Movies: Leaving home

The stories of four Iranian families who emigrate to Canada and the city they leave behind. As departure time approaches, social spaces become places of memory, fading into the distance....

Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his involvement in the protests of 1968 and a childhood friend died too soon....

Late 40’s after the war. Strange languaged and religioned immigrants fleeing from Karelia region are hated by Finns in the countryside. 19-year old Anni is living her life wanting to forget the war and hostility surrounding her. Falling in love with ...

A young woman is forced to leave her apartment for reasons beyond her control. As she evacuates on her last day there, she analyzes the emotional journey that represented the place which despite the difficulties, she managed to call home....

The Odyssey of director Radomir Belacevic who leaves his native village on his faithful horse named Knight and sets out to the capital trying to put his drama on the National Theatre's program, allegedly backed by foreign investors, too. Seduced by f...

An allegorical story about a young writer who leaves home with his manuscript determined to conquer the world, then returns home after years of struggle as an old man with the world still unconquered....

In an insurrectionary climate, four twenty-year-old friends talk about politics. As a big protest looms, one of them, Clara, has to write a college essay. Caught in the virtual images and the comfort of her bedroom, going out is harder than expected....

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Two childhood friends make an attempt to leave home after an unfortunate coming out the closet....

A jobs program for people on the autism spectrum gives Terrence (aka T-Man) the footing to live independently for the first time....

Wajdi and Maia are spending their last days together before Wajdi travels to a new start away from the Lebanese situation....

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