Leaving Home Movies

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...

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...

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

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...

One last thing to share down at the river.

About the emotional upheaval of a Palestinian couple's last moments before leaving voluntarily Jerusalem, their native city, to forge a brighter...

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

The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.

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

A girl, her father, and an AI system work to preserve the remnants of plant life in a post-apocalyptic ice age.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

A jobs program for people on the autism spectrum gives Terrence (aka T-Man) the footing to live independently for the first time.