Loneliness Movies

In Tokyo, lonely patrons pay to sleep ("soine") with someone. Massage, cuddle, sleep… for comfort and nothing more than the warm embrace of...

Tião, 5 years old, seeks to understand the events involving his family at that time. Including his mother's illness that takes her away from...

In the post-apocalypse world, a boy and a robot walk toward the unknown, bound by the search for a missing father and the belief that light still...

Katja is a young retiree. At 24, she is living in a circle of solitude, spending her days walking her dog and looking out of the window.

Having grown up surrounded by my mother and her friends, I wonder about celibacy, loneliness, and the place of friendship among single women. Through...

A girl spends New Years Eve alone, reflecting on how she spent the previous year.

Directed by Helen Tadesse, often recognized as Ethiopia’s first female feature film director, the film centers on a teenage girl trying to live...

After the sudden break up of a relationship, a young man tries to make a film using the images of his ex-girlfriend that he had on his camera.

A documentary crew interviews the man responsible for taking care of the last surviving goldfish in the world.

This is the story of a man living quietly under an assumed identity, when a mysterious woman suddenly appears in his life. It is the directorial...

Sitting Idle (2021) is a meandering, meditative visual poem that follows the life of a nameless character over the course of a year - as he traverses...

Two lonely people struggle with summoning the courage to take another risk.

After a freak accident leaves a young man in a surreal limbo, he must team up with a talking puppet to map a mysterious island from fragments of...

This short animation film is based on a Tove Jansson picture book. It tells of the little knytt (“knytt” is a non-existing word...

A man that lives alone finds unexplainable notes in his bedroom.

A mosaic film about a group of people in the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands strugging with loneliness, hope and love.

A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now...

ISLANDS explores a cinematic journey of two astronauts. As they enter Earth’s atmosphere the structure transforms. The spacecraft becomes the...