grieving

Maria recounted the chronology of her father's death many times to the visiting guests.

An aspiring painter struggles to find passion for his art after the death of his mother.

Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez knows that he is soon to lose two loved ones: his mother Gina Coppe and his best friend Danniel Danniel. Both ask him to film them during this final phase of their lives—Gina in her apartment in Mexico City, Danniel in a Dutch restaurant where he feels at home. What stories do they want to leave behind?

A young woman (Arielle Friedman of "Unholy" & "Good Boy") consistently conjures the likeness of her ex-lover in her grief-addled home. Her building's maintenance worker (Mark Wallace) enters her life, offering the potential for a new relationship long before she has processed the former. This ‘in-betweenness’ defines the piece; dreams are treated as temporal imprints, rather than subconscious fantasies. One relationship colors another. General Maintenance encourages us to consider that our bodies, like Maria’s, exist in all moments of our lives, simultaneously. We made this film for anyone who has experienced a period of sturdy grief, especially as a result of sexual violence by a close partner.

In an upper-middle class family in Los Angeles, tensions between a Jewish mother-in-law and her black daughter-in-law come to a head following the death of a family member.

Estranged siblings Genevieve and Stephen are caught in their father's cabin during a thunderstorm, emptying it from what it used to be. The electricity fails and they slowly find the calm that they were looking for.

A grieving and distraught father must accept his feelings and make a decision that will change the course of his life forever.

Filmmaker Gustave Demoen, the best friend Cyriel left behind, spends a year closely following his parents in the idyllic setting of their rural home, acting as both confidant and observer. As the seasons pass, we come to know Krista and Tom, who, full of love for their son and for each other, find ways to ease the weight of daily life through small, everyday rituals.

Stories about life and death during the Day of the Dead season.

A young priest prepares for another night of ritual pain, but when Joy appears to confront his devotion to suffering, he's forced to choose between healing and the seductive pull of Grief.

pretty thing I used to know, and how I miss you. a study of the end of the grieving process, when raw emotions mix with, and give way to, benign nostalgia.

A grieving woman's eulogy to the deceased.