Movies: Parents

The Sunrise. A Baby breaks the silence....

A provocative drama about an IVF mix-up which results in a white woman giving birth to a black boy....

Thirteen-year-old David Kealoha dreams of escaping rural Hawaii. But when Jonah Morris, a white kid from Phoenix, Arizona moves into the neighborhood, tragedy strikes, irrevocably changing the trajectory of David’s life and those closest to him....

Tom Alandh found a box that has been standing in his basement for almost 40 years, untouched. When he started to go through the contents, he found what was left of his foster parents' lives together: Photographs, old bills, receipts and letters he ha...

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In moving interviews, four fathers describe their suffering and efforts to keep contact with their children. A mother justifies the refusal of contact from her point of view. Despite the seriousness of the topic, the film manages to remain entertaini...

A young woman is caught in a lie by her suspicious mom. With tensions already high from recently losing a loved one, their relationship unhinges....

Exploring the director’s father’s chronic health problems, as a diabetic with kidney failure, and his mother’s role as his eternal caretaker, Chilly and Milly is a combination of 3D-modeled/composited characters, with cinéma vérité scenes from an aut...

Their last dinner before he leaves to join the Army. The reality of the situation begins to break in through the four surrounding walls....

Jimmy learns to appreciate his parents when a hand puppet dressed as a jester visits him up in the middle of the night and renders him invisible....

When they were children, Claire and Andrea would play Mary Worth (An old game where you say her name into a mirror three times). However, they could never muster the courage to say Mary's name the third time. Now curious and bored teenagers, they dec...

A year after Thadd and Shannon gave birth to their son, A Conversation Between Parents highlights a climactic conversation in their lives -- as both young parents grasp at the last threads of their ideal family. On an afternoon off of work, the coupl...

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A young man sends a film to his parents after twelve years of silence. He wants to show them the man he has become....

A study of my parents in grey and white. An evening film. My mother lights the sabbath candles, cooks, crochets, sleeps, talks to father reading the paper – we are together. This is the first completed note....

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An OFW returns home with her mother to fulfill a promise made for his father....

Achyut Shankar, a plus two student, wants to be a cricketer, but his father has already chalked out a career in medicine for him. While fighting parental pressure from his strict parents, this young boy gets involved in an incident....