5 years old Yang spends an afternoon with his mother on a shopping trip. When he throws a tantrum after feeling neglected, she decides to punish him by walking away. A seemingly harmless punishment eventually becomes a pivotal childhood experience for Yang that will forever change him.
A woman is stuck in a loveless marriage to a brutish husband, but when a handsome vagabond stranger appears, her precocious 11-year-old hatches a plan to get rid of his father so that his mother can marry him instead. But things end up backfiring, so he comes up with yet another plan, this one even more devious, with more disastrous and unexpected consequences.
When Vlace is suspended for hitting a classmate, Sasha is called to come get his son at school and has no choice but to take him along on his delivery route. During this intimate journey, we discover what provoked Vlace's uncharacteristic act, as father and son find their way toward a new understanding.
In seeking to better understand the universe of Sophia, Joana, devoted mother , goes through beautiful sensory experiences
An intimate moment between a father and an almost grown-up son leads to a fundamental, though subtle, change in their relationship. Their unconditional love towards each other becomes clear, albeit unsaid.
A Garifuna woman returns to Honduras to forget her past and rediscover herself.
A father afflicted by photophobia searches for his daughter lost in the world of cybersex chat.
"REM" is an Afrikaans Sci-Fi Drama about a grief-stricken father, Dehan, who becomes obsessed with the memory of his late wife, Lena, through the use of a high-tech, dream-altering device, the REM. This unhealthy obsession leads to Dehan struggling to reconnect with his young son, Erich, who survived the car accident that caused Lena's death. Dehan must decide to face and to confront his grief, reconnecting with his son, or to become so immersed in his fantasy dream-world that he loses touch with reality, and Erich, altogether.
A boys first weekend with the father after the divorce of his parents. Together with his friends, he makes a plan to turn that weekend into a horror trip, to punish his father. But then everything changes
Jack, who has all but failed at life, dreams of a fresh beginning abroad. Instead, he unexpectedly has to take care of his hated father Paul, who he has not seen since childhood. Paul suffers from Alzheimer's and wants to make peace with his son while he still can. But Jack has very different plans for Paul. Two worlds collide, and a journey to Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, turns into an odyssey back to a painfully suppressed past.
Film tells the story of marginalized people in Kerala through the life of a father who working as a temporary cleaner and his Eight year old son.
While her middle class, socialist family is falling apart around her, Berina, a young artist, tries to cope both with her awakening sexuality and her mother Jasna's imminent death. Her father cannot accept the fact that life is already happening without his wife. Her younger sister Luna cannot or does not want to grow up. For everybody's sake, Berina wants to save her mother's life and her family the only way she can - through art, and through magic.
This poignant documentary from directors Judith Leonard, Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg explores the rich complexity of mother-daughter relationships as told by women themselves in scores of candid interviews. Honoring the sometimes close, sometimes fractious, but always vital link moms share with their girls, this film celebrates how these relationships evolve in stages from birth through adulthood to the end of life.
8-year old Alek's parents are divorced and he lives with his mother. He can feel that after the divorce there has been a big void in her life. He decides to help her by finding a suitable husband. He first decides on an athlete, then a driver but none of them seem to be good enough for her. Then he runs into Chony, who immediately feels as the perfect fit for mum. Alek has to figure out how to make the two of them meet and at the same time divert mum's attention from uncle Mincho. All of his plans eventually fail but Alek comes to realize that he should not meddle with his mother's personal life and let her choose for herself.
La piccola Chihiro non sopporta l'idea di traslocare e di perdere i propri amici, ma non può far niente per impedirlo. Proprio quando la famiglia è in viaggio verso la nuova casa, il padre imbocca una strada sterrata che termina davanti a un tunnel misterioso. I genitori sceglieranno di attraversarlo nonostante le rimostranze di Chihiro, per giungere a un parco dei divertimenti abbandonato, almeno apparentemente.
A successful young man must return to his childhood small town in Texas to help his father. His father, who's ill, wants him to take over the family business, a dilapidated bar. Secretly the young man wants to burn down the bar because he blames it for the death of his own mother and the illness of his father.
Forrest Gump - un ragazzo non proprio idiota, ma dal basso coefficiente d'intelligenza - racconta la sua storia a coloro che, uno dopo l'altro, si siedono vicino a lui in attesa dell'autobus. È stato in Vietnam, ha stretto la mano a tre presidenti, ha incontrato Elvis, ha assistito ai movimenti studenteschi, ha casualmente fatto esplodere il Watergate, ha suggerito le parole di "Imagine" a John Lennon e per tutta la vita è stato innamorato di una ragazza conosciuta fin da bambino.
E' la storia dell'amicizia tra Alfredo, proiezionista del cinematografo parrocchiale del paesino di Giancaldo in Sicilia, e Salvatore, diventato poi da grande affermato regista a Roma. Alla notizia della morte di Alfredo, Salvatore ripercorre nella sua memoria i momenti più significativi di questa amicizia e decide di tornare al suo paese per i funerali.Ma tra le altre sorprese scoprirà che la sala del Nuovo Cinema Paradiso sta per essere abbattuta.
Venkob Rao, a widower suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is moved to an old-age home by his son. When he goes missing one day, he crosses swords with criminals.
Separato dalla sua bambina, un padre con disabilità intellettiva viene incarcerato per la morte della figlia di un comandante. Dovrà dimostrare la propria innocenza.