Movies: Parents

A Charles Bukowski poem is put to animation. Four kids who are friends are drawn to a strange house that their parents tell them to avoid. One day they see a man of about 30 step outside, cigar and whiskey bottle in hand. He becomes a symbol for them...

Tom Alandh found a box that has been standing in his basement for almost 40 years, untouched. When he started to go through the contents, he found what was left of his foster parents' lives together: Photographs, old bills, receipts and letters he ha...

Two unique perspectives on the city of Liverpool come from interviews with the director's parents....

A study of my parents in grey and white. An evening film. My mother lights the sabbath candles, cooks, crochets, sleeps, talks to father reading the paper – we are together. This is the first completed note....

The Sunrise. A Baby breaks the silence....

The story of a family, told through their hands....

A desperate rescue attempt leads to the continuation of the lives of two young girls. Their families will do everything they can to keep their own daughter alive... Their lives may have just begun but they the god of death seems to have come upon th...

In moving interviews, four fathers describe their suffering and efforts to keep contact with their children. A mother justifies the refusal of contact from her point of view. Despite the seriousness of the topic, the film manages to remain entertaini...

Their last dinner before he leaves to join the Army. The reality of the situation begins to break in through the four surrounding walls....

After years of estrangement, single parent Arkadiy gets a visit from brother Igor and his son from Odesa. According to Jewish custom, they mourn their recently deceased mother while digging up old conflicts. As the war breaks out in Ukraine, the fami...

A bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of the next few days upsetting the newlywed's honeymoon....

Joo Hyeok and Joo Yeon spend an ordinary but happy day with their parents who run a small snack shop. One day, Joo Yeon goes missing with the news that a murder has occurred, and the more Joo Hyeok chases after the disappearing traces, Joo Hyeok fac...

Thirteen-year-old David Kealoha dreams of escaping rural Hawaii. But when Jonah Morris, a white kid from Phoenix, Arizona moves into the neighborhood, tragedy strikes, irrevocably changing the trajectory of David’s life and those closest to him....

A young man sends a film to his parents after twelve years of silence. He wants to show them the man he has become....

An abstract exploration of memory and loss....

A young woman is caught in a lie by her suspicious mom. With tensions already high from recently losing a loved one, their relationship unhinges....

A simplistically rendered girl screams and cries, and her environment changes to reflect her thoughts and mood....

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While the Mom and the Dad try to put their baby to sleep, a competition arises between them: who will manage to get the baby to say the first word?...

The year is two thousand and something. An elderly couple live alone in a flat in Sarajevo, with their own rituals: drinking coffee, playing cards, watching TV....