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Don't Come Searching

Don't Come Searching poster
Directed by
Andrew Moir
Country
Canada
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A Jamaican migrant worker comes home to Canada from his job and tells his partner he has terminal cancer. The documentary follows them as they face his final months together.

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What happens

Don't Come Searching is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Andrew Moir and released in 2022. An expansion of Moir's 2017 short documentary film Babe, I Hate to Go, the film centres on Delroy Dunkley, a migrant worker from Jamaica who returns from his job in Canada to announce his diagnosis with terminal cancer to his longtime partner Sophia. The film premiered at the 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. The film was a nominee for the DGC Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2022 Directors Guild of Canada awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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