Quand les chemins d'un adolescent enlevé, de gangsters sans scrupules et d'une femme ex-agent spécial sans pitié se croisent, le sang ne tarde pas à couler.
Leah, 10 ans, vit dans une grande et vieille maison avec sa famille, mais elle n'arrive pas à comprendre pourquoi sa mère semble si distante. La nuit, elle reçoit la visite d'un mystérieux invité, qui pourrait lui donner des réponses. Avec un nouveau défi chaque nuit, Leah est récompensée par des bribes de connaissances qui, une fois rassemblées, menacent d'éclairer dangereusement la vérité de ses cauchemars et du monde dans lequel elle vit.
Antonia, dite Toni, élève seule ses 5 enfants. Elle chante aussi le soir, dans des bars, car il faut bien nourrir sa famille. Toni a du talent. Elle a enregistré un single qui a cartonné. Mais ça, c'était il y a 20 ans. Aujourd'hui ses deux aînés s'apprêtent à rejoindre l'université. Alors Toni s'interroge : que fera-t-elle quand toute sa progéniture aura quitté le foyer ?
Calling Mother is about the moments when you just have to call your mum. It is a compilation of phone calls made by different people to their mothers. Film follows the lifespan of a human being from youth to adulthood, a child changing from a dependent to a caretaker. Phone calls are connected by images of an old telephone center and a story of a young mother who doesn’t have a mother to call.
A boy is raised by a village chieftain after his mother loses him in the woods. As time passes and he grows up, he falls in love with a princess who is under the spell of a witch and decides to save her
The narrator's voice tells of John Dough, who wakes up after a late-night party and prepares to go to work. However, a few interruptions, including thinking for a moment that he sees a woman's body in his bed, having his car key not work, and thinking he hears his mother calling, delay his departure from home by almost a minute. When tragedy strikes close by, John revisits the morning's events. A phone call from his brother in Chicago confirms how odd this morning is. Did John experience telepathy or was it all coincidence? If radio waves can carry a communication, why not a mother's love?
Dans la famille Sorcière, je demande la mère, la grand-mère, et les enfants sorciers. Un conte d’une grande fantaisie qui flirte avec le merveilleux.
A mother tries to comfort her grieving son, but on each attempt her son’s silence becomes more and more deafening. An outing to the local aquarium places further strain on their troubled relationship - until her son finds a reason to let his mother in again.
A story of a mother and her son and a race against a tortoise where you always lose.