Items8The creator’s order
  1. 1Father and Daughter (2001)Father and Daughter (2001) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 19, 2001Michaël Dudok de Wit's wordless animation follows a daughter whose father says goodbye and leaves when she is small, then moves through her whole life, from girlhood to old age, with the longing for him never quite fading. That is what makes it so useful for a grief that has been around for years:…0
  2. 2One Small Step (2018)One Small Step (2018) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased Jun 25, 2018Luna dreams of becoming an astronaut, and her single father, a shoe repairman, backs her from the start, down to a pair of astronaut boots for her sixth birthday. When he dies, she sinks into depression and lets the dream go for a while. The film is honest that grief can knock a long-held plan off…0
  3. 3Negative Space (2017)Negative Space (2017) 7.4/10 on IMDbReleased Jun 12, 2017Five and a half minutes of stop motion adapted from a 150-word prose poem by Ron Koertge. A son remembers how his often-absent father taught him to pack a suitcase, the one ritual they truly shared, and the film carries that memory all the way to the father's casket, where the son catches himself…0
  4. 4An Irish Goodbye (2022)An Irish Goodbye (2022) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 4, 2022The one to choose when you need to laugh as well as grieve. In rural Northern Ireland, two estranged brothers, Lorcan, who has Down syndrome, and Turlough, are thrown back together by their mother's sudden death, and then they find the bucket list she never finished. It plays as a comedy as much…0
  5. 5The Dream Machine (2025)The Dream Machine (2025) 6.2/10 on IMDbReleased Mar 8, 2025Bereft after her husband's death, Marianne sees a commercial for a new machine that offers the impossible: a way to be with him again. Anyone who has caught themselves bargaining for one more conversation will recognize the pull. Jimmy Marble's eight-minute film is mostly 2D animation and deeply…0
  6. 6Anu (2023)Anu (2023)Released Jul 29, 2023A recently widowed woman moves from India to New Zealand and, stuck in hotel quarantine, has to carry out the Hindu funeral rite meant to grant the departed's soul salvation with only what she has on hand. Pulkit Arora wrote and directed it out of his own grief and displacement, and the restraint…0
  7. 7Wander to Wonder (2024)Wander to Wonder (2024) 6.7/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 12, 2024Three tiny performers starred in a 1980s children's television show called Wander to Wonder, and when its creator dies, they are left alone in the studio, still trying to make the show without the man who held it together. It is the strangest film here and will not suit everyone, but it gets at…0
  8. 8If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)If Anything Happens I Love You (2020) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased Nov 20, 2020Two parents move through their home in silence after their daughter is killed in a school shooting, while their shadows argue, pull apart and reach for each other. There is no dialogue, only the distance between two people in agony over the same loss. This is the heaviest film on the list, and the…0