Longing Movies

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

Ukrainian sculptor who is taking wife's death hard acquires the hope to begin a new life after appearance of Iraqi refugee. He desires to fall in...

A short film about commitment and long-distance relationships.

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...

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

The Sadies Stop and Start captures a moment in time. That time was uncertain and dark. Still reeling from losing Dallas, we found out that Mike...

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...

A person performs routine tasks and relaxing activities to fight a troubling zeitgeist.

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

The director of the film travels to India to find the woman she met six years before with whom she bonded spiritually. Equipped with only a rosary...

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.

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...

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...

As summer turns into fall and fall turns to winter, two people with an unresolved connection quietly debate whether to reach out or move on, before...

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.

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...