Letter Movies

A live-action film that shows how an unexpected letter causes a neatly ordered existence to come apart

Like most Fleischer cartoons from the early '30s, there are lots of stream-of-conscious gags here. They are related by Bimbo's adventures as a...

A mailman in rural East Tennessee who struggles to make a human connection with others is forced to reconsider his involvement in the life of his...

A letter made up of excerpts, fragments, and details from cinema and its predecessors. Images and sounds—collected over the years. I thought...

After years of silence from the woman he once loved across borders, a lonely man revisits their memories through a heartfelt letter, searching for...

What happens when you are left alone with nothing to be remembered for? A man tries to keep his sanity in tact by writing a letter to get help, but...

In pursuit of a better life, Sophie is determined to leave her war-torn hometown of Kyiv and her family behond. Her younger sister, Marie, tries to...

Sparked by an unexpected movie ticket, Mary began writing to a long-lost primary school pen pal. This visual diary documents a journey to rediscover...

Fiel et Miel tells the story of Daril, an unemployed man who loves Mabele. Mabele's father, Paulchico, wants her to marry an educated and rich man. A...

A man with suicidal thoughts lives isolated in his apartment in a repetitive routine while receiving letters from an unknown woman.

The narration of a letter which consists of themes such as the passing of time, the unexpectedness of life, the fear of death, and the fear of change.

In the peaceful hamlet of Dzuluk, a man is about to return to his wife of thirty four years, a marriage they have sustained mostly through letters.

On going series exploring personal memory, displacement, and the act of writing unsent letters. It is built from archival footage filmed during a...