Family

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...

The Tallahassee Unified Family Court (Florida) specialises in judicial cases involving minors. It is the only court in the United States that deals with matters relating to children and parents. The families are summoned to this court when accused of abuse, abandon or negligence in regard to the minors. The objective of this court according to the Law is to reunite families as quickly and safely as possible. The movie takes its inspiration from the words of James Baldwin: “If one really wants...

Everybody has a mother. But motherhood still remains a state filled with silences. Between society’s mandate to be a ‘good mother’ -always patient, caring, happy and the reality of mothers around the world. Aiming to break this silence through candid interviews with mothers of all backgrounds and generations in Latin America, MALAMADRE narrates the untold story of motherhood, from the mother’s point of...

FABULOUS is the story of a daughter arriving to her parents' house in her hometown, trying to escape from the anxious "bug" that stalks her. When she arrives, she is forced to face the biggest mirror in her life: her father. Daughter and father have a lot of pain inside them. They desperately and intimately seek for this feeling to disappear, at least for a little while. For that to take place, they rely on any type of anesthetic that helps them disconnect and embrace a temporary pleasure....

Aleixo Paz A.K.A. "Boy from the Blaze" is the survivor of a tragic accident that destroyed his life and that of his family. About to turn 18, without a job or an education, he spends his days in the darkness of his room. Consumed by pain and anger, his only hope is writing songs for an imaginary crowd. Inspired by a friend and encouraged by his mother, he will find the strength to go on stage and overcome his...

Tolya called his father all of a sudden, on Wednesday, and said that they need to meet. Why today? So many years have passed after they parted because of a big...

Hearing that her teenage sister is planning to commit suicide, Toranj is in limbo not knowing how to...

Little Luci runs into the woods looking for her cousin Salva. The forest will then guide and protect her from the imminent confrontation between Civil Guards and...

In 1998, Zoilamerica accused her adoptive father of rape and sexual abuse. Almost 20 years later, she lives in exile while caring for her 10-year-old son. Her adoptive father is Daniel Ortega, leader of the Sandinista revolution and current president of...

Pedro decides to maintain his daily routine, in spite of some adversities which are causing him some instability. These new events will force him to venture towards anuncertain...

Claudia returns to the old family house where she used to spend the summers. Once there, she is haunted by ghosts of her past, seeing no other option but to face the truth from which she has been running all her...

Celina and Alejo have gone through a rough patch for a while, almost as long as they have had their son Camilo, who is 4 years old. Alejo’s mother gives them a voucher for a hotel night and offers to look after the kid for the night. The proposal feels weird to them, but they do their best to live the experience enthusiastically. Cecilia uses her best perfume and Alejo wears skinny pants, which will cause some trouble. Finally the night does not turn out to be what they...

Middle aged sisters Carmen and Julia endure their last days with their father, who is terminally...

From the memory of the performers and artists Fernando Fernán Gómez and Emma Cohen, this short documentary poetically explores the relationships the living maintain with those no longer...

On Easter Sunday, Plínio, a retired carpenter, waits for his family's visit, but they don't show up. Anselmo, the gardener of the home he lives in, offers him a lift home. Plinio revisits along the way his memories of the neighborhood where he was born and raised, but when he gets there, a surprise puts his memories in...

Quique, an artist from Cadiz Carnival, has a huge life-twist the day he begins to work in Spain´s biggest impounded drug deposit. Due to El Tuti, a local dealer and Quique´s big fan, who is planning to steal this entire drug before the deposit’s opening and the burning of every piece of drug it has. But in order to get it, Quique must be part of the...

Wounded by the death of her mother, Yasmine, an introverted teenager, takes refuge in silence and depression. Her aunt, who suddenly takes on the role of the new mother for her and her little sister Sonia, can’t channel her...

The story of Ara Malikian, multifaceted violinist of Lebanese origin and Armenian roots. The film portrays his professional trajectory and personal story. Music saved his life when he escaped the war. He left Beirut when he was only 14 and ever since then, has lived a nomadic life, bringing his music to all the...

With only a 5th grade education, Jabulile Ndaba, a tall black woman with a contagious sense of humor, never thought of herself as a manager. Now she is a leader-in-training at a women’s project near Johannesburg. The project, Kopanang, enables women to earn money through embroidery -- and enables Jabulile to learn management skills. Jabulile is the sole provider for her large family. Her husband drinks away his earnings at the local bar. When Jabulile discovers that their teenage son has...

The story of people from a little Polish village called Stare Juchy (in Polish: Old Blood). The village is located in Masuria, area often referred as ‘’The Land of Thousand Lakes’’. Around 400 people from this village have emigrated to Iceland since the 80’s and nobody has returned. Those who stayed behind - most of them from the older generation - are hoping for the reunion. But by now their children and grandchildren are settling into new lives on the other side of Europe. The...

At the gates of the peace in Colombia, the young Camila, a FARC`s member, face to a painful memory of her childhood, the day in which her father tried to rape her, in an internal struggle from where she will come out...

Petitet is a former percussionist and Barcelona gypsy whose father was one of the first back-up musicians for the legendary Peret. In a promise to his dying mother, Petitet said he would take her to see Catalan rumba played on the stage of the Liceu, Barcelona's grand opera house. Now, if he's to keep that promise, Petitet will have to bring together over twenty - excellent, but undisciplined - gypsy musicians and pull off the miracle of them playing together with… a symphony...

Dogs bark around the neighborhood while David drives his sister Angela to her training. Despite being blood brothers, they don't have a lot in common. However, when the night comes, the pack protects each other above everything...

In a cramped apartment in Mumbai, a family considers eating their hell-raising pet rooster, so that they can reclaim their...

A bohemian singer/artist becomes a father to his five-year-old niece when his sister's mental health deteriorates, and finds himself awkwardly balancing fairy tales and playtime with his rowdy nightlife and provocative...

David just moved into his new apartment when he receives an unexpected visit from two neighbours. What at first seems like a mere courtesy call soon reveals itself to be something more...

Fofo, a humble and honest retired worker, picks up strangers with his van to take them to the polling...

The young couple Denize and Filip have it all prepared: the crib, the pram, the tiny clothes, even the car seat is ready for the baby they're expecting any day. But at a routine check up close to expected delivery date, the midwife's face suddenly freezes. There's no heart beat to be heard. Little Inez has died in the womb. After Inez is a film about how to survive grief. It explores individual differences in mourning, as well as gender patterns and taboos in our society. And finally, it leaves...

Sometimes the maid of honor not only takes care of the flower´s color in the...

A grandfather and his granddaughter spend a pleasant afternoon...

Carla gets a call from her sister: her father, to whom she hasn’t spoken for some time, is ill. That same day, Carla takes a flight to Almeria, her home town. There, the doctors give her father a few months of life. She refuses to accept this and, against everyone’s opinion, decides to take him to Barcelona for treatment. The two of them set out on a journey to escape a reality that neither dares to face. And it will be on that escape that they end up finding themselves and can say finally...

Few days before Epiphany, Antonio and Carmen read the letter that their son has written to the three Wise Men. A very special gift on the list of the child will test the convictions and love of the...

Francesca celebrates years and wants to carry out her true desire. That will lead her to raise a premeditated revenge on the incest of her father for that uses as an accomplice the whole...

Based on an experience of the director, “Silence please” tells the story of two brothers Dani is a young neighborhood guy from a humble house. He works in a warehouse and wishes things were easier for him and his family. He lives with his mother and brother, Javier, who suffers from cerebral palsy. Javier is working on an intership on the neighbrhood library, but a little incident disrupts the family...

Indira, a Cuban actress, succeeded to flee to USA but her emigration inflicted consequences on her family. In Santa Clara (Cuba) she left 11-years-old son Leandro and other members of her numerous family. Settled now in New Jersey, Indira struggles to adapt to cold weather, different mentality and to a completely new social system. Her "American Dream" turns to be an "American Nightmare", while her son Leandro is waiting in Santa Clara for her to settle so he can come and live with her in...