Contemplative Cinema Movies

A woman returning from an overseas volunteer posting takes the ferry home to her mother. A bittersweet tale on love, family and global warming.

A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy...

A field laborer fights to survive in a hostile environment. The appearance of a strange presence and a revolver will change his destiny.

Northern Portugal. An imposing residence with its garden and magnolia tree. As we know, home is a place that film, this outdoor art, has often used...

Jack wants to know if Ollie “like likes” him. But Ollie is meditating. So, he asks a bird instead.

Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a...

Two lonely people cross paths while working in a coffee shop. Even with opposite personalities, they both want to move forward with the business...

"Protected by the mountains that surround the neighbourhood, on the outskirts of the city of Sabará, Brazil, a group of young people are...

A filming exercise becomes a memory of young Nico's crush and fall for his classmate, Iris.

Faced with the imminent apocalypse, a group of teenagers seeks refuge and joy at a campsite, where they confront the final days of humanity with...

Contemplative and almost without dialogues, the film shows the routine of inhabitants in a city: a young woman who lives alone; an eldery that lives...

A remote and wild island on the west coast of Scotland is home to a small group of people that live in deep connection with the land, the sea and the...

For Sarah, her past has become a blur but she can’t shake the feeling that something horrible is locked away in her memories. Drawn back to her...

A boy traverses through thoughts of past, present, and future on a contemplative trip through the city.

In a rainy afternoon drive, a man embarks on a journey through his memories. As he questions his faith, the line between past and present begins to...

A young woman is obsessed by memories of her lover, who had vanished the previous summer.

An philosophical film assembled from archival NASA footage exploring humanity’s search for meaning in the silence of space.

A man reads a letter from his away girlfriend while he contemplates on some memorable places in Jakarta, where they had spent time together.

A meditation on memory around Iceland's famous Ring Road.