The Disappearance of Jay Slater

Sep 28, 2025

0h 59m

★ 6.5

Overview

A look at the evolution of the criminal enquiry over the last 12 months. Within hours of Jay Slater's disappearance in 2024, intense online interest set conspiracy theories flying. This film has exclusive access to the Slaters as they search for answers around Jay's death.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Candour Productions

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Cast

Self

Debbie Duncan

Self

Warren Slater

Self

Zak Slater

March 27, 1977. At 2:00 in the afternoon, a thick fog rolled into the usually quiet Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. On the runway sat two fully loaded jumbo airliners. An explosion at a nearby airport had redirected air traffic to the undermanned airfield at Tenerife. Within three hours 583 people would be dead. This film reconstructs the moments leading up to the tragedy.

0.0

Propositum

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7.0

EXT.

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7.5

Escala en Tenerife

Jul 15, 1964

No overview available.

5.0

Picturesque New Zealand

Jan 26, 1952

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7.8

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10.0

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5.0

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6.2

Spring in Carpathian Ruthenia

Jan 1, 1929

Karel Plicka was also cinematographer of this short movie. Editor in charge was Alexander Hackenschmied. There is an extraordinary emotional charge, every shot is working on its own, such as photographs, paintings and poetic complement intertitles in this short. From the perspective of nature and the perspective is shifting to the people and their habits, work and clothes. Peculiar documentary shots underscore Ruthenians (men, women and children) who are interested in looking into the camera and the curious "eye" showing off their habits.

5.2

Antigravitation

Jan 1, 1995

An isolated village in the Lithuanian countryside. Seated in her house, an elderly woman recites an old folk story. Then she climbs up the tall ladder that takes her to the rooftop of the church.

5.2

Lord of the Flies

Jan 1, 1991

An old man bases his livelihood on a very bizarre form of recyling, breeding maggots in his yard, which he uses to feed his animals. This model of self-subsistence serves as his vision of a perfect state. Experimental documentary made during the collapse of the Soviet Union.

6.5

Glimpses of Morocco and Algiers

Aug 4, 1951

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0.0

TNA Best of the Bloodiest Brawls

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6.3

Larisa

Oct 1, 1980

Elem Klimov's tribute to his late wife, director Larisa Shepitko, killed in a car accident a year earlier. Features excerpts from all of her films, and archival audio of her discussing life and art.

7.0

Chitrakathi

Jan 1, 1977

Chitrakathi is about the folk artists of western India who narrate with the help of leather puppets. Mani takes us to the sleepy Konkan coastal village and introduces us to the family that has preserved this unique art for several centuries.

0.0

HaMidbar

Jul 14, 2023

Often regarded as empty and desolate, the Israeli deserts are anything but. These deserts have shaped some of the toughest creatures on the planet --- with some incredible stories of survival. Her debut film, the Director took a profound journey into the Israeli deserts to bring us HaMidbar - 'the wilderness'.

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My

Jun 11, 2015

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