Movies: Solitude

An observational documentary following Steven Brooke and how the solitude of painting impacts his life and artwork....

On the age of 51, a father leaves his family to live as a carpenter. Away from the family and house burdens, he spends his last 15 years living alone. From the point of view of his child, the idealistic father then changes his mind to let go of every...

“TheMinxFlavor!” is a poetic and visual dive into the meanders of solitude. Made with modest means, this film transforms familiar places into dreamlike spaces thanks to a retro aesthetic and the omnipresence of purple, symbol of mystery and introspec...

While waiting for his girlfriend to join him in the calm and quiet countryside, city dweller Marc gradually falls prey to the assault of sounds not usually heard....

Young stewardess works in a luxury, long – distance train. Its destination is Paris. Travellers are mostly couples on their way to the capital of love. Stewardess becomes the unintentional witness of their quiet intimacy and intensive tenderness. Ove...

...

Exploring the duality between friendship and loneliness, this intimate narrative short tells the story of David, a bright young boy struggling with a broken home life, as he tries to reconnect with his childhood best friends as they search for someth...

...

I traveled to South Africa to find a white family living on a desolate farm. I wanted to film how they faced the new days of equality after the fall of Apartheid. But I soon lost my way both on the endless roads and in my way. Instead, the film becam...

After two men find the corpse of a woman in their back garden tensions rise as they debate about what exactly they should do next....

...

A Short film by Christophe Bisson...

Silent Breaths Beneath Electric Glow is an evocative exploration of beauty and solitude, set entirely within a neon-lit aquarium. Through mesmerizing visuals of luminous marine life and the soft hum of electric currents, the film captures the quiet p...

Fragments of memories of a boy's time spent with his sister and their grandfather in a remote mountain village. As events unfold, the grandfather comes of age, takes no food and disappears one dawn. Eventually, the daughter leaves the deserted villag...

...

Leonor desperately search for her son Perico, without realizing that she is wrapped in her Alzheimer's disease....

Left to her own devices during an August heatwave, a seven-year-old wild child and her companion have an adventure filled with squirt guns, cicadas and rain dances....

Located ten miles off the coast of mainland New England, the Oceanic Hotel is the grand, yet far-from-modern home to the thousands of guests who brave the choppy seas to visit during the warmer spring and summer months. Off-season, the hotel and the ...

...

Set in a small, typical Belarusian village – granny Sima’s only concern is for the future of her alcoholic son, Vanya. Accompanied by her best friend, a white goat called Manya, she starts a war with her neighbor, Glasha, who happens to be the villag...