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1) Land
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"A bereaved woman seeks out a new life, off the grid in Wyoming"--www.imdb.com.
6) Foreverland
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"A young man with cystic fibrosis, along with the sister of a fallen friend, goes in search of a legendary healing shrine in Mexico"--from www.imdb.com.
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After a death of a loved one, grownups are often unsure about how to help young children. Death is a difficult concept for adults to process, and most feel helpless in the presence of a grieving child. For children, there is an added dimension. Their capacity to make send of the loss is filtered through the lens of their developmental state. After some discussion of infants and toddlers, our young experts, ages 4-12, explain with patience and wisdom,...
11) Frantz
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Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eye's of the war's "lost generation": Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
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For Australian documentary filmmaker John Darling, the tragic events of 12 October 2002 compelled him to re-establish his links with Bali that spanned some 30 years. John had lived, researched and made films in Bali for 17 years from the 1970s to the 1990s, and The healing of Bali is his observation of the Balinese response to the bombings and the aftermath. His film presents an intimate insight into traditional and modern Balinese methods of grieving...
13) Good-bye old man
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At the request of a dying Tiwi man and his family on Melville Island, this film was made of the pukumani (bereavement) ceremony to follow his death. The film observes the family through the long period of preparation for the ceremony, following age-old traditions. Dancing and face-painting are rehearsed, to the family's satisfaction, and because "things should be right for this film". For the two days of ceremony, the community moves to Carslake Beach...
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When Geraldine Kawanka's husband died, she and her children moved out of their house. In earlier times, their bark house would have been burnt, but today a "house-opening" ceremony has evolved, creatively mingling Aboriginal, Torres Strait, and European traditions in order to deal with death in the context of new living patterns in the Aboriginal community of Aurukun, on the Cape York Peninsula, north Queensland. This beautifully observed documentary...
15) Hold me tight
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Vicky Krieps gives another riveting performance as Clarisse, a woman on the run from her family for reasons that arent immediately clear. Widely renowned as one of Frances great contemporary actors but less well-known in North America for his equally impressive work behind the camera, Mathieu Amalrics sixth feature as director is his most ambitious to date. This virtuosic, daringly fluid portrait of a woman in crisis alternates between Clarisses adventures...
17) Homegoings
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Through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African American funerals are brought to life. Filmed at the Owens Funeral Home in Harlem and the rural South, director Christine Turner's Homegoings takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition, history and celebration. It reveals the special status of undertakers in the community;...
18) Never ever
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Résumé: "Laura et Rey vivent dans une maison au bord de la mer. Il est cinéaste, elle crée des "performances" dont elle est l'actrice. Rey meurt -- accident, suicide ?--, la laissant seule dans cette maison. Mais bientôt, seule, elle ne l'est plus. Quelqu'un est là, c'est Rey, par et pour elle, comme un rêve plus long que la nuit, pour qu'elle survive"--D'après www.allocine.fr.
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