After a death of a loved one, grownups are often unsure about how to help young children. Death is a difficult concept for adults to process, and most feel helpless in the presence of a grieving child. For children, there is an added dimension. Their capacity to make send of the loss is filtered through the lens of their developmental state. After some discussion of infants and toddlers, our young experts, ages 4-12, explain with patience and wisdom,...

After his Israeli lover dies in a car crash, a German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem seeking answers and begins to work for his lover's widow in her café while keeping his past a secret.

For Australian documentary filmmaker John Darling, the tragic events of 12 October 2002 compelled him to re-establish his links with Bali that spanned some 30 years. John had lived, researched and made films in Bali for 17 years from the 1970s to the 1990s, and The healing of Bali is his observation of the Balinese response to the bombings and the aftermath. His film presents an intimate insight into traditional and modern Balinese methods of grieving...

Set in contemporary London, LILTING features intensely moving performances by Asian cinema’s martial arts legend Cheng Pei Pei (*Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*) as Junn, a Cambodian-Chinese mother grieving the untimely death of her only son Kai (Andrew Leung), and Ben Whishaw (*I’m Not There, Bright Star*) as her son’s lover, Richard. Graceful, moving and humorous, LILTING is a gem of a chamber piece about unlikely connections and how loss...

Through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African American funerals are brought to life. Filmed at the Owens Funeral Home in Harlem and the rural South, director Christine Turner's Homegoings takes an up-close look at the rarely seen world of undertaking in the black community, where funeral rites draw on a rich palette of tradition, history and celebration. It reveals the special status of undertakers in the community;...

The divergent paths of three adult siblings collide when their mother, heiress to an exceptional 19th century art collection, dies suddenly. The three siblings must sift through the past and decide what to do with the country home and items she has left for them.