LOGLINE:
Life is fragile, love is forever.
Life is fragile, love is forever.
SYNOPSIS:
A recluse, haunted by a past tragedy, receives an unexpected call from a long-lost lover who is now terminally ill. Reluctantly returning to his hometown, he must confront old wounds and buried truths as they face the painful realities of their past—while discovering if reconciliation and closure are possible before it’s too late.
A recluse, haunted by a past tragedy, receives an unexpected call from a long-lost lover who is now terminally ill. Reluctantly returning to his hometown, he must confront old wounds and buried truths as they face the painful realities of their past—while discovering if reconciliation and closure are possible before it’s too late.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT:
DISCERNMENT is a story about the silences we keep, the wounds we refuse to touch, and the fragile grace of human connection when time is running out.
As a filmmaker, I’ve always been drawn to characters who live at the edges—people who have stepped away from the world not because they stopped caring, but because they care too deeply. The reclusive writer at the heart of this film embodies that paradox. His exile is a form of self-preservation, yet it comes at the cost of truth, and peace.
When I first envisioned this story, I wasn’t thinking about grand reconciliations or sweeping romantic gestures. I was thinking about two people in a quiet room, decades of history pressing down between them, and the question: Does time heal all wounds?
The film unfolds in a muted emotional landscape, where memory and present reality blur. I wanted to explore the ways grief shapes us—not just in the moment of loss, but in the long, unspoken years afterward. Through deliberate pacing, DISCERNMENT invites the audience to lean in, to listen between the lines, and to feel the weight of what’s left unsaid.
Ultimately, this film is about the courage it takes to face our pain, the different ways we each grieve, and how, for some, the path to healing requires going farther than they ever imagined to truly find themselves.
- RYAN LA VIA
DISCERNMENT is a story about the silences we keep, the wounds we refuse to touch, and the fragile grace of human connection when time is running out.
As a filmmaker, I’ve always been drawn to characters who live at the edges—people who have stepped away from the world not because they stopped caring, but because they care too deeply. The reclusive writer at the heart of this film embodies that paradox. His exile is a form of self-preservation, yet it comes at the cost of truth, and peace.
When I first envisioned this story, I wasn’t thinking about grand reconciliations or sweeping romantic gestures. I was thinking about two people in a quiet room, decades of history pressing down between them, and the question: Does time heal all wounds?
The film unfolds in a muted emotional landscape, where memory and present reality blur. I wanted to explore the ways grief shapes us—not just in the moment of loss, but in the long, unspoken years afterward. Through deliberate pacing, DISCERNMENT invites the audience to lean in, to listen between the lines, and to feel the weight of what’s left unsaid.
Ultimately, this film is about the courage it takes to face our pain, the different ways we each grieve, and how, for some, the path to healing requires going farther than they ever imagined to truly find themselves.
- RYAN LA VIA
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