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Dependence

Grace Harper Brighouse

A filmmaker sifts through decades of home movies to understand her father, in this intimate study of what it means to love an addict.
Runtime
94 min
Country
UK
Language
English
Year
2026
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Even as a child, Grace Harper Brighouse was always filming her family. Now faced with her father’s death, Grace returns to this personal archive to piece together an unflinching account of his struggle with addiction to opioids and the impact it had on them. Dependence is a bold excavation of the things we hide to protect the ones we love.

Chloé Trayner

Content warning

Contains scenes and themes of drug use.