The horror of Jen's teenage past catches up with her when she takes her autistic son to a birthday party in her hometown.
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Angus Imrie
Alan
Lydia Rose Bewley
Bryony
Callie Cooke
Jen
Rebekah Murrell
Katie
There is peace in the forest and among all of the animals there, including a pair of ducks who befriend Molly Moo-Cow. A pair of hunters come on the scene, go hunting and hurt the ducks, so it's Molly to the rescue.
Three women from three different social, economic, and ethnic groups discuss their lives in polygamous household.
Four women, four cities, four unflinching stories—this powerful omnibus film weaves together the struggles of women across Indonesia, from a midwife battling corruption to a teenager caught in betrayal, a mother fighting for her child, and a widow facing the harsh truth of survival.
Silent short (with music and inter-titles) telling an old Indonesian folk tale of a princess who ends up married to a dog.
A seventeen year old girl who has lived all her life on an island off the coast of Ireland is faced with the choice to remain there or emigrate to America.
Ruby and Garnet are identical twins, ten years old and inseparable. Since their mother's death they live with father and grandmother in the big city. When one day attractive Rose steps into father's life, Ruby and Garnet's whole life is turned upside down. They must leave their beloved granny and move to the countryside with father and that much hated "new one" because father wants to fulfill his most ardent dream to open a bookstore.
Charles Chinaski is a guy with many problems and feels responsible for most of them: women, alcohol, his hostility towards certain groups of people. One day, he decides to consult the first doctor he comes across.
While a seemingly picture-perfect suburban family enjoys breakfast together, an omniscient narrator reveals their repressed inner thoughts and secrets…all just moments before a nuclear bomb is dropped on the family.
Jonathan is poised to marry the daughter of a wealthy tycoon. The couple appears picture perfect, until the eve of their engagement party, when an unexpected guest threatens to destroy Jonathan's plans for the future.
Meike and Ursula are planning to start a family. They arrange for a donor to help them. Meike is excited and ready. But is Ursula?
As Isyak and his daughter Maya face the ups and downs of life, from losing a job to battling illness and the loss of hearing, their strong bond reveals the enduring power of love and family to carry them through the toughest times.
Haunted by a strange pain in her side whose cause she cannot explain, a young woman examines her body and the possible causes of her increasingly severe illness. Only a friend, a doctor and a florist helped her.
When a polyamorous trio seems to be living its peaceful everyday life, the arrival of a girl is ready to upset their balance and change their destinies forever.
A 16-year-old girl, bored with her own age group, becomes involved with an older man at a theater she passes.
A delicate exploration of the highs and lows of intimacy between Leila and Ibrahim, a loving couple, as they deliberate the difficult decisions surrounding conception and parenthood.
Adapted from the short story " Let's play a game " by the Italian writer Alberto Moravia . It's a strange story between a little girl and her divorced mother They are playing a game and the girl starts to persuade the mother, to provoke her curiosity . The adult woman gets stunned , She finds herself talking and hearing as if she becomes possessed by another one It is a moment where both of them exchange their authorities, unearth many of closed secrets.
INTERVENE is a surreal, hypnogogic parable about an unstable young man whose family feeds his madness by staging religious visions.
Set on the Isle of Wight, Anthony and Kyle share a special relationship, but each must grapple with his own responsibilities and decisions in this poetic short that explores the intimate and often unspoken moment in which we give something precious away.
When his dancer partner, Mia, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest.
The trials and tribulations of putting a feature film together.
Corinne is a single mother of twin 5-year-old boys, Steven and Phillip, who are diagnosed with autism. Public school officials threaten to remove them from school due to their behavior, but through therapy, the boys are able to make major strides in their capabilities. A decade later, teens Steven and Phillip seek to prove they can handle high school while still struggling with their disorder.
A teenage con artist tricks a desperate mother into hiring her as a live-in companion for her autistic daughter.
Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Eric, her autistic next door neighbor. Eric has a fascination with flight, and as the story progresses, he exerts an enthralling force of change on all those around him.
Stand-up comedian Max Bernal lives with his father Stan while struggling to co-parent his autistic son Ezra with his ex-wife. When forced to confront difficult decisions about their son's future, Max and Ezra embark on a cross-country road trip that has a transcendent impact on both their lives.
Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a baby, Agnes still lives in the New England house they once shared as graduate students, now working as a professor at her alma mater. A ‘bad thing’ happened to Agnes a few years ago and, since then, despite her best efforts, life hasn’t gotten back on track.
A mentally ill young woman finds love with an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
In the wake of a school tragedy, Vada, Mia and Quinton form a unique and dynamic bond as they navigate the never linear, often confusing journey to heal in a world that feels forever changed.
When Ruth Matthews's husband is killed in a fall at an archaeological dig, her daughter Sally handles her father's death in a very odd manner. As Sally's condition worsens, Ruth takes her to see Jake, an expert in childhood autism. Jake attempts to bring Sally out of her mental disarray through traditional therapy methods, but Ruth takes a different route. She risks her own sanity by attempting to enter her daughter's mind and make sense of the seemingly bizarre things that Sally does, including building a wondrous house of cards
Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic odyssey back home.
When Scott and Teresa LeRette learn that their son Austin is both autistic and has brittle bone disease, they initially worry for their son’s future. But with Scott’s growing faith and Austin’s incredible spirit, they become 'unbreakable', finding joy, gratitude, and courage even in the most trying times.
Sam, an aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, weighs whether to join the search for Brooke, a missing teenage girl she used to nanny. As she fights to recover from her trauma and return to the stage, memories of her deep bond with Brooke rush back—making it impossible to ignore her disappearance.
Marlo, a mother of three, including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant at first, she quickly forms a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging nanny named Tully.
The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.
A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.
Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
Thomas is turning 16. His dad's in the army and they've just moved to a town in New South Wales; his mom is pregnant; his older brother, Charlie, who's autistic, has his own adolescent sexual issues. Thomas finds Charlie an embarrassment in public, so when Thomas is attracted to Jackie, a girl in his swim class, Charlie presents any number of obstacles when she drops by their house, when the three of them go for a walk, and during a family birthday dinner. Can Thomas find a way to enter the world of teen romance and still be his brother's keeper, or is Charlie's disability going to prove more than Thomas can handle?
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Matilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, fail to see that fact. As time passes, she finally starts school and has a kind teacher, loyal friends, and a terrifying, sadistic headmistress. As she becomes fed up with the constant cruelty, she discovers she has a special gift that she just might be able to use to outwit the unruly adults around her.
