Beautiful Something Left Behind
Director: Katrine Philp
Country: Denmark, USA
Year of production: 2020
Duration: 88 min
Subject:
  • The citizen and the state
  • The right to health care
  • Human rights
Audience:
  • Activists / NGOs
  • Teachers
  • Students
New Jersey’s Good Grief counselling centre offers a holistic approach to mourning. Filmmaker Katrine Philp presents viewers with a child’s perspective of its programmes, offering an affectionate and intimate look at the lives of several children who have recently lost their parents and must navigate their grief by embracing sadness with honesty, bravery, humour, and love. The result is an enlightening film in which the students become our teachers in finding better ways of coping with loss.
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Beautiful Something Left Behind
Director Katrine Philp graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2009 with her award-winning short documentary Book of Miri. She won the Audience Award at the American Documentary Film Festival in 2014 for her debut feature documentary Dance for Me. The film was selected for POV on PBS and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2015. She co-founded the production company Good Company Pictures in 2014. While filming Beautiful Something Left Behind, Philp worked through the grief of losing her own father.
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