Funeral Movies

Winter. Snow is sweeping, a blizzard howls. The wife of old Foma died. Fomka takes a coffin on a sleigh to a village graveyard along a deserted,...

The ripple effect of a brother and sister's past catches up to them at the funeral of their father.

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories...

Three working-class Manila women — Stella, Doray and Choleng — are hired as paid mourners at a traditional Chinese funeral.

According to Emma Pine (direction), Assumptions is a short film focusing on a young female point of view and her emotional behaviour. It aims to...

The career of Tuomas’ in the music industry is in a downhill spiral – but his plans of getting married with Leila are in full swing....

Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.

Jan-Olof has an unresolved relationship with his father, and during the days leading up to the funeral, he tries to find out who the father really...

This intimate drama follows a prisoner serving his sentence who gets the chance to attend his mother's funeral. Instead of a warm welcome, however,...

An Israeli Mossad agent realizes he's dead and attends his own funeral.

A dramedy about Carla, an aspiring singer estranged from her family, who hopes to find solace by attending her father's funeral.

Cut From Cloth is a short family drama, set on the day of a funeral. After he passes away, three estranged siblings gather round their father's...

Set in 1950s rural Ireland, this is a powerful story of the relationship between father and so. Amid emigration and war, John Doyle’s feud with...

Jimmy Arnaud eulogizes his mother.

Phil, a Vietnam War veteran and aspiring performer, stumbles upon a chest containing the spirit of a medieval jester and killer known as Chicot....

An exhausted and under-appreciated Dana Langley leads a funeral that doesn't seem to end.

A humble clerk yearns for an overcoat, but his employer's refusal and his subsequent death lead him to return as a ghost, determined to claim the...

A mother and son attend a funeral for someone they really don't know, and intend to leave right after, but end up leading the procession to the...

After years of bitter separation, Quinn learns that his brother Ray is gone for good. Seeking closure, he attends the funeral where he meets Daphne...

In 2004 Sheldon Oberman, a Jewish storyteller from Winnipeg, passed away. At his funeral the presiding Rabbi said that Sheldon’s spirit was...