With all of the buzz surrounding the Sundance Film Festival last month and with the Berlin International Film Festival poised to begin later this month, it’s easy to miss some of the smaller films released on the regular schedule. While January failed to offer many must-see titles, February looks to offer more with films such as likely Oscar nominee “The Worst Person in the World” sharing release dates with the anticipated return of Johnny Knoxville and the gang in “Jackass Forever.” Later in the month will see another attempt to adapt a video game into a series building film, Channing Tatum’s directing debut, and the return of indie favorite Josephine Decker.

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For a parent, losing a child is the worst nightmare imaginable. It’s the kind of tragedy that can leave a wound so deep it never fully heals. But for Andrea Riseborough’s character in the upcoming “Here Before,” that’s only the beginning.

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The debut feature from writer/director Stacey Gregg follows a grief-stricken mother who becomes convinced (and not without reason) that her neighbor’s daughter is the reincarnation of her late child.

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It’s already becoming a bit of cliché to say that a film (or book, or show, or album) is Actually About Grief and Trauma, and I’d imagine this will only get worse in the months and even years to come. But Stacey Gregg’s dramatic thriller “Here Before,” which is about a woman who comes to believe that the new neighbors’ daughter is the reincarnation of her own lost young one, is actually about grief and trauma, and handles those topics with delicacy and grace.

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