Grief or Madness

A lonely gay widower and his drug dealer's discontented wife debate the finer points of life, loss, Buck Rogers and horse tranquilizer.

Crack, Brutal Grief

Powerful and raw, ‘Crack, Brutal Grief’ is an impressive extension of R. Bruce Elder's obsessions with history, media culture, psychology, technology, and the cruelty found in nature. The film acts as a primal scream, li

Cantata of Grief

Doomsday mood in an institution for assisted suicide! Patients, nurses, and doctors voice their distress about everyday suffering and the hurts of life. In this pitch-black tragic comedy, the six actors address the audie

The Nature of Grief

A gentle, personal story about a filmmaker who has lost his older brother and decides to explore the culture of grief with a group of experts in psychology.

Short Films About Grief

A series of vignette style short films that cover grief in many different ways.

Mother's Grief

1954 / Tangisan Ibu / Mother’s Grief / L. Krishnan / Keris

The Banality of Grief

Since the 1970s, the travelling and extremely productive film poet Jon Bang Carlsen has created an extensive body of work with a creative and personal look at the world, with the staged documentary as his preferred form.

Grief in the Family

This 14-minute animated video looks at the ways children and young people respond to grief, and what the adults around them can do to help. It gives parents and carers an insight into the process of grieving, its physica

Portrait of Grief

A small excerpt from the scenes of a complicated relationship between a mother and her daughter.

Edge of Grief

Edge of Grief explores the emotions surrounding the grieving process, personified in a journey through a forest. The film uses stop motion, combining textile-based models with natural materials. The ever-changing yet rep

Echoes of Grief

Portraying the personal experience of a fatal loss, the film seeks to verbalise the unspeakable. A journey through phantasmagoric realms, oscillating between shadow and light, past and present, sorrow and solace.

The Grief of Geumgan

The film concerns the playboy son of a rich man. After he gets a village girl pregnant, she commits suicide. The playboy is later murdered by his ex-wife.

Feeding Grief To Animals

A grieving woman comes to terms with the loss of her baby by welcoming wild animals into her garden.

Roots of Grief

From a trip to reconnect a tradegy formed. Stella distanced herself from her childhood friends due to the loss of a family member. Wanting to get better she decides to reconnect with her old friends who have been worried

The Harmonica of Grief

Jewels of Grief

In Morocco, for years more and more women give birth outside of marriage, known as single mothers. In the predominantly Muslim country, this is still considered as a violation of law and religion but also of morals and t

The Eternity of Grief

A dog is thrust on a journey through all five stages of grief when his beloved mother leaves the house indefinitely.

The Truth of Grief

Chris Olson, a young father struggling with alcoholism, comes to terms with his father's passing in therapy, until new details come to light.

Grief in a Snuffbox

Based on the work of Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak “Woe to Fear - Happiness Cannot See.”

Grief – Those Who Remain

A descent into the world of mourning and loss through three homicide stories that shook Greek and European society: the cruel murders of Shahzad Luqman, Pavlos Fyssas, and Zak Kostopoulos. The grieving families of the vi