Leaving Home Movies

When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon...

Runaway is an animated short film about a misunderstanding between a man named Stanley and his treasured 1950s refrigerator, named Chillie.

The stories of four Iranian families who emigrate to Canada and the city they leave behind. As departure time approaches, social spaces become places...

After receiving a notification from her college, Anita confronts her mom the day before she moves out of the country

A man returns to a hacienda, lost in time and history, where, as a child or teenager, in his budding career as a writer, he left a typewriter stored...

During a road trip to the airport, Fade questions whether her niece’s departure from Nigeria is truly for the best.

Wajdi and Maia are spending their last days together before Wajdi travels to a new start away from the Lebanese situation.

A young woman is forced to leave her apartment for reasons beyond her control. As she evacuates on her last day there, she analyzes the emotional...

During the summer before college, two best friends are stressed about the fate of their friendship as they search for a mysterious street artist...

Two teenage boys escape an unhappy home, embarking on a perilous journey of self-discovery that takes them deep into the Newfoundland wilderness.

One last thing to share down at the river.

Late 40’s after the war. Strange languaged and religioned immigrants fleeing from Karelia region are hated by Finns in the countryside. 19-year...

Dodd, a freshly signed baseball player struggling to say goodbye to his hometown, spends his final night trying to reconnect with an old lover.

Two childhood friends make an attempt to leave home after an unfortunate coming out the closet.

A young polar bear leaves home for the first time, but finds it difficult to bid her mother farewell.

Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his...

Sabine and Natacha are 22. They live ‘here’, in the sticks, next door to each other. One day, Natacha has an opportunity: leave...

The Odyssey of director Radomir Belacevic who leaves his native village on his faithful horse named Knight and sets out to the capital trying to put...