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Film Movement volume year 4, film 5
Language
Français
Description
Mimi, a divorced aerobics instructor who is up to her ears in debt, leaves Montreal with her restless 14-year-old daughter and moves in with her childhood friend.
2) Broken
Series
Language
English
Description
Skunk is an 11 year-old girl who lives a carefree life with her father, on a cul-de-sac in a very much middle-class neighborhood in Britain. At the beginning of the movie Skunk sees Rick, a young man living across the street, getting violently beaten up by yet another neighbor, Mr. Oswald. We later learn that one of Oswald's daughters, in order to save face, told her dad that Rick raped her, following which Oswalt in a rage pummels Rick. Skunk is...
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Film Movement volume 2, film 10
Language
English
Description
A story of three sisters coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family in the 1960s.
4) Wildland
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Language
Danish
Description
Following a car accident, which kills her mother, seventeen-year-old Ida moves in with her estranged aunt and her aunt's grown sons. The home is filled with physical tenderness and love, but outside of the home, the family leads a violent and criminal life. When an unforeseen murder pressures the family and their loyalty to each other, tension builds as love and violence become impossible to separate. Ida is faced with the same question her mother...
Series
Film Movement volume 11, film 11
Language
Español
Description
"Alberto, a divorced father, takes his two children for a vacation at a thermal resort in Salto. Things don't turn out as planned as the non-stop rain forces them to stay indoors, away from the pools and with no TV. Alberto's efforts to entertain his children are met with indifference by Federico, his youngest son, and Lucía, his teenage daughter."--IMDb.com
Series
Film Movement volume 6, film 3
Language
English
Description
The morning of Tunde's graduation party things have already begun to unravel. Tunde has managed to alienate his sister, Simisola. His older brother, Ade, persistently plagues him with criticism, and their mother has started drinking again. Unbeknownst to most, Tunde has orchestrated the return of his long estranged father, resurrecting unresolved family anguish against the backdrop of Tunde's celebration.
7) Sweet thing
Series
Language
English
Description
Billie is a 15-year-old girl who fantasizes Billie Holiday as a sort of fairy godmother. Billie has to navigate the evolving challenges of her life while she plays mother to her 11-year-old brother, Nico. They meet up with another adolescent, run away from home, and together roam the area free from their parents' watchful eye. They discover freedom and enchantment among the boats and railway tracks of New Bedford, Massachusetts. They fantasize about...
Series
Film Movement volume 12, film 5
Language
Français
Description
"In her mid-thirties, Anne still knows practically nothing of her family's past. After her mother's death, Anne discovers old photos and letters that convince her to take a closer look at her parents' life after the concentration camps of World War II. Her research reveals the existence of a mysterious uncle everyone seems intent on forgetting entirely. As she closes in on a discovery she didn't expect, her father grows ever more ill, and may take...
Series
Film Movement volume year 10, film 9
Language
עברית
Description
After years of living apart from her dad, Libby, an introverted yet sharp-witted teenager, is sent to live with him is Israel. Her arrival coincides with the outbreak of the second Lebanon war. Libby quickly discovers that her dad, Shaul, is an infantile eccentric, and that he is "in-between apartments" (in other words, homeless). Shaul comes up with a creative plan to put a roof over their heads. They pose as refugees from the bombarded northern...
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 7
Language
Français
Description
Eli, who's about to be 60, is expecting a baby with his new wife. Upon hearing this news, his two grown daughters, Dom, who is trying to adopt, and Justine, who flits from one boyfriend to the next, are shocked. To get closer to Justine, whom he has never gotten along with, Eli has the bright idea of making friends with all of her exes ... without her knowledge. But when Justine falls in love again and Eli is about to ruin everything, this family...
12) For a woman
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Language
Français
Description
The unexpected arrival of a brother who supposedly perished during World War II upsets the lives of a Jewish tailor and his pretty bride.
Series
Language
Nederlands
Description
When a handsome exchange student named Veit arrives for a two-week stay with the dysfunctional van End family, each household member confronts his or her own insecurities, doubts, fears, and desires, led by the former wallflower Eva, who embarks on the most dramatic transformation of all.
14) The dynamiter
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 10
Language
English
Description
All 14 year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet, as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown, and he's left to burn the days away caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep days and nights pass without her return, and with older brother Lucas dangerously in their lives again and with social services looming over them, Robbie may even lose Fess, Robbie must face the fact that his...
Series
Film Movement volume 12, film 8
Language
Español
Description
To kill a man: After becoming the target of a street thug and finding no help from legal authorities, a working-class man decides to take matters into his own hands to protect his family.
Our blood: A brother and sister meet for the first time on an isolated bison farm. What begins as an attempt to reunite a family ends in ecstatic violence when the two are seduced into transgressing primordial law.