MesmeroWatch list, 0 saved

Movie
Poster for Mpaka

Mpaka

2020 · 10 min

A quiet, unsettling meditation on loss and ritual, heavy with industrial noise and a sense of something slipping away.

Overview
A hazy layer covers an abandoned town, the noise has replaced the sounds of nature, the machines do not stop. A man performs a rite to try to save us.

Search YouTube for the trailer

In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
In your watch list

How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • environment
  • isolation
  • grief
  • faith
  • survival
Places
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour0
Realism7
Romance0
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

More like this

Titles like Mpaka

Movie

Polis

2009

A wordless, hypnotic drift through a city's ceaseless building and unbuilding, equal parts unsettling and beautiful.

Melancholic, eerie, slow-burn · about environment and isolation · documentary

Via
  • melancholic
  • eerie
  • environment
  • isolation
  • documentary
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
engaged
Runtime
22 min
Details In your watch list
PolisHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

My Body Given for You

2019

A quiet, black-and-white meditation that feels like a slow, haunting prayer, asking you to sit with emptiness and longing.

Melancholic, eerie, slow-burn · about isolation and grief · documentary

Via
  • melancholic
  • eerie
  • isolation
  • grief
  • documentary
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
12 min
Details In your watch list
My Body Given for YouHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Ecos transeuntes

2021

A quiet, reflective drift through emptied places that lingers on absence and memory like a held breath.

Melancholic, eerie, slow-burn · about isolation and grief · documentary

Via
  • melancholic
  • eerie
  • isolation
  • grief
  • documentary
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
engaged
Runtime
16 min
Details In your watch list
Ecos transeuntesHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

A quiet, mournful watch as a town is literally erased around the people who still call it home.

Melancholic, slow-burn · about environment and isolation · documentary

Via
  • melancholic
  • environment
  • isolation
  • documentary
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
engaged
Runtime
104 min
Details In your watch list
Once You Shall Be One of Those Who Lived Long AgoHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

The Presence

1965

A hushed, mournful gaze at ruin and ritual, letting silence and decay carry the weight of memory.

Melancholic, slow-burn · about isolation and faith · documentary

Via
  • melancholic
  • isolation
  • faith
  • documentary
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
engaged
Runtime
8 min
Details In your watch list
The PresenceHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Mater inerta

2022

A quiet, contemplative documentary that lingers on a fading rural world, asking for patience and rewarding it with a mournful, humanistic mood.

Melancholic, slow-burn · about environment and isolation · documentary

Via
  • melancholic
  • environment
  • isolation
  • documentary
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
28 min
Details In your watch list
Mater inertaHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Good Soil

2013

It is a quiet, somber meditation on the encroachment of industry upon a fragile, lonely existence.

Melancholic · about environment and isolation · documentary

Via
  • melancholic
  • environment
  • isolation
  • documentary
Pacing
measured
Attention
engaged
Runtime
9 min
Details In your watch list
Good SoilHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Burning Fragments

2019

A quiet, hypnotic meditation on destruction, watching a house burn in near silence.

Melancholic, slow-burn · about grief and survival · documentary

Via
  • melancholic
  • grief
  • survival
  • documentary
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
engaged
Runtime
20 min
Details In your watch list
Burning FragmentsHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Once Faithful

2024

A hushed, patient drift through empty sacred rooms where light and time do the talking, leaving a quiet ache behind.

Melancholic, eerie, slow-burn · about isolation and faith · documentary

Via
  • melancholic
  • eerie
  • isolation
  • faith
  • documentary
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
71 min
Details In your watch list
Once FaithfulHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Belgium - 20

2021

A quiet, contemplative essay on emptied streets and stalled systems, watching stillness settle over a city with an eerie, meditative calm.

Melancholic, eerie, slow-burn · about isolation and survival · documentary

Via
  • melancholic
  • eerie
  • isolation
  • survival
  • documentary
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
15 min
Details In your watch list
Belgium - 20Hidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Amazônia Vermelha

A hypnotic, immersive plunge into a burning forest, more sensory ritual than report, leaving a heavy sense of loss and urgent resistance.

Eerie, slow-burn · about environment and survival · documentary

Via
  • eerie
  • environment
  • survival
  • documentary
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
10 min
Details In your watch list
Amazônia VermelhaHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Cinema Kawakeb

2025

A hushed, observational elegy that lingers on empty seats and worn walls, asking you to sit quietly with loss and remember what once filled the room.}{.

Melancholic, slow-burn · about isolation and grief · documentary

Via
  • melancholic
  • isolation
  • grief
  • documentary
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
engaged
Runtime
78 min
Details In your watch list
Cinema KawakebHidden from your suggestions.

Where to watch in the UK

No UK streaming, rental or purchase options are known.

Streaming data from JustWatch.TMDB

Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Violeta Mora Acosta
Written by
Adriana Otero Vargas
Starring
Alberto Leal
Cinematography
Juliette Valentin
Runtime
10 min
Country
Honduras
Languages
Spanish

TMDB