Family

When the prison gates open after two years, kind-hearted Dalibor (23) is greeted by his damaged family. The only one missing is his younger brother Kevin (12), who lives with their abusive alcoholic father. Dalibor confronts his father and helps his mom with the fight for Kevin’s custody to spare him from further abuse. Caught up in a vicious circle of pain, Dalibor finds refuge in a shabby wandering circus. There, he learns to heal his scars by becoming a...

On a summer day, Deniz returns to her hometown to attend her widowed mother’s wedding. The anger, fear, and guilt she thought she’d left behind resurface during this visit. Still haunted by the tragedy of losing her father in an accident at sea, Deniz learns that her mother will leave her the family house requiring her to confront her...

Marina, a young actress from Andalusia, discovers that her grandmother's Alzheimer's is already very advanced during a visit to her Catalan family. The situation worsens when she sees how lightly her mother and the rest of the family take the disease. Between the post-lunch coffee and Grandma's return to the residence, Marina will have to decide what role she plays within her estranged family and how close she wants her relationship with her mother to...

Spain is made up of people who are very different in their origins, history, dialects, way of life, work, cultural and gastronomic tastes, even in their character, ideas and values. In these differences, there is something that unites and brings us all together: the passion for the...

Ana travels for a few days to her grandmother’s house in the country. Her mother is also present, but the relationship is visible awkward as she feels she was neglected. Ana’s secret abortion due to an unplanned pregnancy moves her prospect of becoming a mother and makes her understand her own mother’s life, on his weekend to heal from burdens and secrets carried for...

Malena, a survivor of domestic violence, fled to Mexico City to rebuild her life after losing custody of her children despite her fierce fight. Now with a new partner, she aspires to create the family she always dreamt of, despite challenges such as IVF treatment, societal judgment, and the resentment from her teenage children who feel abandoned. While patriarchal norms may seem daunting, her determination for a brighter future is stronger than...

Seven women, three generations, one family and countless secrets and lies. Meet Canada’s Gayest...

Sushi is the story of Betu and Jaume, two men from different generations, who have yet to understand what parenthood means to...

When a war suddenly breaks out, a 14-year-old boy finds himself faced with a decision that could save his family, with no time to think, he embarks on a treacherous 250 kilometer journey to...

Marcia wakes up one day with the unnerving feeling that her husband has disappeared. She decides to take matters into her own hands to find out his whereabouts. At the same time, Marcia tries to pretend everything is under control for the sake of her 8-year-old...

After 30 years taking anxiolytics for depression, Mari Carmen begins to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Her husband and daughter will have to learn to live with the disease that will lead them to create a new relationship between...

Eugenie is at her grandmother’s wake. She grieves, but also wonders if there is a way for her to see grandmother again. It takes her on a quest into the pine grove and Grandma's house where memories of their time together are still alive. While the memories fade, Eugenie realizes that Grandma will always be with her, but in a different...

After fifteen years without setting foot in Argentina, Rodrigo travels from Madrid to Buenos Aires in order to attend his father’s funeral, a well-known painter. Experiencing mourning with his family and managing more than two thousand artworks left in an old studio triggers a reunion that leads him to reconsider his future...

From her empty nest in Santo Domingo, Dominique is waiting for her first grandchild to be born abroad, and she eagerly expects a baby girl. When Carmen, her live-in maid, vanishes without a warning and leaves behind her 7-year-old granddaughter, Dominique takes the girl in. As she deals with pushback from her family, Dominique finds herself challenging her own...

Tito wants to prove his worth and join the neighborhood gang. One morning of re-engagement, his new “friends” turn the party into a macabre joke in which they force him to commit a robbery as part of their initiation...

A father desperately searches for his daughter Joe, missing from the building where he works. His loss will reveal a terrible...

Balika tells the story of Dipendra and Sushmita, two teenagers living in an orphanage in Kathmandu. The protagonists, like all his friends, were abandoned by their...

With archive material, the director starts from her family history (famous chefs who marked the Spanish culinary tradition) to elaborate an alternative story about the history of cooking and the anonymity of...

Three women of different generations live with an eating disorder. Three dark and hopeful realities marked by a childhood trauma that they will try to face in order to come back to...

It is spring and grandma Margara teaches her four grandchildren how to plant in little flowerpots. Three of them decide to fly away from the family patio they live in and go out to discover the world. Years pass, grandma gets older and those who left are present, in their own way... but never like the ones that stayed. Distance might not bringa return and people can come back or no. But spring, yes, spring will always comes...

The short documentary film Becoming LEV tells the inspiring story of Valerii, a young boy from Kharkiv, Ukraine. Valerii has one dream; to become a professional football player just like Evgeniy Levchenko (LEV). It takes dedication, passion and family to reach this goal. Valerii had a rough start in life but thanks to his supporting foster family he is able to dream again. The production of Becoming LEV was made possible through a unique collaboration between many organizations and individuals...

Belga and Salvador, a Cuban mother and a Dutch father and filmmaker, undertake the impossible by trying to explain their 2-year-old son Luca the absurd story of his uncle Ezequiel in Cuba, who has been sentenced by the revolutionary court to six years in jail for selling his own cow. Their journey leads them to the remote village of Sibanicú in the heart of the island Cuba. There we see how Ezequiel's criminal case and the intimate story of Belga and her family turn out to be a result of the...

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the dynamics of communication,transportation, work and interaction of societies in Mexico and the world, but for the patients hospitalized by the virus, all possibilities of contact with their own were...

A bittersweet family dynamic and a strong sense all resilience mix into this thoughtful portrait of the most famous pastry shop in...

Ashley Solis is a high school senior who must divide her time between school and supporting her family as a second-generation Mexican American. Located in a California working class town, the harshness of agricultural labor in the strawberry fields shares a stark contrast with the beautiful nature and relationship to her spiritual ancestral upbringing. This film documents Ashley’s life guided by the spirit world through her hardships and joys in modern...

A forced disappearance doesn't only end with the life of the person who has disappeared, but generates, like the ripples of a stone thrown into water, an enormous emotional scar in their families and in society. In the early 1980s, José Miguel Etxeberria Álvarez, alias Naparra, a member of the Autonomous Anti-capitalist Commandos, was disappeared. Between crossed statements, numerous vindications and judicial indifference, his family will try to find an answer for his disappearance. More than...

Pedro, an unemployed architect travels to Cantabria to sell the animals inherited by his grandfather. Among valleys, mountains, cows and donkeys Pedro will have find an unexpected paradise, a new meaning in his life, a bond with his late grandfather, and Paula, a Mexican student who steals his...

Khalil, an elementary school teacher in Berlin, gets hold of images of war from his Kurdish hometown of Cizre. The footage eventually leads him to join a network of video activists fighting for more attention in the media. In helping them, he hopes to reconnect with his long-lost sister, who is working as a camera operator in the combat zone. With his actions becoming increasingly influenced by the distant conflict, Khalil is forced to question not only his values but also his entire life in...

The film is a story about love and friendship, class distinction and our times. The main character of the film, the author Frej, is both lover and friend, eyewitness and foe – all rolled into one. In the upper class girl Stella Rabell, Frej finds a true soulmate, and their relationship lasts for decades, even if they won’t live together or make love. The story moves intensely from love to jealousy, from life to death. This is a film about how memory works: stormy love, family ties and...

Three women meet every Thursday for a morning walk before going to work. It is the occasion to tell each other what worries and happens to them. Despite their differences and disagreements, there is something that unites these protagonists: the age and the burden they feel knowing they are halfway through their lifes. They are united by the sad sensation, that the passing of the years has displaced them in a space where they feel out of place and almost...

Last time Manuel saw his family he came out, and since then their relationship became tense. Manuel goes back to his hometown for his parent’s wedding anniversary, but he actually wants to ask money to move to Denmark with his boyfriend, who ends up dumping him, leading to an existential crisis. This trip then becomes an opportunity to rebond with his parents, discover a secret everyone’s hiding from his brother, and find out what he wants for his...

A camel, on a quest to find his missing wife in the desert, faces the dilemma of chasing his treasure or continuing his journey. It’s the story of how someone recognizes the most important thing in life amid chaos caused by...

On Christmas Eve, a peasant family embarks into a surprising revelation about the absence of a dear loved one and the unsettling presence of spooks in the...

The world of Lili, an introverted 11 years old girl, has been falling apart due to the disappearance of her...

After finding out that his father was admitted into hospital and refuses medical treatment in Indonesia, Budi has to convince his father to take the treatment while trying to clean up his Airbnb-apartment after a wild party in The...

Muete, a deserter from an armed group, visits his cousin Karina, a transgender sex worker with whom he shares a past, in town. He wants to convince her to return to town because her mother is very ill. The only condition is that she goes with her former...

Finita (84 years old) talks every night to her German boyfriend, Manfred. She lives in Torrevieja, and he lives in Eppenheim. One night, Finita tells Manfred that she has discovered some old super 8 tapes in her house. That's how she decides it's time to go back to the past. She will challenge her grandson, and director´s film, to reincarnate the...

Siblings Amaia and Aitor are close to turning fifty, do not have children, and since they were young they have lived away from their parents, Kontxi and Iñaki, who are now retired. One summer the four of them get together and go on a cruise called FANTASÍA. On the high seas time seems to stand still. But beyond the horizon, reality forges ahead...

In the drought-stricken town of Agua Dulce, in the California High Desert, a ten year old girl challenges her grandfather, a cranky retired firefighter, to follow a crazy plan and bring water back to the dry...

Clara and Luis have an argument. It's not the first and it's always over the same issue. Clara's job interferes with Luis' desire to have a...