Titles tagged "family"

The (Dead Mothers) Club

The (Dead Mothers) Club tells the story of three women- a Southern artist redefining herself through her art; a high school senior struggling to gain independence; and a Brazilian living in NY, navigating first-time motherhood – all of whom lost their mothers during adolescence.

Food Patriots

Touched by their teenage son’s battle with a food-borne superbug, filmmakers Jeff & Jennifer Spitz document their family’s struggle to raise backyard chickens, grow food, and transform into Food Patriots. Food Patriots features people from all walks of life who are trying to change the way Americans eat and buy food, and educate the next generation of consumers.

High Five

HIGH FIVE is a story of international adoption unlike any other. Cathy and Martin Ward travel to rural Ukraine to try and adopt five brothers and sisters, who become separated when only the adoption of the two middle sisters goes through. When a year later the kids are re-united, Yuliya, the oldest girl, cannot find her place in a new family.

Mimi and Dona

​What happens when love runs out of time? For a 92-year-old mother, Mimi, who has cared 64 years for her daughter, Dona, who has an intellectual disability, it means facing the inevitable -- she will not outlive her daughter -- and finding her daughter a home. This poignant, heartbreaking and, at times, humorous documentary traces this process through the story of a wonderfully quirky and deeply connected mother-daughter duo.

My Own Man

​David is about to become a father and he's terrified. How can he bring his son into manhood if he feels like he hasn’t arrived himself? He tries various methods of tapping into his masculinity, but all roads lead back to the complicated relationship with his own father. My Own Man is a funny and original look into the timeless tug of war between fathers and sons, and a moving story about the transformative power of forgiveness.

Raising Renee

Emmy nominated RAISING RENEE is about artist Beverly McIver and the promise she made to her mother that she would take care of her older sister Renee, who is mentally disabled. The promise comes due just as Beverly's career is blasting off. Directed by Oscar nominees Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher, RAISING RENEE is intimate, humorous and candid.

Sweet Old World

The relationship between Brian and his teenage son Ethan has grown cold and strained in the years since Ethan’s brother Michael was killed in an accident, and now they find themselves on the brink of disaster when Michael’s best friend Jimmie returns. Jimmie’s a wild kid who may or may not have been responsible for Michael’s death, and when he befriends Ethan it sends both father and son down a dangerous road.

The Zigzag Kid

Starring Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet, Death Becomes Her, Enemy)  THE ZIGZAG KID is a whimsical, witty, and action-­packed adventure about an almost-­thirteen-­year-­old boy named Nono and his world of confusions, fears and fantasies. Nono longs to be a good detective like his father, a famous police inspector, but his wild nature constantly gets him into trouble. Two days before his bar mitzvah, he is sent off to his uncle's to be disciplined yet again.

Remittance

When Marie takes a job as a maid in Singapore to support her family in the Philippines, she trades one set of hardships for another. Betrayed by her husband, she begins to build a new life for herself. As she gets caught up in the new life she is building in Singapore, she is forced to choose between her personal aspirations and family responsibilities back home.

The State of Marriage

The State of Marriage is the epic story of how legal legend Mary Bonauto partnered with small-town Vermont lawyers Beth Robinson and Susan Murray in a 2-decade struggle that built the foundation for the entire marriage equality movement. The Hollywood Reporter said, “The State of Marriage is an indispensable addition to the history of the marriage equality movement and a suspenseful nail-biter right up to the feel good ending.”

Family Portrait in Black and White

​Family Portrait in Black and White follows a passionate Supermom, Olga Nenya, during three turbulent years that see her brood of 17 foster children grow into rambunctious teenagers. Olga is a loving mother but she is no Mother Teresa. Raised by the Soviet regime, she believes in communal responsibility over individual freedom and runs the family with a Stalinist determination.

The Guys Next Door

Who, among us, can say that we come from a “normal” family? The Guys Next Door, a feature length documentary, offers an alternative to the traditional ideas of what constitute the nuclear American family. Meet Erik and Sandro, a gay couple with two daughters birthed by their friend Rachel with donor eggs. In her 40s, Rachel is  married to Tony and they have three biological children of their own.

I Am Breathing

I Am Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. Neil Platt ponders the last months of his life. Within a year, he goes from being a healthy young father to becoming completely paralyzed 1from the neck down. As his body gets weaker, his perspective on life changes.

Mitt

In 2006, Mitt Romney decides to run for president of the United States. In the days before the 2008 presidential election, he seeks to win debates against John McCain and the other Republican Party presidential candidates. After he loses the Republican nomination, he returns in 2012 to challenge incumbent Barack Obama for the White House. Meanwhile, his wife is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and he worries about disappointing his supporters and family if he loses.

Remittance

When Marie takes a job as a maid in Singapore to support her family in the Philippines, she trades one set of hardships for another. Betrayed by her husband, she begins to build a new life for herself. As she gets caught up in the new life she is building in Singapore, she is forced to choose between her personal aspirations and family responsibilities back home. 

No Way Out But One

Holly Collins came to the family court of Minnesota with the intention of bringing charges of domestic violence against her ex-husband. The courts response was not to come to her aid, but instead to grant full custody of her children to her and her children’s abuser. In 1994, Holly Collins became an international fugitive when she ignored the court’s ruling, grabbed her three children, and went on the run from her abusive ex-husband.

Fatherhood Dreams

Many if not most people are apprehensive or fearful-about gay men raising children, especially without women in the picture. “Fatherhood Dreams” gives the issue a human face, involving us in the personal lives of four gay men who have always wanted to be dads. Meet Randy and Drew, a married gay couple who adopted a baby boy; Stephen, who co-parents two daughters with a lesbian couple; and Scott, a single gay man, who, through surrogacy, is preparing to welcome his twins into the world.

The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

With her world in turmoil, Janet (Lee Remick) feels she is losing so much that’s important to her: her beloved mother (Angela Lansbury), the family business, and maybe even her husband. Janet dreams of simpler times, of Christmas in the idyllic Vermont of her younger days, and of taking her children back to the family home where her parents and spinster aunt (Polly Holliday) would be waiting for them.

Little White Lie

​Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz’s story of growing up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity — despite the open questions from those around her about how a white girl could have such dark skin. She believes her family’s explanation that her looks were inherited from her dark-skinned Sicilian grandfather. But when her parents abruptly split, her gut starts to tell her something different.

Mully

Mully is no ordinary rags-to-riches tale.  It’s the true story of Charles Mully, whose unlikely stratospheric rise to wealth and power leaves him questioning his own existence, searching for meaning in life. Against the better judgment of family and community, Mully sets out to enrich the fate of orphaned children across Kenya.

Penton: The John Penton Story

"Penton: The John Penton Story" is an American story about family, competition, ingenuity and business that will tug at hearts of everyone who sees it. John Penton is a motorcycle icon and pioneer whose life on a farm in Ohio led to a long list of motorcycling accomplishments and global notoriety. What began with a humble motorcycle shop, turned into international off-road racing career leading him to the discovery of the need for a smaller machine, which he was soon selling in the U.S.

Ruthie and Connie

​Set in working class Jewish Brooklyn — RUTHIE AND CONNIE follows two very funny, if rather traditional housewives. Like many young women in the 1950s, they got married. Then, like many young women in the 1970s, they got divorced. Unlike most, however, they both left their husbands for another woman: each other. 

This Time Next Year

This Time Next Year tracks the resilience of the Long Beach Island, NJ community for one year as they rebuild after 2012’s Hurricane Sandy. Using a mixture of verité, first-person accounts, and the residents’ own footage This Time Next Year is a poetic documentation of a shore community as they battle local politics, cope with personal tragedy, and band together in the face of transition.

Twinsters

Imagine seeing someone on YouTube who looks just like you. After some digging on Facebook, you find out this person lives on the other side of the world but was born on your birthday. Could there be another YOU out there? That's how French adoptee Anaïs Bordier met American adoptee Samantha Futerman. Captured on camera as it happened and made into an award-winning documentary, Twinsters tells a remarkable true story of identity and journey into sisterhood.