Short Films About Grief

The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience.

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

François Truffaut

Cast

Jean-François Stévenin, Virginie Thévenet, Chantal Mercier

Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to n...

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

Cast

Graham Chapman, John Cleese

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast

Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli

Composed of six unconventional vignettes, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, a narrative is told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceaușescu's regime.

Runtime

2h 35m

Director

Cristian Mungiu, Hanno Höfer

Cast

Tania Popa, Alexandru Potocean, Teodor Corban

A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.

Runtime

1h 50m

Cast

Francesca Hayward, Judi Dench, Idris Elba