
Letting You Go
Sanne is twenty-seven, Dutch, and has spent nearly a decade in treatment for chronic depression, insomnia, and borderline personality disorder before deciding to pursue a legally sanctioned assisted death. The film follows her and her father in the months around that decision, in a country where doctor-assisted suicide for chronic mental illness is legal, along with Belgium and Switzerland, though it remains one of the most contested points in the right-to-die debate elsewhere. Her father is visibly shaken but chooses to stand beside her, reasoning that she could not, and should not, go through this alone. Director Kim Faber shoots the two of them in close, unguarded moments rather than staging debate or expert commentary, letting the relationship carry the film's argument about autonomy and suffering. There is no voiceover moralizing and no resolution offered beyond what the family arrives at together. The camera stays with the ordinary details of a life ending on a schedule: conversations, waiting, the practical business of saying goodbye.