The Wait

Endgame

September 2015 •English

Since he was 5 yrs old, Jose's abuelita taught him to play chess like his grandfather who was a champion in Mexico. Now as part of the Brownsville school team, Jose has the chance to use his skills and for once in his life, finds himself in the spotlight, as he tries to help his team make it to the Texas state finals. As their coach, Mr. Alvarado, teaches his students the meaning of perseverance and team effort in the face of adversity, Jose discovers his own strengths and uses them to bring his broken family together.

The Son of Joseph

April 2016 •French

A young man who lives with his mother and has never known his father, heads off to look for him. He finds a cynical and Machiavellian man who works as a publisher in Paris. After he attempts to kill him, he finds filial love thanks to his uncle.

IMMEMOR

February 2025 •French

Click

June 2006 •English

A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.

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December 2010 •Danish

Emma goes to see her father on her birthday, but only his new boyfriend is at home.

Atharintiki Daaredi

September 2013 •Telugu

Goutham promises his grandfather that he will reunite him with his estranged daughter, Sunanda. Posing as a driver, Goutham enters Sunanda's house but trouble soon follows.

Oyaji

August 2007 •Japanese

Surrounded by violence for as long as he can remember, Ryoudo Numata has steeled himself into a tremendously tough man, growing to become the very essence of "manliness" himself in order to live his life in peace. When members of a yakuza clan set on fire to his house to facilitate a real estate transaction, Kumada murders them and gets jailed for it. 15 years later, finally free, he will now have to reconnect with his family who clearly are in disarray due his long absence and face the distrust of his children who know nothing of their father except that he had abandoned them.

For Old Times' Sake

December 2024 •English

A young musician struggles to come to terms with the re-emergence of his estranged father.

Psychosis in Stockholm

August 2020 •Swedish

On vacation in Stockholm, a teenage daughter is left wandering the city alone when her mother suffers from a sudden mental breakdown. Coming of age becomes an equally sudden necessity.

Take Care

November 2024 •Portuguese

Filomena lives alone in a rural village in the interior of Portugal and has just found out that she doesn't have much time left to live. Her granddaughter Laura, a young woman in her early twenties, raised by her, shows up out of nowhere at her house. They share memories of childhood and youth, up to the moment when the granddaughter left home to attend University in Lisbon. But something strange happens when the two have a heated argument about the possible return of Laura's mother to their lives. Is Filomena's illness playing tricks on her? Or is something else going on here?

Lavender

September 2015 •

A portrait of a depressed mother and her child.

Leaving on the 15th Spring

April 2013 •Japanese

Junior high school student Yuna lives with her father Toshiharu. Her mother Akemi moved to Naha when her older sister entered high school, and Yuna is worried about her father's life after she leaves.

Pusher II

December 2004 •Danish

Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.

Our Son

October 2023 •English

When his husband Gabriel files for divorce, Nicky fights for custody of their 8-year-old son Owen, as he struggles to come to terms with what it means to love someone and what it means to be a father.

A Kid

August 2016 •French

Matthieu is a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblings in Quebec. But once in Montréal, he realizes that nobody is aware of his existence or even interested in it. He is alone, in hostile territory…

Angel Mountain

September 2021 •English

Growing up in a small rural farm town in the early 1950's, sixteen- year-old Jimmy Hoffer, and his two siblings do their best to survive poverty and a crumbling family unit.

The Wanderer

August 2020 •English

Ash (AJ Neumann) roams the woods of the deep south in escape of a shrouded past until he comes across a gang of young outlaws. Its leader, Silas, (Cody Dedon) adopts Ash into their carefree life of petty crime and adventure. But when tragedy strikes at the gang's heart, Ash and Silas are set against one another on an irreversible path towards retribution and redemption.

Chips Off the Old Block

September 1942 •English

Butch, a beaten up pug of a tomcat, is having a good day, and everything is peaceful. Then the doorbell rings. He finds the unexpected present of four kittens left on his doorstep (and from their coloring, there's little question as to who's the father). Butch spends his time trying to hide the mischievous kittens from his owner.

What About Sal?

April 2024 •English

With his mother dying of lung cancer, Sal, in his 30's and with Down Syndrome, embarks on a journey to find his father - a rock band singer that his mother had a one-night stand with - 30 years ago.

The Tooth

October 2023 •English

A woman grapples with the traumatic childhood memory of losing one of her baby teeth.