Diary of a Father (2023)

Original title

Journal d'un père

Directed by

Claude Demers

Genre

documentary

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 15m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker reflects on his own childhood as an adoptee who never knew his biological father, and how that shapes his current relationship with his own daughter, who lives far away with her mother. The film is a personal essay about the distance and longing in a father-daughter bond.

reflectiveintimatemelancholiccontemplativepersonalpoignantwistfulquiet

What happens

Diary of a Father (French: Journal d'un père) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Claude Demers and released in 2024. The film is a personal essay about fatherhood, reflecting on how his childhood as an adoptee who never knew his biological father has impacted his contemporary experience as father to a daughter he cannot see as often as he might wish because she lives with her mother in another country. The film premiered at the 2023 Montreal International Documentary Festival, before going into commercial release in 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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