Contemplative Cinema Movies

When Benny's younger brother, Loren, suddenly reappears after being missing for months, the two are forced to reckon with the drastically different...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

For a long time, the Adriatic Sea used to be Central Europe's only link to the orient. This small sea became a symbol of entry to the vast, exotic...

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.