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Bird Woman

January 2024 •German

Annedore takes care of orphan birds. They give her that which humans througout her turbulent life could never give her: love.

Sofía

June 2021 •Spanish

A taboo in the family: the death of my great-grandmother Sofía. The surface of this history is known but not the background and much less the beginning, only its end. The tragic end The answers are in the family, in my grandparents and my uncles. This project is a tribute to her and the woman she was.

Anything Else Than Air

March 2014 •Spanish

This film explores the consequences of the decisions we take and shows those things which really matter. After leaving his wife and children and promising he would be back, a man lives in a tent at a Mexico City park. There, he earns his living by selling balloons. After 30 years, he needs to fulfill his promise and return home. Will his family accept him back? Is he going to be able to change a life on the streets for the comfort of his home?

The Scars

March 2019 •Basque

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?

Found letters

June 2024 •Spanish

Mariana revisits a trunk of letters that Ricardo, her father, sent to Alfa, her mother, in the 90s when he lived in Canada. Now that her father has left the country again, Mariana seeks answers about the evolution of her parents' love through an emotional encounter.

The Bastard Images

August 2024 •Spanish

Embracing a temporary visual impairment, a filmmaker immerses in her family’s 1990s home movies, composing a narrative that reimagines her father’s vision. They reconnect in the present, amid vulnerability, awkwardness and love: the story of a gardener and a one-eyed woman.

All American

June 2024 •English

In this modern, coming of age documentary, Naomi, Jojo and Arham grapple with economic divides, gender roles, and family dynamics while competing in the fastest growing high school sport in the country: girl’s wrestling.

A Love Letter to My Sister

November 2023 •Thai

A brother and sister discuss domestic violence that has occurred by looking back at family photo albums.

Addicted to Solitude

October 1999 •English

I traveled to South Africa to find a white family living on a desolate farm. I wanted to film how they faced the new days of equality after the fall of Apartheid. But I soon lost my way both on the endless roads and in my way. Instead, the film became a story about two very different women who both experienced a tragic loss in the midst of a white community not too fond of the future.

Halfway Home: A Father's Story

January 2020 •English

A father exits prison and tries to integrate with his two children and girlfriend while living in a halfway house and on parole.

Séparés mais ensemble

October 2023 •French

Black Angels

September 2022 •Swedish

Sorrow Tamers

February 2022 •Finnish

Sorrow Tamers is a documentary about people who have chosen to face sorrow without avoiding it or running away from it. The film is about love, change, sorrow and abandonment.

Speaking Grief

May 2020 •English

Families from across the U.S. discuss how they cope with loss and address common misconceptions about grief. Through candid personal stories and conversations with experts in the grief field, the film also presents ideas for how family and friends can better support each other through loss.

Symbiosis

Invalid date •Hebrew

A Cremation Day

July 2017 •Thai

When my mom wants to burn all her wedding photos.

A Different Tree

June 2013 •English

An eight-year-old girl tries to build a relationship with her absent father through a class-assigned family tree.

Hundred Acre Wood

Invalid date •English

After a tragedy, a lost boy navigates a mystical forest where he comes face to face with is own fears and trauma.

Family Dinner

December 2022 •English

A family argues at dinner.

500 Miles

Invalid date •English

A broken family is forced to come together when 16 year old Finn and his livewire younger brother Charlie run away from trouble at home in England to reach their estranged grandfather on Ireland’s stunning and wild west coast.