Indeed, very touching.

Great work and storytelling.

I can't help to comment this is so touching. It is so well done for short three minutes documentary film from the beginning to the powerful ending. More please!

that, in all honesty, is the best 3 minutes ive had watching anything.

Extremely moving

What a wonderful short documentary. It really hit the spot. So much emotion in so little time. Quality work.

This is such a beautiful and sad story. I didn't know it was possible to feel such strong emotions in only 3 min.

I absolutely loved this video. More please!!!

Very powerful for 3 minutes. Love it.

Exquisite, Ross.
xxx

Amazing 3 minute Edition, this is really a nice tribute to their friends and family,

very nice work,.

it's truly something magnificent when a film can distort time and space. great job

In Holland we have a very popular TV program called "Spoorloos" ("withouth a trace"), most times they get lucky in finding people, I will link them this very impressive statement!

This is beautiful

beautiful work my friend :)

Really beautiful!

These images are beautiful! What settings do you use to encode like this ? It seems as though I cannot get these results with my encoding, If you could let me know that would be amazing! Thank you

This is the same kind of sadness I get from Into the Wild. Great job.

Excellent work. Your edit pacing is spot on. The cuts are perfect. And you photography is amazing, love the swooping shot over the letters. A touching story, can't even imagine her pain.

How sad :( Actually, the poem she is reading is originally in Russian and also, they have a tv-program on the official Russian tv that is called "Wait for me".. It is about searching for relatives and friends... kind of a program that even men cry while watching, because it tells true stories about people that lost each other

Awesome job especially with mother's day coming. Hit home to realize how important loving our family is.

This film is gripping. I found a translation of the Russian poem and it is so moving:

Wait for me, and I'll come back!
Wait with all you've got!
Wait, when dreary yellow rains
Tell you, you should not.
Wait when snow is falling fast,
Wait when summer's hot,
Wait when yesterdays are past,
Others are forgot.
Wait, when from that far-off place,
Letters don't arrive.
Wait, when those with whom you wait
Doubt if I'm alive.

Wait for me, and I'll come back!
Wait in patience yet
When they tell you off by heart
That you should forget.
Even when my dearest ones
Say that I am lost,
Even when my friends give up,
Sit and count the cost,
Drink a glass of bitter wine
To the fallen friend -
Wait! And do not drink with them!
Wait until the end!

Wait for me and I'll come back,
Dodging every fate!
"What a bit of luck!" they'll say,
Those that would not wait.
They will never understand
How amidst the strife,
By your waiting for me, dear,
You had saved my life.
Only you and I will know
How you got me through.
Simply - you knew how to wait -
No one else but you.

From:
moscow-driver.com/photo211.html

"In the February 1942.. "Pravda" (popular newspaper in USSR) published a lyric which immediately won the heart of our troops. It was "Wait for me". Soldiers cut it out of the paper, copied it out as they sat in the trenches, learned it by heart and sent it back in letters to wives and girlfriends; it was found in the breast pockets of the killed and wounded. In the history of Russia poetry if would be hard to find a poem which had such an impact on the people as "Wait for me". It made the soviet officer and Russian poet Konstantin Simonov, who wrote this poem to to Valentina Serova, - famous throughout the world."

beautiful and inspiring ;)

This is the single best piece of work on Vimeo!

Movies like this one make worth every second of stay tuned on VIMEO

oof, powerful stuff and really well done!

I could have guessed a soldiers poem. A lifes tour has an ending too....

Man, tearing up at work here...

Heartbreaking but amazing clip, thank you.
As I watching it, I had the same feeling as I had watching "Into the wild"

This is a fantastic movie. GREAT WORK.

Great movie, sad history, but great mom's mind

Having lost a young adult son, this work captures the sense of loss in a mother's heart with crystal clarity. It is done properly without unnecessary artificial drama or poignance: her words, her face are windows into her soul.

I understood. I understood completely.

This is amazing story! Very well done!

"but if you could only understand my measure of success is different."

this is amazing.

man great job..what camera did you use?

Amazingly touching, this video made me sign up to Vimeo, so I can say - beautifully done. Bravo.

I am amazed at the concise editing that brought me to tears in three minutes. Well done.

You deserve another Academy Award for this.

Amazing! Beautifully shot with a very succinct, heart-wrenching narrative. Absolutely spectacular!

I watched this video so many times now. I just love it.
So moving.

powerful

It's awesome. Looking forward to seeing more!

This was very touching and actually made me tear up here at work. As a father of two young children (both under 3) I couldn't ever possibbly imagine loosing one of my children, especially in those circumstances like a missing child.

Gripping work.

Born Into Brothels is compelling and disturbing. This looks like it's going to be just as "good".

Very touching and beautifully done!

fantastic
really i loved it

i hope she finds him one day

I loved it. Very touching. (was a múm song used?)

The music is Efterklang "Bright."

A superbly crafted, matter-of-fact understatement. Thanks, Ross.

touching

Love it. Straight to the point, and it works very well!

amazing.... i really have no words to describe the beauty and the meaning of this wonderful film, in 3 minutes it takes you so far away... amazing ... congratulations

Beautiful.

The most powerful three minutes I have seen in a long time. This film is beautiful and heartbreaking

This gives a whole new meaning to "waiting" for your child. I don't think I will ever complain again.

I never felt touched as much as by those 3 minutes. thank for this and hopefully waiting ends with a warm "welcome back".

This is absolutely a wonderful production. The story is very touching, the close-ups really draw you into the story. Perfect mix of interview and b-roll. Even the type was beautiful.

i got toyched really deep by this video i think u can feel the pain of this woman just looking into her eyes, it should be debastating to lost your child or son and just have a letter that he wroted... it shoking how this woman can stand and she still hope for anything... really good video i apreciated however post this video

sad/inspiring/beautiful/true.. so much emotion in 3 minutes.

I think this is the most powerful thing I have seen on Vimeo . It has been said in the above comments 100 times already, but, the story you tell in such a short about of time is absolutely extraordinary.

that was incredible. touching, sad, real. not just anyone can make a documentary with such feeling and emotion in 3 minutes. wow.

wow. i'm hooked. and that last image of her hand turning over with the photograph was astoundingly beautiful.

Hey, I'm blown away by this. I'm going to be filming a interview soon about the oldest vet in my area. I was wondering which camera you used for this?

can i "like" this more than once?

If I could like this a bajillion times I would! Beautiful.