Movies: Loss and grief

Jake loves living in Chicago but when big city violence hits a little too close to home his parents buy a campground in rural Minnesota and move the family there. Jake hates living at the campground until he meets Peter, the boy across the river. The...

After the tragic loss of their son, perfect couple Gemma and Will begin to experience strange auditory hallucinations and losses of vision, as they attempt to escape their worries while vacationing at an acquaintance's remote cottage in the Lake Dist...

Three teen girls from the wrong side of the tracks commit crimes against an elderly woman. But their punishment doesn't seem to fit their crimes....

When their father vanishes with their mother's urn, Joaquin and Ara uncover an unfinished storybook she wrote, leading them on a journey through restaurants their parents once visited, in a desperate search for their missing father and answers....

When the tragedy strikes Josh, to the confusion and concern of his best friend Andy, Josh shows no signs of grief outwardly and carries on in his daily affairs with alarming normalcy....

An adolescent dreamer struggles to find closure after the untimely death of his older brother....

A young woman struggles with a personal tragedy, as the memories of her childhood come back to haunt her in ways she could have never expected....

After his colleague self-destructs by eating ice cream, android Clu tries to process his emotions....

A young girl's faith is tested, when her parents are suddenly killed in a car accident and she's forced to move in with relatives who don't share her belief in God. A talented singer, who desires to worship God with her songs, she finds herself in a...

Filmmaker Jennifer Abbott explores the emotional and psychological dimensions of the climate crisis and the relationship between grief and hope in times of personal and planetary change....

In the wake of Megan's sudden passing, her best friends Frances and Taylor work together to honor her wishes to remove any contraband items from her bedroom in efforts to preserve her image to her mourning parents. Confronted by conflicting perceptio...

When his wife and child choose to leave for a world beyond ours, a grieving man must fight his guilt, and decide whether to remain in their home that haunts him or follow them into the unknown....

Aim (Aimme), a Thai immigrant navigating grief and lost dreams, returns to New York after her mother’s passing and is surprised by the sudden reappearance of her ex, Sandra, on a quiet August evening....

After losing her grandfather when she was less than a year old, a now very conflicted teen must learn how to navigate her grief even though she absolutely does not want to...

Andy struggles to overcome the death of his older sister while trying to revive the connection with his mother....

SYNCHRONOUS is an intimate portrait of love and the reverse side of love: mourning. The granddaughter/maker looks idealistically at the endless love between her grandfather and grandmother. When her grandfather dies, she decides to look for answers b...

Maggie is an 18-year-old girl who leaves her adopted Christian home after her father's tragic death. Trying to fill a void in her life, Maggie feels the need to locate her birth mother. What she finds is not what she hoped for. Maggie finds a mother ...

Unsure of how to navigate a recent breakup, Penelope turns to a local community group for support. She soon discovers, however, that this eclectic mix is anything but normal, and everyone grieves in their own way....

Once a top rising comedian, Topper quickly falls from grace and finds himself struggling to get by in the cutthroat comedy scene of LA. His inability to face and accept his childhood has kept him from progressing. After an unexpected visit from a gho...

An overbearing mother struggling to keep a daughter alive after a divorce from her ex-husband....