Absent Present (2010)

Directed by

Angelika Levi

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 25m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker searches for a man named Benji who was brought to East Germany as a child and later sent back to Namibia. As she follows traces of his story and interviews people she meets, the film becomes an essay about different kinds of travel including holiday trips, migration, and forced returns.

associativerestlessmelancholicexploratorypersonalmeditativefragmentedsearching

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