The feeling is there. You have been keeping it at arm's length by turning it into something you can think about rather than something you have to feel, which is not avoidance exactly, more like a delay you have negotiated with yourself. You name the patterns, you read the relevant material, you build the case for how this happened and why. These films will not interrupt that. They carry their emotional weight through precision and craft, and the feeling arrives anyway, from the side, the way it always does when you are looking somewhere else.
As Frank Castle searches for meaning beyond revenge, an unexpected force pulls him back into the fight.
It gives your mind something real to work with. The feeling is present but arrives through craft and precision, which is the angle you need right now.
Something to think with
Second chances start when a hardened criminal crosses paths with a precocious little girl who is helped by an angel to change hearts during the holiday season.
Complex enough to keep your analytical side engaged. The emotion lands anyway, just from a direction you weren't watching.
Earns its feeling
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
It earns its weight through structure. Your brain gets the workout it came for, and something true gets through underneath.
Mind first, then heart
Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.
Smart enough to meet you where you are. The grief is inside the architecture of it, not on the surface where you would have to deal with it directly.
Precision over sentiment
These films work not because they explain the feeling but because they earn your trust before they go near it.
19 year old Isaiah Wright lives for basketball and video games. A year out of high school, he has no job, no plans, and no idea how to be a man. At odds with his single mother Cynthia, Isaiah is given an ultimatum - to step up or move out. Feeling the pull from his friends and th
It gives your mind something real to work with. The feeling is present but arrives through craft and precision, which is the angle you need right now.
Something to think with
The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.
Complex enough to keep your analytical side engaged. The emotion lands anyway, just from a direction you weren't watching.
Earns its feeling
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Moto
It earns its weight through structure. Your brain gets the workout it came for, and something true gets through underneath.
Mind first, then heart
Haruki secretly had feelings for Akihiko for years, but Akihiko was still in a relationship with his roommate, the violinist Ugetsu Murata. Haruki, Akihiko, and Ugetsu's love clashes and starts to move forward.
Smart enough to meet you where you are. The grief is inside the architecture of it, not on the surface where you would have to deal with it directly.
Precision over sentiment
As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.
It gives your mind something real to work with. The feeling is present but arrives through craft and precision, which is the angle you need right now.
Something to think with
In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries an unorthodox new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential... and perhaps even their genius.
Complex enough to keep your analytical side engaged. The emotion lands anyway, just from a direction you weren't watching.
Earns its feeling
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other aga
It earns its weight through structure. Your brain gets the workout it came for, and something true gets through underneath.
Mind first, then heart
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Smart enough to meet you where you are. The grief is inside the architecture of it, not on the surface where you would have to deal with it directly.
Precision over sentiment
The right film gives your mind somewhere to go. These do.