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.
Yu Tian (played by Hu Tian) is a senior this year. He hasn't returned home for a few years while studying in a big city. The estrangement between him and his mother (Lin Jiehua) is somehow getting bigger and bigger. He is immersed in his artistic dreams and is not practical, but his mother, who has always been conservative, does not understand. His friends remained the same, still the same young people in the small town. Friends booed that he would be the most promising one among them, but he himself was convinced. He told his sister (played by Sun Nan) that he would go to the big city to make a fortune.
Growing up, I heard many tales of my grandmother's life, before she was known as Mimo, and each narrative she told stuck with me and still impact my thinking to this day. I wanted to celebrate Mimo's wisdom and character, as well as capture the extraordinary within the ordinary. Hopefully I can inspire others to reflect on their own relationships with their elders and the untold stories that shaped their lives.
A thirsty boy steals the Lattella drink of his sister
Siblings Aru, age 3, and Kino, age 1, have 3 parents: father Fumino, who is transgender; mother Honoyo, Fumino's partner who gave birth to the children; and father Gon, a close gay friend who donated his sperm. The 3 are now raising their children together, struggling repeatedly to find their own way of being a family. This program covers their first 3 years of parenting. And it asks an important question: What does it take to be a family?
Debbie was already pregnant in Indonesia before she was married to Taiwan. Her useless husband has no doubt till Debbie’s Indonesian friend visit the family...
An intimate portrait of the lives of Delvys and Carlos, siblings who live alone with their elderly mother in a rural part of a small Cuban town. The film portrays a family engulfed in their inner worlds. Between the sacrifices they make out of love for those who are present, and their longing for things that are absent, they struggle to find meaning as they reflect, contemplate, and carry the weight of existence, trying together, to move forward.
A grandmother, mother, and daughter quarantine together in a Tribeca apartment as they laugh about life over wine.
Rescapé d’un grave accident de la circulation, Markus réapprend à vivre auprès de Michael, son frère, qui lui consacre tout son temps. Un magnifique chant d’amour filmé sur plus de dix ans.
Over nearly 20 years, filmmaker Carlos Nader lived with the Paraná truck Nilson de Paula and his family. From the beginning, the project was to conduct a documentary whose intentions become viscerally, a process also captured by the camera. During this period, becomes the lives of Nilson, who gets sick, his wife, Jane, and his only daughter, Liciane, as well as the director, who happens to be part of this circle also affectively. Major issues such as the meaning of life, are incorporated into the very fabric of the film, which oppose excerpts from the classic "The Word" (Ordet), Carl Dreyer, highlighting aesthetic and existential connections.
Au début des années 1990, l’Abkhazie déclarait son indépendance après une guerre civile sanglante contre la Géorgie. Vingt-trois ans plus tard, la petite république d'à peine 250 000 âmes n'est toujours pas reconnue par la communauté internationale. Pire, elle semble condamnée à vivre sous perfusion de son voisin et allié russe. Seuls un douteux mousseux local – que l'on mélange avec du soda – et l'organisation des championnats du monde de dominos semblent faire la fierté de l'Abkhazie. C’est dans l’ombre de cet État fantoche que Natacha et Rafael ont décidé de s’aimer. Lui est ministre des Sports et défend l'idée d'un nationalisme abkhaze conquérant. Elle, chanteuse lyrique russe, a abandonné sa carrière et sa fille en Russie pour vivre son nouvel amour. Un choix difficile à assumer.
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.
Marie a délaissé sa carrière de musicienne pour se consacrer à son époux Thomas et leurs deux enfants. Elle apprend soudain que ce dernier, un violoniste très sollicité, est non seulement bigame, mais qu'il est le père de deux autres enfants et réside pour moitié dans une maison qu'elle ne connaît pas. Dès lors, son existence harmonieuse se disloque, révélant tous les mensonges qui ont façonné son bonheur de mère et d'épouse. Elle décide de suivre Thomas pour lui demander des explications, mais découvre un univers encore plus déliquescent : un vieux château dans lequel se déroule un grotesque bal masqué. Au lendemain, Marie prend une décision inattendue... Une relecture contemporaine de Médée d'Euripide.
Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and running water in a solitary tent home among the vast steppe grasslands. The magnificent landscape here has changed little since the days of Genghis Kahn. But life in the middle of nowhere can be exciting for a young boy. The smallest of details become big events for curious Bilike and his best friends Erguotou and Dawa. The mystery of the small white ball floating in the creek leads to questions about the world around them, as well as innocent mischief.