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Documentary on the social pandemic of fatherlessness afflicting today's societies.
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Documentary on the social pandemic of fatherlessness afflicting today's societies.
Unable to afford proper menstrual products, Chloe is constantly faced with anxiety and humiliation; this is not the first time this has happened and it won’t be the last. 'Absent' is based on multiple true stories and ma
Loving absentee father Iqbal, having missed every milestone in his now grown up daughter Aziza's life, makes one last desperate attempt to reach out to her... but it just might be too late.
For over a hundred years, Mărculești was a vibrant Jewish agricultural and mercantile community in Bessarabia (now present-day Moldova). In July 1941, the village was the site of an unimaginable atrocity. Seventy-three y
An old man, tormented by the sudden absence of his son who died as a result of terrorism, expresses his pain and protest by painting the walls black.
Martín, a young student, gets injured during a swimming class. Sebastián, the PE teacher, takes him to the hospital. When they leave, he offers to drive him home, but Martín is planning to spend the night at a classmate'
Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his partn
A private chauffeur drives you around, wherever you like, whenever you like, but do you even know who or what drives you?
When a teenage girl becomes impregnated by God, she finds he's never around when she needs him.
Making a stage from two public spaces in Iran which women are prohibited from entering, Maryam Tafakory’s depiction of men and women coming of age draws parallels while commenting on this separation of the genders. The a
Richard Has A Secret. A Secret That Has Shaped His Entire Life. A Secret He Can't Tell To Anyone - Until Now. Richard has been having a hard time, he has been suffering flashbacks of the past, but not in the way that you
Resigned to a mundane life of caring for a mother with dementia, Zola sees a fleeting chance at escape when she runs into an old crush.
Winter in a big city. Thirty-year-old Klara arrives home with a random guy that she has just met. Both are drunk, they are giggling, having fun. But there is someone else in the apartment: Anton (9) catches them having s
“Reading Rimbaud today means to relate his experiences, his desires, to ours – it means that we see a strong connection between his quest and what is today at stake in gay issues. Selecting pieces of poems and letters I
A shell-shocked black soldier is cared for by a miner and his daughter when he wanders into their camp, and makes a fresh start in life with the aid of the American Legion.
Mert, a 30-year-old male, is employed at an abandoned-looking amusement park, grappling with an internal duality, while sensing a lurking identity bent on undermining him. Throughout the film, Mert interacts with various
Bumbling professor Ned Brainard accidentally invents flying rubber, or "Flubber", an incredible material that gains energy every time it strikes a hard surface. It allows for the invention of shoes that can allow jumps o
What remains when something or someone disappears? A meditation on absence, memory, and the unseen forces that linger beyond perception.
Student Absenteeism is a growing problem, with some Winnipeg North End schools with rates exceeding 70%. Indigenous and inner city students are disproportionately affected, and a lack of effective provincial action has f