Family Bonds

Family Bonds

A collection of films examine the complex, challenging relationships between children and their parents, and the fragility of family bonds.

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Family Bonds
  • Sashinka

    Seattle International Film Festival
    Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal
    Whistler Film Festival

    When young, up-and-coming, musician Sasha receives a surprise visit from her mother just as she's about to perform one of the biggest shows of her career, she is forced confront a past she's worked ...

  • Mater

    Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
    Belgrade Film Festival
    Pula Film Festival

    When Jasna (Daria Lorenci-Flatz) returns to her childhood home in Croatia in order to care for her mother, Anka (Neva Rosic), who is in ill health, she is forced to confront the complex, damaging relationship she has wi...

  • Little Bird

    Toronto International Film Festival

    Little Bird follows the journey of a young adult struggling to face the paramount loss of their mother. In this semi autobiographical film, we are taken on an afternoon journey through grief. This short film will break your heart and help piece it back togethe...

  • Borealis

    "Full of rich comic moments and euphoric revelations." Toronto Star

    Vancouver International Film Festival Winner
    Brooklyn Film Festival
    Canadian Film Festival

    An unemployed gambling addict drags his pot-smoking teenage daughter on a road trip to Churchill, Manitoba, in hopes of showing her the ...

  • Born in Evin

    Berlin International Film Festival
    Hot Docs Film Festival
    IDFA

    Born in Evin follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world. Over forty years have passed since th...

  • Torrey Pines

    BFI Flare
    Cucalorus Film Festival
    Framline Film Festival

    Based on a true story, Torrey Pines is an inventive, wonderfully imaginative coming-of-age tale taking place in Southern California in the early 1990's. The animated film focusses on the filmmaker Clyde Petersen's childhood over the course...

  • My Father's Tools

    ImagineNATIVE Film Festival

    In honour of his father, Stephen continues the production of traditional baskets. He thus finds peace in his studio, in connection with the man who taught him the work.

    Canada - 2016 - 6m 23s
    Directed By: Heather Condo

  • Manu

    "Emmanuelle Bonmariage delivers a multi-layered documentary about a filmmaker and extraordinary man’s road to remembrance." Cineuropa

    IDFA
    Docville
    Munich Dok Fest

    The Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage now has Alzheimer's at age 76. As his memory starts to fade, his daughter Emmanuelle goes bac...

  • Los Lobos

    “Los Lobos” thrives as an intimate window into what it means to confront immigrant life in piecemeal." Indiewire

    Berlin International Film Festival
    Busan International Film Festival
    Miami Film Festival

    A wonderfully realised look at the immigrant experience in the USA, the award-winning Los Lob...