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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Sashinka
Seattle International Film Festival
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal
Whistler Film FestivalWhen 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 ...
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Mater
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Belgrade Film Festival
Pula Film FestivalWhen 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...
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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...
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Borealis
"Full of rich comic moments and euphoric revelations." Toronto Star
Vancouver International Film Festival Winner
Brooklyn Film Festival
Canadian Film FestivalAn unemployed gambling addict drags his pot-smoking teenage daughter on a road trip to Churchill, Manitoba, in hopes of showing her the ...
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Born in Evin
Berlin International Film Festival
Hot Docs Film Festival
IDFABorn 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...
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Torrey Pines
BFI Flare
Cucalorus Film Festival
Framline Film FestivalBased 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...
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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
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Manu
"Emmanuelle Bonmariage delivers a multi-layered documentary about a filmmaker and extraordinary man’s road to remembrance." Cineuropa
IDFA
Docville
Munich Dok FestThe Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage now has Alzheimer's at age 76. As his memory starts to fade, his daughter Emmanuelle goes bac...
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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 FestivalA wonderfully realised look at the immigrant experience in the USA, the award-winning Los Lob...