Family Movies

Silence - the stuff of assumptions and confusion - is a legacy inherited by many grandchildren of Japanese Americans interned during WWII. Shortly aft...

A portrait that follows Nan, my uncle and the last two years he and his parents live together. In long, tightly framed shots, a picture emerges of thr...

Living together with her father, Yao Shan has to readjust her life after her mother's death. Misunderstanding and tension between she and her dad buil...

A family reunion where everything is not as it seems. Short film made in 48 hours as part of Manchester Actors Platform 48 hour film competition.

The world is not always beautiful, my mother says. My child wakes up. My parents smile at each other and recount – The house in which my mother never...

A contemporary drama with sarcastic humor about relational difficulties within families. The unexpected arrival of Martin’s enigmatic uncle, Bill Kell...

A filmmaker's poetic memories of her father.

A teenage girl gets ready for her Debs with the help of her mother.

A tale of two brothers told from the perspective of a rearview mirror

This short documentary illustrates rural French Canadian life in the early 1940s. The film follows Alexis Tremblay and his family through the busy aut...

A teenager finds it difficult to readjust to life in the city after spending a summer in the village.

Living in downtown Toronto to attend school, Lina Li returns to the comfort of home in Thornhill and her mother's cooking. In this candid short, filmm...

A documentary tragicomedy of a father-daughter relationship, told by the subjective perspective of the young director. She tries to understand how a r...

An Indonesian student in London attempts to deal with the absurdity of confinement and immobility due to then-ongoing coronavirus lockdown by talking...

Angels Gather Here’ follows Jacki Trapman’s journey back to her hometown of Brewarrina to celebrate her parents, Bill and Barbara’s 60th Wedding Anniv...

A-Juan and A-Jin, an old couple in Taiwan, hope for their son to return home from Mainland China as they go through difficult times while everything s...

A daughter uses postcards to re-create past moments for her mother, who is living with dementia