Leaving the Nest

Documentary | 51 min | AT | 2017

In religiously conservative Jacksonville, high school sweethearts and later husband and wife Elizabeth and Tom Taylor live the American dream. But when two of their sons are diagnosed with incurable mental and physical disabilities, the couple falls into a deep depression. During this crisis, Tom, at the age of 50, discovers his long-suppressed homosexuality and leaves his family to start a new life as an artist in New York. But his guilty conscience soon catches up with him.

Credits

With Tom Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Eleanor Ambos, a.o. | Editor: Rudolf Agner, Birgit Bergmann & Axel Stasny | Music: Teresa Rotschopf | Sound Design & Re-recording mixer: Gilsub Choi | Written, directed and cinematography by Axel Stasny

Festivals

Nominated for Austrian Documentary Award (ADA) 2017 Ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival
Official selection 2017 TQFF Toronto Queer Film Festival
Official selection 2017 14th European Film Festival INTEGRATION YOU and ME
Official selection 2017 One with a Movie Camera
Winner at 2017 Austrian Film Festival for Best International Documentary
Official selection 2017 Auroville Film Festival

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