Funeral Movies

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

You only die once. A film about the life of a corpse.

Documentary about Canada's war veterans and the meaning of Remembrance Day. Voiceover narration accompanies battle footage from the First and Second...

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

A queer and trans found family create a death ritual that weaves together the inextricable experiences of grief and eros, community and country.

Victims of a tragic air crash are honoured in a sombre military funeral procession through the streets of Hitchin.

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...

Following the death of his friend Alfred, Ryan prepares to deliver a eulogy. What begins as an attempt to remember the dead gradually becomes a...

When his father suffers a heart attack the elders in the Mormon community decide to conduct a priesthood blessing ceremony, gay son David asks to...

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...

When Sam returns home to the tidal island where he grew up to attend a funeral, he soon discovers that the seedy underbelly of this small community...

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

Despite the recent dissolution of their relationship, a couple must reunite to bury their pet.

A funeral parade in Cairo.

A sweet, sad philosophical contemplation about what death is like for our dogs and what it might be for us.

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...

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

This short film explores the relationship between a man and a woman in a funeral. After the event, the couple faces tensions due to the lack of...

There is a special moment in the lives of the that can be described by a single word: Mabadong. Toraja funerals are as they were 500 years ago. The...

During 2020, when the pandemic policy loosened, a violinist went back to hometown in mainland China to meet his parents and his friends. A sudden...