CinemaOSMovie · 2014

Absences

Documentary

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.

Directed byCarole Laganière

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Status
Released
Language
EN
Released
April 25, 2014
Studios
ONF | NFB

Featuring

Cast & crew

9 credited
Starring

Colette Sauvageau

Self

Deni Yvan Béchard

Self

Nathalie Bergeron

Self

Ines Hajrovic

Self

Yvonne Duguay

Self

Marcel Dumesnil

Self

Zekija Hajrovic

Self

Robert Hendrickson

Self

Laurette Sauvageau

Self

Creative team
Directed by
Carole Laganière
Carole Laganière
Written by
Carole Laganière
Carole Laganière
Produced by
Colette Loumède

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