La Patro

Dia de Madres

October 1988 •Spanish

Echo and Response

January 1965 •Slovenian

A 8mm short film.

Dear Etranger

August 2017 •Japanese

Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an ordinary family. Nanae then becomes pregnant. Afterwards, things begin to change among the family members.

Meatoo

February 2019 •English

A naive actor auditions for a film which could launch his career. The things he's asked to do make him more and more uncomfortable, until a choice remark from the director makes him see red.

Mother's Day

August 1948 •English

Accepting the potentialities of the medium to manipulate both time and space, Broughton brings past and present head-on as he regards with adult feelings his childhood family and friends. Grown-ups romp like children, and by their magnified infantilism playfully underscore such basic traits as sadism, sensuality, arid egocentricity. (Melbourne International Film Festival)

The Jacobson Dogma

July 2017 •English

The Jacobson Dogma

Verona

November 2013 •Portuguese

Ten years after the end of the dance music duo Verona, Elias come back to Brazil to meet his former partner, Walter, who is going to marry the young and talented Filipe. Walter lives in a countryside house, where he celebrates the end of his youth and the beginning of a new moment in his life.

The Storm

August 1965 •Arabic

The Kuwaiti short film العاصفة (The Storm) explores Kuwait's social and economic shifts before and after the discovery of oil. Through the perspectives of an older father and his modernized son, it delves into the challenges of tradition versus rapid modernization.

The Needle

December 2023 •Arabic

Dali and Mariem are impatiently awaiting the arrival of their first child. On the day of delivery, the doctor tells them that the baby has a rare characteristic. Upset by this news and confronted with his demons, Dali is no longer able to play his role with Mariem and their child.

Ночная смена

March 2016 •Russian

Sancta mortale

January 1997 •Dutch

The story of Lieve, a young orphan who lives with her aunt in a house for elderly people. When she finds a wounded pigeon, she integrates it in her world of fantasies and is persuaded that the pigeon is Jesus.

An American Rhapsody

June 2001 •English

A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later, the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter then decides to travel to Budapest to discover her identity.

The Blessed

December 2017 •French

Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way, their share their views on Algeria: Amal talks about lost illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with them. At the same time, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda are wandering about in a hostile Algiers about to steal their youth.

Berncastel

January 1995 •Dutch

A woman tells a story told in a poem about her life messing around with a lot of men.

L'apprentisage du péché

January 1997 •French

A child is confronted to the first questions about procreation, in a world wanting to awaken him to sexuality.

Back for Good

October 2017 •English

An actress confronts her quarter-life crisis by breaking up with New York City and returning home to win back the love of her life.

Based on a True Story

April 2009 •English

A struggling screenwriter falls victim to an unscrupulous talent & literary agent while trying to break into the entertainment industry.

Judgement

October 1999 •Korean

At the identification of a dead body, a couple and a morgue employee both claim to be related to the deceased, and therefore the rightful recipient of an indemnity of at least 520,000.

Goodbye Mommy

December 2024 •English

This horror machinima short by Alvin Soprano tells the story of little Lucy walking in on her recently deceased mother crossing over to the light.

Mr. Hyde

January 2012 •Swedish

Did you expect that evil had taken a vacation just because it's Christmas? Well, think again boys. Mr. Hyde appears at a prison in front of the inmates with a very different Christmas carol. And since he spends a lot of time on vaudeville, he sings and dance in this show as well.