Movies: Funeral

Hilmar Hodiak comes home conspicuously after eight years abroad, apparently to attend his mother's funeral. He initiates an affair with Simone, the maid aboard the ship which brings him home. A series of events take place to explain the deeper reason...

When Alex dies suddenly in a car crash, her loved ones fall into grief. But they are not the only ones who suffer, as Alex's soul is forced to linger on....

Joanna returns to her native village for her father's funeral. Later that night, a brawl breaks out in the family - the woman decides to fulfill her father's dream of a secular burial, which her mother categorically refuses to do. Joanna, in order to...

In 2004 Sheldon Oberman, a Jewish storyteller from Winnipeg, passed away. At his funeral the presiding Rabbi said that Sheldon’s spirit was with the congregants in the sanctuary. For filmmaker Saul Henteleff this was a revelation that began a person...

Two Farewells deals with Alzheimer's disease with a respectful sense of humor....

During 2020, when the pandemic policy loosened, a violinist went back to hometown to meet his parents and his friends. A sudden accident happened, everything changed, and a ceremony is no longer a "ceremony"....

Dark powers roam free, a woman dreams of a poppy field and her funeral....

In the wake of their father's death, two siblings must decide if they will honor his eccentric final wish....

This one means a lot to me. This film not only marks the break of a long hiatus from YouTube/filmmaking for me, but it is also the first film I have produced independently. I wrote the script a few weeks ago and began shooting shortly after. I'd lik...

Tom - while attempting to eulogise his very kind, caring mother - is interrupted by his girlfriend Ellie, who feels perhaps she should be receiving these kind of compliments and speeches a little more instead of his sadly passed mum, and can’t help h...

Richard and his sister, Maia, arrive at their Grandmother's funeral and find themselves incredibly uncomfortable with their family. As tensions build, Richard becomes increasingly insecure that he is not able to cry....

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

When estranged sisters Jade and Amber attend their mother’s funeral, long-held resentments and painful secrets come out into the open....

After the suicide of a teenage boy, his friends go through their own personal turmoil in isolation, on the Monday of his funeral....

Following the death of her estranged grandmother, a young girl witnesses the long-repressed hatred and pain within her family. Once they all gather for the funeral, emotionally triggered by the recent loss, she decides to take matters into her own ha...

In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, but above all, the paths the dead take to return to Anatolian soil....

Geoffrey, 12, and his brother Kimanthi, 15, have to travel to Shimoni to bury their grandmother. It is a most dreadful journey for the two as it will bring them face to face with the man who sexually molested them years ago....

Two men attempt to comfort their grieving friend in different ways...

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At a wake, Noah and Mia go out for some fresh air....