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Scars are best to remain hidden and sings of weakness not shown, nonetheless the body bears and stores the markings life has left on it. What if it were possible to be truly liberated and then vanish into thin air? In the fiction film Things Like a mother frantically tries to uncover if the father had molested their five-year-old daughter. The Croatian documentary Now I Am Irena is about a woman who reenacts the arguments she had with her ex-husband in an attempt to achieve some sort of closure. Sometimes the best remedy when it comes to emotions is to just let it all out. The animated reverie Sommerregen affirms this notion. The mysterious disappearance of a certain Mr. Tom R servers as a perfect excuse for an absurdist celebration of all the departures done supposedly without reason in The Disappearance of Tom R. Mmm… Cat reminds us how getting lost in the embrace of your beloved pet is often all we need to feel that inner peace.