Explore the temporal, physical, emotional, and mental impacts an absence can have on someone through these intricately woven touching tales.

A mother recites her last letter to her daughter. A daughter dreams of her last memories of her mother.

Dear Etoile

After the only boy accidentally “killed” an unborn brother during the one-child policy period, an encounter between him and a little boy dissolves his years of guilt.

Until He's Born

Following the death of her grandfather, Jiaying Lin documents her family in Shanghai as they navigate traditional rituals of mourning.

Holding You with Shaky Hands

A distraught teen attempts to track down her recently-deceased father's missing cat, only to unearth a devastating family secret in the process.

Canicas

After giving away her young daughter, an incarcerated immigrant mother begins to make sense of her guilt when she connects with a kindred inmate.

Red Prior

A blind boy bravely discovers the world -- his inner one and the one around him.

Touching Darkness

A woman named Brynja frantically searches for her 7-year-old daughter after she doesn't return home from school on time.

Gone

In Absentia

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The 18th National Film Festival for Talented Youth

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