There is a person you want to talk to and talking to them is not an option. Maybe they are gone, maybe the relationship ended, maybe it is complicated. These films will not fix that but they understand exactly what it feels like.
Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.
The absence at the centre of this film is handled with care. It does not go near yours directly.
Grief-adjacent, not grief
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Grief-adjacent without being grief. The right distance for tonight.
Grief-adjacent, not grief
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
The absence at the centre of this film is handled with care. It does not go near yours directly.
Correct distance
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
The absence at the centre of this film is handled with care. It does not go near yours directly.
Correct distance
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
Grief-adjacent without being grief. The right distance for tonight.
Grief-adjacent, not grief
Correct distance
The silence is part of it. Let it be quiet.
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
The absence at the centre of this film is handled with care. It does not go near yours directly.
Correct distance
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
Grief-adjacent without being grief. The right distance for tonight.
Grief-adjacent, not grief
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
The absence at the centre of this film is handled with care. It does not go near yours directly.
Correct distance
In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.
The absence at the centre of this film is handled with care. It does not go near yours directly.
Grief-adjacent, not grief
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
Grief-adjacent without being grief. The right distance for tonight.
Grief-adjacent, not grief
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.