After the funeral of a parent, Surya, a gay Muslim man, has to choose between coming out and staying in the closet when his mother wants to fix their broken relationship.
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The people behind it
Kurnia Alexander
Surya
Vonny Anggraini
Mother
Rizal Iwan
Father
Unlike Gi-hoon, who is happy running a noodle shop with his mother in their hometown, Ji-eun distances herself from her family due to her ambition to succeed as an idol singer. The siblings, who have been hurting each other more than showing love, find their conflict deepening with the news of their mother's Alzheimer's, whom they thought would stay young forever.
Aileen’s ex-husband refuses to elaborate on their eight-year-old son’s fight in school, so she secretly takes her son out for a day of activities to learn the truth. As she reconnects with him, his presence inevitably forces her to confront her own losses as a mother, which reveals her struggles to accept his new family situation.
Nicolò, 24, returns home after 7 years. Through a path made of affections and memories his love story with Claudio and the reason for his escape will come back to him.
Xe and Y cross paths by chance at the door of a café, in a meeting that feels as if it were written by fate. Between them, something is born that is as fleeting as it is universal — that rare instant when we recognize someone even before knowing who they are. Revois follows this encounter that could belong to any of us and that, perhaps — just perhaps — asks to happen again.”
Two strangers visit the penthouse of a recently deceased lover, only to find themselves learning more about each other.
When fifteen-year-old Bram meets Florian at a house party, he immediately falls for him. There's only one problem: nobody knows Bram is gay.
Damian, a young boy raised by a single mother, believes that his father is a famous footballer playing for Glasgow Celtic F.C. His dream is to visit him. In his everyday life he has difficulty finding a common language with his mother who is trying to make a new life for herself with a younger man.
A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon.
A book-smart teenager joins his school's wrestling team as a way to reunite his surviving family members, who split apart after the death of his father, a college wrestling legend, 10 years ago.
When his mother relapses, Oliver is forced to go look for his younger brother in the world of crime throughout the night.
A short film that's a collection of intimate moments from queer people's lives. The short moves through the different types of intimacy one experiences, familial, personal, platonic, romantic, sexual, medical and the intimacy of recognition between strangers in the community.
In-gyu has intellectual disability. His mother, Ae-soon, takes care of him, nagging him all the time. One day, she is diagnosed with terminal cancer and prepares for her son's independence.
Single mom Flora is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max. Her efforts to keep him out of trouble lead to a beat-up acoustic guitar, a washed-up LA musician, and harmony for this frayed Dublin family.
After accumulating struggles and experiencing a whirlwind of personal and family issues, *Calvin* breaks down in a crisis of tears and anxiety, releasing his deepest fears in the middle of the square around DECOM. *Júnior*, who is retaking the same course subject as him, witnesses the scene and, in an act of empathy, tries to support his classmate. This leads to the blossoming of affections, care, and mutual trust, unfolding into a simple journey of discoveries that sparks new hopes for an urgent change in both their lives.
A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.
Photographer Dong is planning a photo exhibition, but he has no photographs that he is proud of. His grandmother call him falsely claiming that she was ill and needed Dong to come home. It turned out that his mother had been released from prison that day. Dong spent his childhood in the mockery of his classmates and was full of resentment against his mother. After going through a struggle in dealing with his relationship with his mother, Dong experienced the missing maternal love for the first time and recorded the whole process with his camera.
What would you do if only after the death of your husband, or your father, or your best friend, you found out that he had loved another man? “Tempo Rubato” is a story about two grieving processes—Ravi’s, who lost his first love to police violence, and Dora and Edu’s, who lost their husband and father, respectively. Tiago, Ravi’s childhood friend, visits his family after the funeral and brings with him two boxes full of videos that Ravi recorded throughout his youth, including a farewell video-letter to his family, in which he confesses the secret he kept his entire life.
1918. World War I rages in Europe while Erna Jensen tends to her ordinary life at home in Bramstrup, with her simple-minded son, Kalle. One day the village constable comes to enlist Kalle for military service for the German Empire – of which Southern Jutland is a part. If Erna is to save Kalle from certain death, she must follow him through thick and thin. Upon a chance meeting with a deserting solder she trades identities. Now disguised as Private Julius Rasmussen, Erna heads for the front. In her encounters with the other soldiers and in the presence of the war, unknown sides of Erna are awoken. This is the story of a woman who won’t let a war prevent her from fighting for what she loves.
Dorian realizes he is gay in his final year of high school. He meets another gay youth locally, but remains confused. He starts therapy, then resorts to confession in the Church, and finally comes out to his brother. Dorian then decides to come out to his father; he gets kicked out of the house.
A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.
Inspired by a true story, this film tells the shocking tale of a mother and daughter who are nothing like they seem, their tumultuous relationship ending in a brutal murder.
Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly bond.
While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarries, Jo's only support becomes her friend Geoffrey, a homosexual.
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
In the 1990s, an immigrant single mother raises her teenage son in the Canadian suburbs, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind in South Korea.
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle travels to Russia in seeking the help of a world-renowned fertility physician who Isabelle believes can help bring back her little girl.
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic, well-respected member of a local gang, whose drug dealing enables “Rash” to provide for his family. Aching to be seen as a tough guy himself, Mo takes a job that unlocks a fateful turn of events and forces the brothers to confront their inner demons. It turns out that hate is easy. It is love and understanding that take real courage.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids, and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.
An intimate portrayal of the relationship between one of greatest artists of the 20th century, L.S. Lowry and his unhappy and controlling mother, Elizabeth, whom he lived with all his life.
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.