A short film about the grieving process starring Paul McGann.

Doctors are baffled when an expectant mother wakes to find her nearly-to-term pregnancy apparently disappear overnight. Police investigate the situation as a missing child, and only her husband and brother trust her version of events.

A man returns home and in the process uncovers memories previously hidden away.

Is it possible to talk about death in war time? This question is exposed through four people who lost friends and relatives in four different Lebanese regions.

"Absence" is the story of personal loss and tragedy that befalls three very different people in the setting of a small, New York suburb. Told from three points of view, it unfolds in three vignettes which tie a larger storyline together.

In slow dissolves, loops of images of enacted absence are projected in white light. Most of the images come from the black-and-white film series The Invisible Man, dating from the 1930s to '60s. The presence of an invisible actor seems to influence minimal cinematic events on theatrical sets. These events combine to become an enigma regarding the phenomenon of disappearance.

A video diptych by Ali Kazma.

Andrew's mother disappears without a trace, leaving the differently-abled young man in his grandmother's care. Discovery of her sister's departure prompts an estranged aunt to rush back to the family home in an effort to institute order.

"This film is about 'nothing.' Hints of dramatic 'loss' are imaged throughout, but the primary effect of the film is to give, through fleeting and ephemeral visions, a sense of something which almost exists but unhappily doesn't." - Marilyn Jull

Bored of her relationship, Lisa decides to leave her girlfriend in order to give herself to Henry, her best friend whom she secretly loves. But was this the right decision to make?

A young poet, lost in his work, faces his own creation.

Have we found water on Mars?

Alone in the center of a barren square, an old man collapses. Passers-by who gravitate around avoid it, ignore it or come to its aid. The sudden interest of journalists in this man will lead us into a grotesque and absurd media vortex questioning our relationship to society and the media. From benevolent help to TV shows, our winter hero becomes the number one subject of our society. It becomes an experience of the absence.

After a family patriarch's passing, mother and son set off on different paths to cope with the loss. While the mother finds solace in religion and prayers, the son expresses himself through art. Unbeknownst to them, they are set on a collision course with one another, with life-altering consequences.

Absence is a subtle and fragmented narrative about desire and expectation leaving the viewer to search for explanations, completion, and closure.

Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times.

After ten years, Jacques comes back to France to handle his father’s succession. He had left France to live in the USA to escape a painful past he shared with Mado, his former wife, who in the meantime built a new life with Stéphane and their 7 year old son, Paul. Upon his return, Jacques and Mado meet again; he asks to meet her son Paul; Mado hesitates, then accepts but hides it from her husband. Soon, Paul and Jacques get close and they start to see each other secretly.

The life of Juan José Gorasurreta is pierced by images. In his new feature film, the historic film society programmer appropriates the films that made him in order to find new relationships and patterns and thus generate a convergence between his personal life, that of Argentina and that of cinema. In The Absences his travels coexist with Orson Welles, activism, Fernando Birrri, the Cordobazo, his studies, Eva Landeck, family, Carlos Echeverría, the Trelew Massacre, Nagisa Ōshima, censorship, film societies, the Malvinas war, his short films. The randomness of this list vanishes as the film progresses, and gives way to a synapse that is as logical as it is moving. “It is a portrait on how Argentine history and my encounter with films designed my sensitive areas” —as he did with his own story, no one could define The Absences better than Gorasurreta himself.

François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.

Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.