Family Movies

In 2021, Australia (particularly the eastern states) was hit with a wave of COVID-19 cases that heavily affected many families, causing whole states t...

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 filmmaker's poetic memories of her father.

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 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...

A portrait of a broken family.

Three Girls lose their paper route when the local paper news paper closes. Hoping to buy christmas presents they start a Christmas Tree Lot to make mo...

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

Lisa Lewenz retraces the steps of her Jewish grandmother who dared to film life in Berlin during the rise of Nazi Germany.

Bauer’s quirky family gathers once a year in a French chateau. There is a crooning cousin, family dinners with games and plays, and a great-uncle who...

Tata Miguel makes his last life journey in search of his long-lost teenage crush with the help of his 8-year-old granddaughter whom he has just met. G...

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

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

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

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

The Journey of Hayun, a Korean-American archer, and her family, as they strive to achieve mastery in archery.

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

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...