Longing Movies

When a shooting star falls to earth, it longs to find a way back home to the sky.

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

Forced to leave her baby daughter with the child’s father, young mother Esther is caught in desperation and longing. Through the night she...

It is set in a dreary village in the Schwabian-Frankish Forest where the seemingly reserved Lena lives with her tyrant of a husband, Johannes, in a...

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 young woman revisits memories of her fiancé while silently coping with the distance that separates them. Amid routines that now feel...

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

A lonely ghost finds love at the graveyard.

Upon realizing there's not much time left, a teenager stuck in their bedroom, with only a window to the outside world, reflects on their life and...

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...

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...

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...

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

A college girl must navigate her unspoken feelings for her best friend — and race to protect her — when a drunken night spirals out of...

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...

A widow keeps her husband's memory alive through daily, silent gestures, until longing and love lead her to meet him again, in an ending where...

Shot using handheld technique from digital camera and partially on smartphone, In Her City is a short film telling the story of love through the...