Movies and TvShows featuring "mourning-ritual" theme.

Shiva Baby follows Danielle, a young bisexual woman, as she attends a Jewish funeral reception and navigates encounters with her ex-girlfriend, her overbearing parents, and her sugar daddy. The day becomes increasingly chaotic and comedic as secrets are revealed and tensions rise.

Rhapsody in August is a comedy-drama movie set in post-World War II Japan. It follows a family as they gather in Nagasaki to mourn their grandfather's death. The story explores the relationships between different generations and the impact of war on their lives. The plot revolves around the grandmother-granddaughter relationship and the discovery of a long-lost relative. The movie also touches upon themes of forgiveness, survival, and family bonds.

After the loss of his daughter, Jurek, together with his father-in-law Ben, decides to perform the Chinese minghun ritual

Meeting after many years, a makeup artist and her grandmother revisit tensions from an old family feud that still hangs heavy between them.

A young woman crosses a confined provincial town and its outskirts. Once at her destination, a strange mourning protocol awaits her.

“Gjama” is a rarely practiced mourning ritual that was performed by Albanian men throughout the centuries. By shouting specific phrases and acting out a strict choreography, it is a way of paying respect to the deceased but also overcoming grief and pain over the loss of a loved one. Through the documentation of the re-enactment of the ritual, Zgjim Elshani seeks to recover fragments of the practice in the communities where this form of collective grieving is still a way of overcoming loss. By doing so, the project intends to rethink collective grieving and what it means to publicly display emotions in a male-headed society.

An ant colony finds that the strange new food source they've discovered may be something more of a curse than a boon.