Movies: Longing

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 spending lock-down together in the wake of the 2020 pandemic, what starts as a platonic convenience ...

Two former college friends randomly reconnect at a coffee shop during a long winter night. As the night progresses, past events and emotions slowly begin to surface....

An observational mini-documentary following the home lives of Eve and Barry when Barry's work takes him offshore....

In rural Kosovo, identical houses are built for family members working abroad, in the hope that they will one day return to settle in their old homeland....

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

Two young people walk together late at night, sharing a cigarette. They search the smoke for connection and finally say the things that have been long left unsaid....

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....

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In their last summer together, two young men must confront the doom of change and come to terms with feelings they didn't know they had....

A short film about committment and long distance relationships...

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

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

A young Ukrainian street photographer reflects on his feelings of longing and connection to his father as he explores the streets of New York City....

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A semi-autobiographical short about a young man musing about the nostalgic joy of being a careless child....

This hand-painted film charts a collection of journeys both real and imagined....

A stuttering young boy, pressured by his father, finds solace in his bicycle—until a troubled boy steals it, leading to an unlikely friendship....

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 film portrays a family engulfed in their inner worlds. Between the sacrifices they make out of love f...

After initially forgetting about a 'sex pact' they had signed when they were seventeen, Emma and Christian meet seven years later to carry out a bygone promise....

A woman goes through her day to day life while navigating faith and longing...