relating to a recent loss.

Con amore, Ines

It's a Nice Night

Ollie’s best friend, Bunny, is moving away. As they spend what feels like their very last day together, reminiscing on the past and reliving their childhoods, they get caught in a cycle of arguments and prolonged silences. With Bunny’s help, Ollie slowly grasps what it means to move on.

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A Figment of Existence

University student Alex struggles with the sudden loss of his best friend, seeing visions of her everywhere around the house until he is finally forced to accept that she is now only a figment of his imagination.

Understand

A teenage boy's journey through coping with the loss of his best friend.

Birthday

Mercedes is an exhausted woman who faces the non-return of her only son, after the end of the Chaco War in 1935. A soldier returns to the same town looking for his girlfriend, and ends up accompanying this woman, discovering in turn the reason for her suffering.

Lifewasters

Short film regarding lolcows and parasocial relationships from indie animator Victoria Vincent

Suncoast

While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.

Wicked Little Letters

When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.

Beaches

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Versa

A young couple looking to start a family who experience emotions—from grief and loss to ultimate joy—as they embark on an ethereal, abstract, and imaginative cosmic dance of life.

Hereafter

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.

The Last Word

A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.

Remember

With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.

Rabbit Hole

Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.

Corner Office

In this office satire, Orson, a straight-laced employee, retreats to a blissfully empty corner office to get away from his lackluster colleagues. But why does this seem to upset them so much?

The Shack

A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

Another Year

During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.

Starving in Suburbia

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?

Killer's Kiss

Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.

Better Living Through Chemistry

A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.

The Meddler

With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori, a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful generosity to change the lives of others - as well as her own - and find a new purpose in life.

Mr. Church

A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.

Don't Think Twice

An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.

A Dog Year

Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined because of abuse. Despite a series of mishaps, Jon decides to keep trying with the dog, and he rents a dilapidated farm house to give the dog room to run. A local handyman refers Jon to a woman who might be able to help him train the dog. Reluctantly, Jon gives her a try. Is the dog the problem, or the owner?

Benny & Joon

A mentally ill young woman finds love with an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

Birth

It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.

Things We Lost in the Fire

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.