Film Categories: Families

  • Missing

    A young boy uses creative tactics to gain the attention of his busy family.

  • my I’s

    “my I’s” is a visual journey through time, space, and memories of the filmmaker from her childhood to the present. Not parting with her Super 8 camera for four years, she accumulated a variety of images from different parts of the world and from different times of the year. She then combined these images with home movie footage of herself and her mother. Pruska-Oldenhof’s childhood memories of Sunday afternoon walks with her mother – to a park, a field or a castle – and seeing the world through her mother’s eyes has shaped her mind and even her filmic eye.…

  • Passengers

    Evocative, passionate and poetic, this film is a compelling and moving exploration of the relationship between a daughter and her father as she matures from childhood to adulthood. On the day of his funeral, she draws on the legacy of his love, understanding, and compassion, and comes to term with her sexual identity.

  • Contretemps of Christmas

    It’s Christmas day and festivities are underway in the Porkloin household. Mother’s holiday fever runs high, the ill-advised gifts have been opened, but the biggest gift still remains. . . In the spirit of demented fairy tale, this microfilm explores a darker side of the holidays.

  • Fable: I Want the World, Clean

    “Todd’s poetic documentary excavates the history of a family home that has been passed down five generations. It uncovers a sort of violence done in the course of carving up the land and trying to purify one’s family histories.” – Chris Gehman, Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, 2001

  • Coming to Terms

    Damian sinks into desperation as he realizes that both he and his family have an arduous journey ahead if they are to heal old wounds and come to terms with his dawning sexuality.

  • Chosen Family, The

    Families, whether chosen or biological, have a single aim – to drive us nuts, as this astute and comic film demonstrates.

  • Subrosa

    “Subrosa” traces a young woman’s journey to Korea, the land of her birth, to find the mother she’s never known. This exquisitely crafted drama probes the idealized, often false constructions of cultural and maternal identities wrought by the adoptee’s return. “Subrosa” tracks the unnamed heroine from a sterile adoption agency office to seedy bars and motel rooms on neon strips, then to a stark U.S. army camp town and the bustling flower markets of Seoul. Though her path to self-destruction and ultimate self-revelation ironically and tragically mirrors that of her imagined biological mother, the past remains elusive to her, the…

  • Phone Comes to Jammu, A

    When her relatives in India finally gets a phone, a young woman contemplates how this “new” technology will narrow or widen the gap between her lesbian diasporic self and her relatives overseas. Does easy access guarantee closeness?

  • Missing Piece, The

    Something has always been missing in Robert’s life and he is determined to find out the truth. Risking his relationship with his adoptive parents and family, he sets forth to find his biological heritage. If he is successful this will not be the end of his journey, but the beginning.