Tag

Sad

361–380 of 391 films

  • Au pair

    2017 Adults 13 min

    by Tatu Pohjavirta, Mark Ståhle

    Woman becomes an au pair for a single man’s cardboard family.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
  • by Lise Rémon

    He tries to talk to her again. As usual, she seems very distant. But how can that be? She’s only at the other end of the table.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Experimental
  • Ashen Sun

    2024 16+ 13 min

    by Camille Monnier

    Under a scorching sun, Charlie is bored out of her mind and dreams of going to the seaside. But she’s forced to guard a seedy motel with her cousin Jess, who’s slumped in her deckchair. The two teenagers don’t get along and bicker at every opportunity. On the radio, the monotone voice of a collapsology researcher predicts the imminent end of the world.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
    • Tragedy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Arachmaninoff

    2010 16+ 6 min

    by René Lange

    Itsy bitsy spider went down the sounding board. Down came the hammer and struck the spider’s chord.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • Apart

    2018 16+ 10 min

    by Diana Cam Van Nguyen

    This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death.

    • Drama
    • Documentary
    • Tragedy
  • Anywhere

    2021 16+ 7 min

    by Zsófia Osztós

    Two brothers run away from home, and this affects their relationship.

    • Drama
    • Coming-of-Age
    • Experimental
  • Among The Black Waves

    2016 Adults 11 min

    by Anna Budanova

    This story is based on an ancient northern legend according to which the souls of the drowned people turn into sea animals. The Hunter steals a seal-girl’s skin, so she can’t turn back into an animal. She becomes his wife, but often she glances at the sea.

    • Drama
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Amélia & Duarte

    2015 16+ 8 min

    by Alice Guimarães, Mónica Santos

    What if it there was a place where we could revisit the memories of a relationship? In this archive of remembrances we are guided through the story of Amélia and Duarte, two people that felt out of love and are trying to cope with the feelings that come after a relationship has ended.

    • Drama
    • Romance
    • Experimental
  • Altötting

    2020 Adults 11 min

    by Andreas Hykade

    As a young boy I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. We spent many decades together. First, she offered me protection from the cold. As a teenager, she introduced me to the secrets of love. But as an adult, this love became flawed. I began to see behind my beloved’s facade. And I discovered her horrifying side.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Abstract
  • Amalimbo

    2016 16+ 15 min

    by Juan Pablo Libossart

    Amalimbo is the story of Tipuana, a five-year-old girl who experiences the limbo when she tries to pass to “the other side” in her desperate urge to meet again with her recently deceased father. It is a short story that happens in an undefined place in an also undefined future.

    • Drama
    • Fantasy
    • Abstract
    • Experimental
  • Alleswasichberühre

    2020 16+ 5 min

    by Marion Täschler

    In a constant search for closeness, C experiences emotions in all their highs and lows. Even if a familiar phase of togetherness is followed by a rejection of the other person and, accordingly, a sad loneliness, C does not give up. Again and again, new ways are found to find the longed-for closeness and tenderness. And to lose.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • After

    2018 Adults 5 min

    by Matouš Valchář

    What will be after death? A lot of people thinking about this question. A lot of groups have very different opinion but majority of tham have one thing similar. Almost all religions are convinced that they are right. I wrote this movie, with my friend Karel Vžtrovsků, in time when we were slowly breaking out of the Christian prison in our minds, where we grew up and where we were imprisoned for a long time.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Experimental
    • Non-narrative
  • After

    2005 16+ 6 min

    by T. Kim Noco, Kim Noce

    After is a documentary animation that traces the emotional journey of three people as they journey from isolation and despair to discover a newfound hope in their lives.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • A Whisper’s Sound

    2017 16+ 5 min

    by Cheyenne Carand-Wallays, Cheyenne Canaud-Wallays

    A story between two sick grandmas in a hospital.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • A Visit

    2018 16+ 12 min

    by Parissa Mohit

    Amidst a bustling cityscape, a child pays a visit to a woman in a high-rise apartment. Inside, their interactions with each other, and with the outside world, become increasingly phantasmagorical.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
  • a photo of me

    2017 16+ 11 min

    by Dennis Tupicoff

    I’m a baby in a 1950s backyard with my toys and my family. My dad has a Kodak box camera. I’m a sleepy child at the Darra picture theatre, waking up to a film noir.

    • Drama
    • Experimental
    • Tragicomedy
  • A Single Life

    2014 16+ 2 min

    by Job Marieke, Joris Marieke

    When playing a mysterious vinyl single, Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life.

    • Tragicomedy
    • Drama
    • Non-narrative
  • A long holiday

    2015 16+ 16 min

    by Caroline Nugues-Bourchat

    This summer, Louise discovers for the first time the joys of camping by the sea with her parents. With her father, she collects precious treasures having belonged, according to her father, to a siren. He tells her the story of a siren who cannot sing and does not find her place in the society. The holidays last more than usual and Louise discovers the history of the siren might be the one of her father.

    • Drama
    • Tragicomedy
    • Fantasy
  • A Gong

    2018 10+ 6 min

    by Zozo Jhen, Marine Varguy, Yen-Chen Liu & others

    A journey of a 7 year-old boy’s acceptance of his grandpa’s death in a traditional Taiwanese funeral.

    • Drama
    • Family