Father’s Chair

Father's Chair (A Busca, 2012) is a Brazilian drama you can watch online on iFILM. Theo is a successful São Paulo doctor who has always put his patients ahead of his own family. Wagner Moura plays him with a tight, restless edge.

Then his comfortable world caves in. The older mentor who raised him is dying. His wife asks for a divorce. And one ordinary afternoon he comes home to find his fifteen-year-old son Pedro simply gone. Theo gets in the car and drives, chasing thin leads across half of Brazil to find out where the boy went and why he ran.

The road becomes a reckoning. The farther Theo travels, the clearer it gets how much he missed while staring at his career. Directed by Luciano Moura, this is a quiet film about a man learning, far too late, how to be a father — one for viewers who like understated family drama that lives in the silences. Stream Father's Chair (2012) online on iFILM.