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Loneliness & Isolation short films

Being alone in a crowded world, where nothing happens loudly. Shorts that stay in the long quiet and say everything.

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Helpline

Helplineby John Alen

A young psychology student takes his first call at a suicide hotline

3 min·intense · suspenseful

Hope Chest

Hope Chestby Dycee Wildman & Jennifer Bonior

Raised on murder TV, Eve dreams of the detective who mourns her

4 min·satirical · thought-provoking

Penny drops

Penny dropsby Louis Shergold

A widowed man escapes into the countryside for one last weekend away

12 min·emotional · heartwarming

42 Seconds

42 Secondsby Steve Anderson

Months after a mass shooting, survivors return to the diner where it happened

16 min·emotional · intense

Off the Face of the Earth

Off the Face of the Earthby Michael Pantozzi

A photographer captures a vanished woman on camera

18 min·atmospheric · mysterious

Always for the First Time

Always for the First Timeby John Caliendo & Victoria Meade

Memories of love and trauma intertwine in ways she never saw coming

19 min·intimate · romantic

Livestreams with GrandmaPuzzles

Livestreams with GrandmaPuzzlesby Emily Sheskin

A lifelong hobby becomes a lifeline for an unexpected Twitch streamer

6 min·heartwarming · inspiring

Gone Fishing

Gone Fishingby Henry Thompson

Two men catfish each other on a would-be date

9 min·heartwarming · intimate

Blocked

Blockedby Aisha Alfa

A new Mom consumed with the futility of cleaning up after her kid

6 min·comic · intense

Avocado Heart Girl

Avocado Heart Girlby Keeley Gainey

Invisible beside his disabled sister, a lonely boy finds friendship, identity and acceptance

19 min·emotional · heartwarming

Vessel

Vesselby Leila Garrison

A young disabled girl tries to escape the control of her religious mother

18 min·atmospheric · intense

El Chapulin

El Chapulinby Leo Stamps

After a decade in the U.S. and a fight with addiction, a man returns home to Mexico

16 min·heartwarming · meaningful

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Short films about loneliness and isolation.

Loneliness is hard to film because nothing happens, and short films are the form that knows how to stay in that nothing. One room, one person, one long quiet that says everything. These films are hand-picked, complete, and free to watch. Stories about being alone in a crowded world.

(Manic)quin follows an unemployed Plan B junkie having difficult conversations with a mannequin, and And Now I Lay Me Down sits with a once-famous actress arranging her perfect day, until it doesn't go as planned. #tagged traces the sweet intimacy and destructive power of social media, while Adam Adamson: Licensed Realtor asks who you can trust to find your dream apartment.

The best short films about loneliness and isolation offer company rather than a cure. Annie Waits tells a woman's story of lust, disappointment and waiting for 'The One', and Bad Mother is an unnerving short about motherhood with no one to lean on. Every film is editor-selected, free to stream in all 193 countries with no account. Press play, and sit with it a while.

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