Στο σύγχρονο Ιράν τέσσερις ιστορίες γύρω από τη θανατική ποινή φέρνουν μια χούφτα χαρακτήρες αντιμέτωπους με σκληρά ηθικά διλήμματα.
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
Νάπολη, αρχές 20ού αιώνα. Ο σπουδαίος κωμικός ηθοποιός και συγγραφέας Εντουάρντο Σκαρπέτα γνωρίζει μεγάλη επιτυχία με τα έργα του. Ωστόσο, όλα όσα έχει καταφέρει κινδυνεύουν να χαθούν εξαιτίας μιας τρομερής δικαστικής διαμάχης.
An adopted Irish American artist confronts her past when both sets of parents come together over a weekend for her to paint a family portrait.
In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small seaside town, where she became a doctor. Martine's daughter, Audrey, a thirty-year-old independent woman, returns to visit her parents. By chance, she finds a notebook that belonged to her grandmother, a diary that may at last explain her departure. Will it reveal the things left unsaid, that have altered the relationships within the heart of the family ever since? In it, will Audrey find answers to the questions that she is asking herself about her own future?
GRUFF is a handmade, paper short film that tells the story of a daughter, mother, and grandfather and how love is conveyed in different ways.
Trevor, an Englishman living in Spain, is visited by his daughter who brings information that will change Trevor's life forever.
After starting a family of his very own in the United States, a gay filmmaker documents his loving, traditional Chinese family's process of acceptance.
The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?
The film is a portrait of the Novak family: the results of the marriage between the farmer Novak and a townswoman of German descent, their children and their tragic fates and the life of Andrej - the Novaks' only surviving child. Andrej recalls the days of his youth and the wartime years, in which the family slowly breaks up due to different political beliefs and world-outlooks. In addition to the loss of many members of his family, Andrej must also face the fact that his father has disowned him and his girlfriend left him. Despite all, however, he keeps alive his hopes of a better future, which, to him, is embodied by the beautiful Iza.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my Soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my Soul to take.
Some Things Are Hard To Talk About is a personal documentary about the secrets of abortions in my family over three generations. After I had an abortion I find out that both my mother and my grandmother secretly had abortions. An intricate story of family history, choices and resulting effects uncovers.