Genre

Drama

61–80 of 1,186 films

  • What Resonates in Silence

    2020 16+ 8 min

    by Maëva Blin

    Hiding death does not make it disappear. A little girl who suffered from the silence of adults felt dispossessed of her right to mourn. As an adult, she recounts the tender gestures that bind her to the dead.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • What They Believe

    2015 16+ 10 min

    by Shoko Hara

    Glad tidings about a device that will turn life around for good – Three treasure hunters follow the cross – A father and a son share the secrets of everlasting joy – On the other hand, a crippled child can only find serenity inside his model railway. A miracle healer shall finally bring him salvation… Little by little, odd human beings and an odd world will manifest.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
    • Non-narrative
  • What If

    2022 16+ 4 min

    by Leonid Shmelkov

    The last president Putin’s speech. No hope that this is possible. But I just want to remember how it should have been in the World of Right things.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • by Vinnie Ann Bose

    The film is a humorous depiction of the Indian obsession with fair skin and their prejudices regarding skin colour.

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Tragicomedy
  • Wereawolf

    2023 16+ 7 min

    by Niko Mlynarčík

    Film about sparkledogs, werewolverines and other things that are JUST drawings. The texting parts are based on real conversations I’ve had age 12-16 with a deviantart “friend”.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • by Gabriel Gabriel Garble

    A gentle animation that played Sundance and Ann Arbor. Newly orphaned and freshly wounded from a loss, a boy lends his companion a prosthetic arm for the day. The companion records the arm being exposed to different textures and materials. What will become of the limb and the video recordings?

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Wet

    2021 16+ 6 min

    by Marianne Bergeonneau, Lauriane Montpert, Mélina Mandon & others

    During a thrilling massage, a lady is going to seduce her masseur. Through different rooms of a thermal cure, a seduction game would take place. A maze of sensation, flesh and steam which lead them to meet again.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • Weeds

    2020 16+ 4 min

    by Élodie Ferrer

    A hand, a bamboo. Humanity and nature. They are meeting during a dreamlike journey, from the emergence of life till our own civilization.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Weekends

    2017 Adults 16 min

    by Trevor Jimenez

    “Weekends” is an Academy Award nominated animated short about a young boy shuffling between the homes of his recently divorced parents. Surreal, dream-like moments mix with the domestic realities of a broken up family in this hand-animated film set in 1980’s Toronto.

    • Drama
  • Wednesday with Goddard

    2016 16+ 4 min

    by Nicolas Ménard, Nicolas Menard

    A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Fantasy
    • Romance
  • We Were a Sterile Bomb

    2020 16+ 15 min

    by Dotan Moreno

    We Were a Sterile Bomb is a coming-of-age story of 21-year-old Avi, living in a small southern town in 1997’s Israel. Avi, a lonely introvert, wanders in and out of the city. An encounter with a young man his age shakes his numb world.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Coming-of-Age
  • Way of Giants

    2016 7+ 12 min

    by Alois Di Leo

    For an indigenous Amazonian tribe, the forest is a place of life, death and rebirth, as a wilful young girl discovers. A lush and poetic fable, accompanied by haunting strains of Andean woodwinds.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Adventure
  • Waves 98

    2015 Adults 15 min

    by Ely Dagher

    Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs of segregated Beirut, Omar’s discovery lures him into the depths of the city. Immersed into a world that is so close yet so isolated from his reality that he eventually finds himself struggling to keep his attachments, his sense of home.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Water Path for a Fish

    2016 4+ 8 min

    by Mercedes Marro

    It’s a starry night in a poor neighborhood in Latin America. Oscar is sleeping in his room when a sudden wind wakes him up. From his window, he sees a little goldfish in a dirty puddle gasping for air.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
  • Waste Away

    2020 16+ 5 min

    by Elly Stern

    Waste Away is a surreal stop motion short about a homeless woman who becomes pregnant with a fish. The responsibility of motherhood gives her the strength to fight for survival, while the forces of nature threaten to overtake her

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Wartime, Sometime

    2019 Adults 3 min

    by Dermot Lynskey

    Soldiers in a war wait for information via a fax machine.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • War Is Over!

    2023 Adults 12 min

    by Dave Mullins

    At a World War I front, a carrier pigeon delivers moves messages between two soldiers playing a chess game, unaware they are on opposite sides.

    • Drama
  • Wanda

    2018 13+ 13 min

    by Denise Hauser

    Bored in school and tired of her arguing parents, Wanda escapes running into the woods. Luckily she has good company.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
  • Wallflower Tango

    2011 13+ 7 min

    by Wolfram Kampffmeyer

    Charlotte, a lonely woman, finds in her flat the burglar Kalle who is about to still her valuable diamond. They start to fight about the gem but soon the aggressive fight becomes a passionate tango dance and opponents become lovers. Till the police interrupts this affair…

    • Drama
    • Comedy
    • Romance
    • Dance