You have feelings you are not going to say out loud. Maybe because of the situation, maybe because of what it would cost, maybe because saying it changes something you are not ready to change, and so you hold it quietly and learn to live around it. The dissociation helps. You find things that fill the space without requiring anything of you, the soft hum of films that let you feel something without having to act on it. These films understand that. They are very good at giving you somewhere to put it.
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.
It asks nothing of you. The world of this film is complete and self-contained and you can be in it without bringing anything from your actual life.
No presence required
Professor Gabriel Emerson finally learns the truth about Julia Mitchell's identity, but his realization comes a moment too late. Julia is done waiting for the well-respected Dante specialist to remember her and wants nothing more to do with him. Can Gabriel win back her heart bef
Warm without being demanding. It gives you somewhere else to be for a couple of hours without requiring your presence.
Soft enough to float through
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by
The kind of film that works when you need to not be in your own head. Low-friction, full world, no performance required.
Lets you be elsewhere
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
You can float through this one. It will hold you without asking you to hold it back.
Low-friction
No analysis required. You do not have to show up fully for any of these.
In Fujisawa, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. Blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted by the appearance of his first crush, Shoko Makinohara.
It asks nothing of you. The world of this film is complete and self-contained and you can be in it without bringing anything from your actual life.
No presence required
A young couple's relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. Angel, experiencing love for the first time and facing demons unsurmountable, runs from the new life she doesn't believe she deserves. When Michael sets out to find her, Angel disc
Warm without being demanding. It gives you somewhere else to be for a couple of hours without requiring your presence.
Soft enough to float through
After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.
The kind of film that works when you need to not be in your own head. Low-friction, full world, no performance required.
Lets you be elsewhere
An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible--forgiveness and love.
You can float through this one. It will hold you without asking you to hold it back.
Low-friction
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
It asks nothing of you. The world of this film is complete and self-contained and you can be in it without bringing anything from your actual life.
No presence required
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.
Warm without being demanding. It gives you somewhere else to be for a couple of hours without requiring your presence.
Soft enough to float through
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.
The kind of film that works when you need to not be in your own head. Low-friction, full world, no performance required.
Lets you be elsewhere
At the age of 10 years, young Rémi is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician. Has its hard sides - he will learn the harsh life of acrobat and sing to win his bread. Accompanied by the faithful dog capi and of the sm
You can float through this one. It will hold you without asking you to hold it back.
Low-friction
Somewhere else. That's all you needed. Here it is.