Longing Movies

Forced to leave her baby daughter with the child’s father, young mother Esther is caught in desperation and longing. Through the night she...

This film contrasts the solitude of a man trapped in a dark routine with his radiant quest to reunite with someone dear to him.

An isolated young black man leaves reality behind to become a giant Octopus.

Getting ready to go their own ways in life, an uncertain boy and his anxious girlfriend have to decide how to navigate their next steps.

237 years after mankind's extinction, an android longs for a past it can never experience.

An intimate portrait of the lives of Delvys and Carlos, siblings who live alone with their elderly mother in a rural part of a small Cuban town. The...

A young inexperienced man rekindles his emotional and intimate relationship with his only love–his charming, and talking, childhood teddy bear.

After a shift at a refinery, four coworkers decide to go out and get drinks. After stopping at a gas station for supplies, they head to the...

A young man and woman say goodbye to one another in an abstract representation of an apartment entrance. He is leaving. They struggle to separate....

Harkening back to the apartment movies of the 1970s, "Footnotes" is the story of neighbors and near total strangers, Will and Apurna. When they begin...

After being introduced by a mutual college friend, two unnamed characters form an immediate connection. As their romantic relationship progresses,...

A young woman revisits memories of her fiancé while silently coping with the distance that separates them. Amid routines that now feel...

A young Frenchman arrives in Northern California looking to forget a lost love and ends up encountering various forms of feminine power.

Trapped in his nostalgia and haunted by the impermanence of things, a sad little ghost is unable to pass through the liminal space he occupies.

It’s Karla’s first birthday away from home. And music will be her way back.

Ukrainian sculptor who is taking wife's death hard acquires the hope to begin a new life after appearance of Iraqi refugee. He desires to fall in...

In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict...

In a quiet Himalayan village, sixteen-year-old Uma looks forward to the annual fair, the one place that once brought her comfort after her...