My Family Essay

Topsy Turvy

October 1983 •Danish

An uptight young man and his equally uptight family moves next door to a hedonistic clan, including the beautiful, sexy Topsy, who charms the new neighbor boy Tom. But Tom discovers that the price of loving Topsy may be higher than he's willing to pay -- she insists on absolute honesty and a life and love without possession or exclusivity.

Fruitcake!

September 2025 •English

A young woman losing her grip on reality returns home with a plan to face her past by building a boat.

Chanthupottu

August 2005 •Malayalam

Radhakrishnan's grandmother brings him up in an effeminate manner as she always wanted a granddaughter. Things start to change after he falls in love with Malu, a woman.

The Ecstasies of Women

April 1969 •English

Harry's friends throw him a night-long bachelor party, and he flashes back to his many female 'conquests' with the go-go dancers who remind him of his array of past lovers.

The Empire of Desire

March 1981 •Portuguese

A widow named Sandra is on a trip from the city to reclaim her remote beach house from squatters. She picks up a hippie couple along the way, eventually inviting them to become housesitters at her coastal getaway.

Sugar Fields

July 2016 •Spanish

A young peasant is forced to flee for killing involuntarily an abusive guard. After an entire year hiding in a remote fishing island, he decides to return to his countryside and reunite with his wife and daughters.

Women Workers Leaving the Factory

March 2005 •Spanish

An atmospheric portrait of four women who leave the factory where they work to go to the beach.

Outta Dodge

Invalid date •English

After Robbie, a rebellious femme teen, comes home from another run in with the law, they find a letter from their estranged father, steal their worried mom's car, and head for the shore to find their punk rock idol.

Erika's Hot Summer

December 1971 •English

Sleazeball photographer Steve is busy taking pictures of beautiful young women, bedding them, and then dumping them. One day he meets the woman of his dreams on the beach: Erika. Once he's frolicked on the beach and taken her to bed, the other women in his life become unsatisfactory, and he suffers a playboy's crisis. One of his other women proves to be a bit more persistent than he expects.

Goosebumps: Deep Trouble

April 2005 •English

Billy and Sheena visit their Uncle Harold on an island in the Caribbean, but while exploring under water they find something terrible lurking deep below the sea.

This Light Rains

April 2007 •English

On the morning a soldier leaves for war, he must bring his family together or risk losing them forever.

When the Whales Came

March 1989 •English

A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.

Hotel Riviera

Invalid date •Italian

The Goose and the Gander

September 1935 •English

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.

Surf, Sand and Sex

January 1994 •English

Six women on a beach tell each other their fantasies. These stories are shown to us as little sex vignettes.

Domenica

February 2001 •Italian

Police inspector Sciarra, struggling with an identity crisis, and Domenica, an orphan who would like to know about her mother, spend one day together along the streets of Naples. It's Sciarra's last day of work and he has to take Domenica to the morgue, to identify a man who might have raped her. To Domenica, Sciarra is a father she never had, to him she is the daughter he couldn't have.

Changeland

June 2019 •English

Follow two estranged best friends on an epic, life-changing adventure in Thailand, as they're reminded that there's no problem that friendship and a few rounds in a Muay Thai boxing ring can't fix.

Civil War

April 2010 •Portuguese

Summer of 1982, a beach in the south of Portugal. Rui and his parents live closed in their worlds, blind to the failure that characterizes them as a family and condemns them to the malaise of survival. Rui will have school exams but he is only interested in music and in the exploration of imaginary worlds that he constantly sketches in drawings. Only Joana seems capable of pulling him out of his autism. The girl's vitality fascinates him.

Bedlands

November 2023 •English

The homeless bed salesman Uwe tries to spend the night in the furniture store, but nothing comes of it. The aging security guard Bernd catches him and wants to get rid of him. What Uwe doesn't know is that Bernd also has a secret. In the nightly anonymity of the furniture store, he sells identities.

Rose Quartz

June 2024 •Turkish

On a busy beach on the Aegean Coast, we meditate on a turning point in life.