Short of the Week
Father and Daughter
From the director of The Red Turtle
Directed by Michael Dudok de Wit · Starring James Laufer · 2000
A father rows away and never returns; across a lifetime, his daughter keeps cycling back to the shore where she last saw him.
An Oscar-winning, wordless masterpiece that compresses a whole life of longing into eight minutes.
A father says goodbye to his young daughter. In time the daughter grows old, but within her there is always a deep longing for her father.
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