Three women are forced to spend Christmas together, along with their children and grandchildren, after the man they were all once married to drops dead in a New York City department store.
Filmen 'The Iron Claw' er et rørende drama om de uadskillelige Von Erich-brødre, der revolutionerede amerikansk wrestling i 1980erne. Brødrene Kevin, Mike og David er alle succesfulde wrestlere grundet deres far Jakes intense træning af sine børn. En disciplin der har givet familien et stærkt bånd. Men under overfladen og langt væk fra wrestling-ringen lurer både uforløste drømme, utilstrækkelighed og stor smerte. Familien Von Erich er med tiden blevet kaldt for wrestling-verdens svar på Kennedy-familien pga. de mange bemærkelsesværdige succeser og hjerteskærende tragedier.
A young, adopted daughter suffers from the remoteness of country life and yearns for the American dream. On the day of her making decision to go, the foster grandma leads her to seek the true love from the home. She finally realized a warmth from the noisy home and feels trilled to stay.
En komedie om en helt almindelig mand, der pludselig opnår kendisstatus, efter at han begynder at dukke op i alles drømme.
Three families struggle to find their true selves and their soulmates in a world full of expectations, pressure and obstacles. Inspired by real events, this film shows how they pursue their dreams and potential without losing themselves.
En jule-gyser-komedie, der udspiller sig i en norsk landsby, hvor en typisk amerikansk familie har arvet et lille landsted. Hvad familien ikke er klar over, er at landstedet også er hjem for en anden beboer: nissen, som bor i familiens nye lade. Byens lokale advarer familien: En nisse skal behandles ordentligt, ellers får man en arrig og livsfarlig fjende på nakken - som er 130 cm høj, og har nissehue på. Heldigvis er der kun tre simple regler, som skal overholdes: Intet skarpt lys, ingen høje lyde, og vigtigst af alt - stil altid en skål risengrød frem til jul! Den nyankomne familie indser dog hurtigt, at de ikke helt har styr på traditionerne, og inden længe er ikke kun julefreden, men også deres liv, i alvorlig fare...
Det er fortællingen om en mexicanske teenager, Jamie Reyes, der vender hjem fuld af forhåbning om sin fremtid, kun for at opdage, at hjemmet ikke er helt, som han forlod det. Mens han prøver at finde sit formål i denne verden, griber skæbnen ind, da Jamie uventet finder sig selv i besiddelse af en ældgammel aktiv genstand - en "Scarab" med bioteknologi. Da "Scarab" vælger Jamie til at være dens symbiotiske vært, får han en mageløs rustning, der besidder ekstraordinære og uforudsigelige kræfter. Disse kræfter ændrer for altid hans skæbne, og gør ham til superhelten "Blue Beetle".
Luna runs away from home in the middle of the night. In an unexpected encounter with a group of drag queens, she redefines her concept of family.
Iara, a girl who is about to come of age, dreams of seeing the ocean, but lives in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside with her mother, a woman who's dreams were swallowed by the waves and who fears of losing her daughter.
A countryside in 1988. Shun is crazy about fooling around with his best friends. Facing up with their family environment or bullying in school, they struggle against the problems in their adolescents.
Sons of Caribbean immigrants, Francis and Michael face questions of masculinity, identity and family amid the pulsing beat of Toronto's early hip-hop scene. A mystery unfolds when escalating tensions set off a series of events which changes the course of the brothers’ lives forever.
16-year-old Eveliina accidentally sees her mother kissing another woman. Fearing her parents' divorce, she decides to intervene, by any means and without permission. In her opinion, the best way to destroy her mother's extramarital affair and bring her parents back together is a teenage daughter in trouble. Thus, Eveliina gets herself in trouble as many ways as she can. Along the way, the lives of a few others are at stake. Still, Eveliina guards her plan to the last, and the adults have their own secret ways of survival - until the bubble bursts.
Denne coming-of-age-fortælling følger den unge Sammy Fabelman, der jager drømmen om at lave film. Den kunstneriske mor, Mitzi, er forkæmper for Sammys filminteresse, mens den videnskabelige far, Burt, ser det som en useriøs hobby. Men Sammy har hengivet sig til film og de magiske øjeblikke, der kan fortælle sandheden om ham selv og familien.
Samuel is a wild-looking twelve-year-old orphan who has been placed with a nanny, Marie, for several weeks. Marie, who is struggling between her feelings and her need for money, is married to Clément with whom she has two sons, Alexis and Dimitri. Very quickly Samuel will have to get to know this new family and their possible secrets.
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.
'Ticket to Paradise' har Julia Roberts og George Clooney på rollelisten, hvilket er stjernernes femte samarbejde efter bl.a. Ocean's Eleven. I filmen spiller Clooney og Roberts et fraskilt par, der rejser til Bali, hvor deres datter skal giftes med en mand, hun næsten lige har mødt. Undervejs slår de sig sammen for at forhindre deres datter i at begå samme fejl, som de mener, de begik 25 år tidligere.
A family reunion where everything is not as it seems. Short film made in 48 hours as part of Manchester Actors Platform 48 hour film competition.
In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.