Movies like Slumberland

“Slumberland (2022) is a United States 2020s family-fantasy that stages a child's dream-quest as a ritualized encounter with absence. It frames its core dramatic conflict — a young girl's attempt to traverse dream-maps to reconnect with a lost parent — through cinematography-forward choices, emphasizing lighting-grammar, high-contrast-chiaroscuro and tactile visual-texture over spectacle alone. The film therefore reframes bereavement for contemporary family audiences as imaginative apprenticeship rather than simple catharsis.”