Father Unknown

Dipsomania

August 2023 •Spanish

Andrea, a young teenager goes out at her best friend's party looking for some fun. But the more it advances the night, she ends finding out that she lives in a harmful reality, even more than she expected.

Light in the Window

January 1987 •Azerbaijani

Togrul loves his wife Leyla very much and is terribly jealous at the same time. His jealousy destroys the family, and even Togrul's mother, knowing her son's unfair treatment, decides to leave home with her daughter-in-law...

Bad Tales

June 2020 •Italian

In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque façade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.

The Glass Menagerie

December 1973 •English

An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and her aspiring writer son.

Uninvited

December 2017 •Korean

Jungho’s mom comes up to Seoul and visits Jungho’s place in a sudden. Jungho’s not comfortable with her visit.

Another Happy Day

November 2011 •English

A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.

The Melting Faith

November 2022 •Thai

A family is deciding whether to cure their mother's illness through medicine or superstition.

Trophy

January 2021 •French

Dominique, a shy and introverted teenager, wants just one thing: to become the best hockey player in her league. Her father, acting as her personal trainer, expects no less. But when she secures a coveted trophy, whose win is it?

Early Summer

October 1951 •Japanese

A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Acasă, My Home

January 2020 •Romanian

In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, nine children and their parents lived in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years – until they are chased out and forced to adapt to life in the big city.

Vámonos

June 2015 •English

When Mac, a young butch Latina, dies, her girlfriend, Hope, must overcome both personal grief and homophobic hostilities from Mac’s family in order to respectfully send Mac off into the afterlife as she would’ve wanted.

Mother, Couch

July 2024 •English

The members of a dysfunctional family find themselves mysteriously trapped in an antiquated furniture store when their elderly matriarch suddenly refuses to get up from one of the display couches.

Homebound

April 2022 •English

A young woman arrives at the home of her new husband's estranged family to find the children behaving in increasingly unnerving ways.

Sunday Morning in Victoria Park

June 2010 •Indonesian

A young woman struggles in foreign countries to improve her self esteem to her family and to the community.

Brother and Sister

May 2022 •French

Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.

My Marlboro City

September 2011 •Italian

Brindisi, Italy: a focal point in cigarette smuggling. The director returns to her hometown to see what's left of the past and what lies in store for the future.

Óga

February 2024 •Spanish

Elisa, My Life

April 1977 •Spanish

Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis in her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill. Elisa decides to travel to the countryside of Madrid with Isabel and her brother-in-law Julián and their two children to visit Luis for his birthday. Elisa decides to stay with her father when her sister returns to Madrid with her family and she gets closer to Luis, understanding why he left her mother years ago. Later she tells him that Antonio cheated on her with her best friend Sophie and their relationship has ended. When Antonio unexpectedly arrives in the house, Elisa makes a decision about her life.

Daddy Nostalgia

September 1990 •French

A half English, half French screenwriter visits her parents on the Riviera after her father's heart surgery. Once there, she begins to connect with him in a way she never did before, as each member of the family tries to cope with his imminent death.

Home is Far Away

November 2022 •Thai

A young university student returns home wanting to talk to her mother about her drop-out from university.