Absences

Absences

2014
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Overview

Carole Laganière dives deeply into personal territory in this beautifully crafted exploration of absence and loss and its painful effect on daily lives. Inspired by her mother’s steadily advancing Alzheimer’s and the inevitability of her estrangement, Laganière weaves their story with the stories of others wrestling with loss: Ines, an immigrant who returns to her birth country of Croatia to find the mother who abandoned her during the war; Deni, an American author who’s finally able to search for his Quebec roots; and Nathalie, who’s desperately looking for her missing sister. Through their experiences the film ponders how absence is often the catalyst for a quest—a quest for information, understanding and often acceptance. Through its many voices, Absences speaks to us of the immense fragility and resiliency of human emotions.

Status: Released

Language: EN

Production Information

Production Companies
ONF | NFB
Production Countries
Canada
Spoken Languages
Croatian English French

Quick Facts

Release Date April 25, 2014
Status Released
Language EN

Cast

Colette Sauvageau
Colette Sauvageau

Self

Deni Yvan Béchard
Deni Yvan Béchard

Self

Nathalie Bergeron
Nathalie Bergeron

Self

Ines Hajrovic
Ines Hajrovic

Self

Yvonne Duguay
Yvonne Duguay

Self

Marcel Dumesnil
Marcel Dumesnil

Self

Zekija Hajrovic
Zekija Hajrovic

Self

Robert Hendrickson
Robert Hendrickson

Self

Laurette Sauvageau
Laurette Sauvageau

Self

Key Crew

Carole Laganière
Director
Colette Loumède
Producer
Carole Laganière
Writer