Name: Forgetting Dad
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 6.2

Forgetting Dad

"If your father no longer remembers you, does he stop being your father?"

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A man suffers a minor car accident, and a week later constructs a new identity, claiming he can't "remember" being a father. Nearly twenty years later, his amnesia persists, yet no brain damage or physical cause are ever found. Enthralling and thought-provoking, "Forgetting Dad" offers an award-winning case study of dissociation, parental abandonment, and family enmenshment in mental illness.

Directors

Rick Minnich, Matt Sweetwood

Original Language

German

Keywords

memory loss