Search results: Family

Family Matters (Girsa Deyankuta)

Family Matters (Girsa Deyankuta) With their parents' divorce, a family is divided between the two conflicting worlds: that of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and of the secular
Family Affair

Family Affair At 10 years old, Chico Colvard accidentally shot his older sister in the leg. This seemingly random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities and shattered his family.
Family Matters (Mishpuche)

Family Matters (Mishpuche) A single hetrosexual woman teams up with a gay couple to form an alternative family cell.
I’m Doing My Job

I’m Doing My Job I’m Doing My Job follows 6 young, female South Asian & Black emergency medical physicians’ lives throughout the pandemic in NYC.
Born Free: Birth in America

Born Free: Birth in America If birth and pregnancy are a lens on how society values its women, why has it become a fight that American women are losing?
The Partisan with the Leica Camera

The Partisan with the Leica Camera A frightened look of a woman, from a rare self-portrait of a couple, leads the director to a shocking family story.
The Artist’s Daughter

The Artist’s Daughter A visit to her father's exhibition of self-portraits renews the filmmaker’s relationship with him but not the way she expected.
Herd

Herd Ten year old Naama deals with a big philosophical question regarding life and death
Working on her father's ranch, that raises cattle for slaughter, makes her question the meaning of life"
Housewitz

Housewitz In HOUSEWITZ, daughter and filmmaker Oeke Hoogendijk tries to find out the reason behind her mother’s categorically refusal to leave her house.
Marry Me However

Marry Me However The film explores the lives Orthodox-Jewish LGBT members who willingly choose to marry heterosexuals and raise a heteronormative family, obeying the rules of their societies while denying their own identities
Holy Holocaust

Holy Holocaust An unusual friendship between a white Israeli woman and a black German, who for 22 years believed that they could rise above historical, political, and geographical obstacles, until it explodes right in their sarcastic faces.
To Cure Longing

To Cure Longing At the age of 30, the filmmaker travels to Russia, along with his father, to meet his grandmother - a journey that will change his life.
Holding it In

Holding it In The story of a family who become a surrogate family for a couple that has lost all hope of having children.
Anxious Nation

Anxious Nation It started in 2019 with a single post on Facebook: "Kids and Anxiety, who is dealing with it?" Anxious Nation looks deeply into the crisis of anxiety and mental health in America, especially its crippling impact on kids and families
Bad Axe

Bad Axe A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump's rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive
A House Made of Splinters

A House Made of Splinters In this poignant and deeply intimate documentary 3 kids temporarily removed from their parents find friendship and flickers of hope inside the worn walls of a remarkable orphanage in Eastern Ukraine, as a group of dedicated social-workers create moments of joy and respite
Resilience (nl)

Resilience (nl) A one-hour documentary that delves into the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the birth of a new movement to treat and prevent toxic stress
Chasing Childhood

Chasing Childhood All work and no play is no way for kids to grow up.
Flee

Flee Amin had an extraordinary child refugee journey from Afghanistan. He is facing a painful secret he kept hidden for 20 years, threatening to derail his life and his soon-to-be husband
Against the Tides

Against the Tides A woman’s ambition, to swim all seven of the world’s most harrowing sea channels in a single year, tests both her athletic limits and her personal relationships
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time The life and insights of author Kurt Vonnegut
How to Say Silence

How to Say Silence An old photograph launches a cross-generational journey, revealing how national values were enlisted in early-days Israel for the patriarchal control over women’s bodies and wombs. With her grandmothers’ painful stories, the director breaks the bond of silence.
Ma’abarot – The Israeli Transfer Camps The film “Ma’abarot” is the first documentary project unfolding the story of the transit camps in a thorough and comprehensive way, unraveling the many stories of the camp residents.
Clean Hands

Clean Hands What happens when your wildest dreams come true? From living on a garbage dump, a philanthropist builds them a house and farm. Shot over the course of seven years, ‘Clean Hands’ is an award-winning account of family, extreme poverty and the hope and innocence of children.
The World Beyond Silence

The World Beyond Silence Filmed over a year in twelve different locations, this film profiles the year when everything changed. Stories of hope, despair, and a feeling that everyone has had to face: the sense of our own mortality. Twelve intimate portraits from twelve places in a fragile world.
On the Line

On the Line Every year, over 100,000 Mexicans living in the USA are deported. Many have grown up in America. Some can’t even speak Spanish. In a matter of days they are torn away from their loved ones and escorted across the border. Unable to return home or appeal their deportation.
Shadow Game

Shadow Game Every day teenagers who have fled their war-torn countries try to cross Europe’s borders in search of a better life. They travel through a shadow world of minefields, bears, fast-flowing rivers, smugglers and border guards, desperately trying to win 'the game’.
Allen v. Farrow

Allen v. Farrow A look behind the years of sensational headlines to reveal the private story of the accusation of sexual abuse against Woody Allen involving his 7-year-old daughter with Mia Farrow.
Wake Up

Wake Up Stories from the frontlines of suicide prevention
RUTH – Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words The improbable story of how Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who couldn’t get a job after graduating at the top of her law class, became a revered Justice of the Supreme Court and icon for gender equality and human rights
Oh La La Pauline!

Oh La La Pauline! It starts out like a fairy tale: there's a queen, a king and their beautiful children, Pauline, Anaïs and Guillaume. But it's a bit more complicated, a little more funky than that
Almost There

Almost There Three men who embark on a journey in search of meaning and happiness in the autumn of their lives.
Golden Age

Golden Age Old age can still be fun - and a good business, too!
Reunited

Reunited Having fled from Syria two doctors and their kids get separated
Journey to Utopia

Journey to Utopia A Norwegian family preoccupied by the global climate crisis decides to be the change they want to see in the world and move to an eco village in Denmark.
Idomeni

Idomeni Up, close and personal: a different look at how families are torn apart in war, and reunite in peace.
Duma

Duma An inner perspective into the phenomena of sexual abuse in Palestinian society
Once Upon a Boy

Once Upon a Boy The film gives us a rare and intimate view of family life, while navigating the universal experiences of a family, which have a unique experience of raising a child with special needs
Covered Up

Covered Up A personal journey by Rachel, an ultra-Orthodox director, through marriage, divorce, matchmaking, and head covering, records the world of ultra-Orthodox women and gives voice to their inner world for the first time
Under the Boardwalk: The MONOPOLY Story A classic board game that has been played by over a billion people in the last 85 years, MONOPOLY® is a worldwide cultural phenomenon. "Under the Boardwalk" captures fascinating stories about the game and those who play it
Voices from El Sayed

Voices from El Sayed El Sayed village has the highest percentage of deaf in the world. Deafness is accepted as one’s fate. Allowing modern medical technology of Cochlear Implant to change the destiny of 3 years’ old Muhammed challenges tradition in this conservative community
My Fathers, my Mother and Me

My Fathers, my Mother and Me Growing up in the infamous Freidrichshof commune, Paul-Julien Robert looks at what the nature of family is
Una Primavera

Una Primavera A daughter follows her mother with a camera on a personal journey through domestic violence, leading them both between the contradictions of family.
Are You Sleeping, Brother Jakob?

Are You Sleeping, Brother Jakob? A film about both farewells and reunion
Midsummer in Newtown

Midsummer in Newtown A show of strength. An act of courage.
Bedlam

Bedlam An Intimate Journey Into America's Mental Health Crisis
Resilience

Resilience A one-hour documentary that delves into the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the birth of a new movement to treat and prevent toxic stress
Most Likely to Succeed

Most Likely to Succeed A Provocative Look at the Future of Education
Where We Belong

Where We Belong Two separate worlds emerge from what once was considered a unity.
The World According to Sesame Street

The World According to Sesame Street The World According To Sesame Street explores the drama, challenges, and rewarding outcome as dedicated Sesame producers and local producers bring to life the world’s most watched children’s television program in Bangladesh, Kosovo and South Africa.
Mamacita

Mamacita Mamacita is the story of a Mexican matriarch who blows her family history wide open in a surprising documentary by her grandson.
Foster

Foster Every Child Needs A Family
House Call – Vika

House Call – Vika We follow the medical team aiding Vika, a single mother with cancer, during her final days.
Oleg and the War

Oleg and the War Follow 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg, who learns to navigate his childhood through the war.
Congo in 4 Acts

Congo in 4 Acts A quartet of powerful, hard-hitting short films that lay bare the disturbing reality of everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Broken Places

Broken Places “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Wall

Wall Filmmaker Moran Ifergan, takes us on a year-long journey into the women's section of prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, as she remembers the religion she left in her late teens.
America to Me

America to Me Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Steve James examines racial, economic and class issues in contemporary American education in the multipart unscripted documentary series. Witness it through their eyes.
That Which I Love Destroys Me

That Which I Love Destroys Me An uncensored look at the current epidemic of PTSD and severe mental trauma that create tremendous challenges for returning service members.
The Distant Barking of Dogs

The Distant Barking of Dogs This Peabody award winning film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war.
Far from the Tree

Far from the Tree From The New York Times best seller and "10 Best Books" Honoree Andrew Solomon
Allah in Europe

Allah in Europe What is the future of Islam in Europe? How hopeful can we be of an European, enlightened version of Islam, and will it be possible to overcome the Europeans’ distrust of Islam?
Jaha’s Promise

Jaha’s Promise A documentary about the life and activism of Jaha Dukureh, a Gambian anti-female genital mutilation campaigner who returns to her country of birth to confront the harmful tradition that she and 200 million women and girls have undergone globally.
Race to Nowhere

Race to Nowhere Featuring the heartbreaking stories of students across the country who have been pushed to the brink by over-scheduling, over-testing and the relentless pressure to achieve, “Race to Nowhere” points to a silent epidemic in our schools.
Not Alone

Not Alone In a world that is so connected, why do we feel so alone? Jacqueline Monetta asks teens to share their struggles with mental illness and suicide.
Family Matters (Girsa Deyankuta)

Family Matters (Girsa Deyankuta) With their parents' divorce, a family is divided between the two conflicting worlds: that of Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and of the secular
Into the North

Into the North A coming-of-age story of young Czech Jewish refugees who were saved by Danish farmers during the WWII.
Torn

Torn Can one be a Catholic priest and an Observant Jew at the same time? 12 years after he was ordained as a Polish Catholic priest, Romuald Waszkinel discovers that he was born to Jewish parents, and that his name was Jacob Weksler.
Café Nagler

Café Nagler During the 1920s, Café Nagler was the hottest place in Berlin. Mor, the film's director embarks on a journey to find out what's left of her family's legendary café.
World Class Kids

World Class Kids "An Arab, a Jew, a Chinese, and a Philippine walk to school ..." It sounds like the beginning of an old joke, but instead these are some of the second-grade pupils attending an elementary school in the heart of Tel Aviv.
A Brave Heart

A Brave Heart Following the inspiring journey of 26 year old, 58 pound Lizzie Velasquez from cyber-bullying victim to anti-bullying activist.
The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia

The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia How can dyslexia, a persistent problem with learning to read, be as great a gift as it is an obstacle?
Life, Animated

Life, Animated A documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams based on a book by Pulitzer Prize winning writer Ron Suskind.
White Rage

White Rage The story of Lauri, and the story of other victims of school bullying and other childhood trauma: victims full of white rage, which may lead to extreme acts of violence such as school shootings.
A Match Made in Heaven

A Match Made in Heaven For the first time, orthodox Israeli Jews allow a camera to enter their personal lives on an intimate level, enabling us to discover the practice and belief which guides their approach to marriage and "dating".
Leaving Africa

Leaving Africa A film about the quest for gender equality in Africa, told through the eyes of a Finish Aid worker in Uganga experiencing homophobic blackmail.
Berlin for Beginners – A Roma Home Movie Humor, chutzpah and solidarity against poverty and exclusion: members of the Velcu family from Faţa Luncii, Romania, move to Berlin and begin performing the future they want for themselves.
Breathing Underwater

Breathing Underwater Women of the sea have to hold their breath to survive. The documentary reveals a closed community of women whose lives are bound to the oceans surrounding them.
Thank You For Playing

Thank You For Playing How can a video game address the universal complexity of grief? THANK YOU FOR PLAYING explores how the fusion of art and technology can document profound human experiences in the modern age.
I Am Kuba

I Am Kuba A coming-of-age film, following Kuba, a twelve-year-old boy from Poland who is left to take care of his little brother Mikołaj (8) after their parents are forced to leave them to work abroad.
Trapped

Trapped With U.S. abortion clinics are fighting to survive, what remains of a woman's right to choose?
3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets

3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets 3½ MINUTES: TEN BULLETS dissects the aftermath of the murder of 17-year-old Jordan Davis and the trial of Michael Dunn who, in 2012, shot him repeatedly at a Florida gas station for playing his music too loudly.
Children of the State

Children of the State How did 500'000 Russian orphans became the victims of international political power games?
Family Affair

Family Affair At 10 years old, Chico Colvard accidentally shot his older sister in the leg. This seemingly random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities and shattered his family.
The Crash Reel

The Crash Reel The Mind Has Mountains. Kevin Pearce is an unforgettable athlete with a comeback story with a difference.
Budrus

Budrus It takes a village to unite the most divided people on earth. Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to confront a threat.
A Place At The Table

A Place At The Table One nation. Underfed. Examining the issue of hunger in America through the lens of three people struggling with food insecurity.
American Promise

American Promise Success is our only option. Spanning 12 years in the lives of two middle class black families sending their sons to a prestigious Manhattan private school.
Connected

Connected An Autoblogography about Love, Death, and Technology. This is an exhilarating rollercoaster ride to discover what it means to be connected in the 21st century.
Like The Others

Like The Others A rare insight into daily life at a child and adolescent psychiatric centre. We meet dedicated therapists, parents and patients with very different problems.
The Look of Silence

The Look of Silence In this highly-anticipated companion to The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer offers another haunting look at the Indonesian genocide, this time from the perspective of the victims.
Karla’s Arrival

Karla’s Arrival Teenager Sujeylin Aguilar raises her newborn daughter Karla on the same streets she has been calling home for the past eight years. Mother and baby struggle to reach the little one’s first birthday.
Life Sentences

Life Sentences An Arab man marries a Jewish woman and they live in quiet harmony within the Arab-Jewish community with their son and daughter. The family unit is broken when they discover that their Arab father is behind dozens of terror attacks.
Israel LTD

Israel LTD “The Israel Experience" is one of the largest Zionist outreach projects in recent years, with the aim to create new allies for the government of Israel. To this end, it takes young Jews on guided tours of the “Holy Land”.
My Barefoot Friend

My Barefoot Friend Shallim is a rickshaw puller, an ordinary man with an old and tired rickshaw. He runs endless miles with it each day to allow him to support his family.
Poisoned

Poisoned A character driven film, following four Israeli boys from their high school graduation and deep into the army service. At the age of 18 they will all become the property of the national army.
Fortunate Son

Fortunate Son Over a decade ago, the filmmaker fell into a deep hole of drug use and nearly destroyed himself. Emerging clean but fragile, he remained isolated from his family for years. Recently he discovered how this shattered his parents' lives.
The Al-Mahdi Scouts

The Al-Mahdi Scouts The Al-Mahdi scouts are Shiite Muslims. An Islamic community, originally from southern Lebanon, who follows the prophet Mohamed and his descendants and whose lives are affected by the Israeli-Arab conflict.
Open Heart

Open Heart Eight Rwandan children leave their families behind to embark on a life or death journey seeking high-risk but potentially life-saving heart surgery in Sudan.
To See If I’m Smiling

To See If I’m Smiling Female soldiers provide a personal account of their experiences in the Israeli Army, the only one to conscript women for mandatory military service.
Brides of Allah

Brides of Allah Israeli director Natalie Assouline chronicles the lives of women who are serving time in prison for involvement in terrorist attacks in Israel.
50 Years! Of Love?

50 Years! Of Love? What is it like to be married for 50 years? An honest look at marriage beyond the honeymoon and the "happily ever after" cliches.
Dolls. A Woman from Damascus

Dolls. A Woman from Damascus In a traditional Damascene milieu, Manal is challenged to cherish her excellence as a housewife. Still, she insists on chasing a personal dream of getting back to work.
The Vanishing Spring Light

The Vanishing Spring Light Documenting the parallel decline of the ageing matriarch Grandma Jiang and the old neighborhood where she grew up – set to disappear under the inexorable forward march of gentrification.
Where is my Son?

Where is my Son? 'Hyo' is a Korean word meaning filial duty. It is a term rarely used these days, as traditional family values are rapidly changing.
My Thai Bride

My Thai Bride A personal and touching insight into the phenomenon of older western men marrying young Thai women.
State of Play

State of Play Top video game players in South Korea can earn hundreds of thousands. But what happens to these young men's lives when play becomes work?
Char… the No Man’s Island

Char… the No Man’s Island Rubel is a fourteen year old boy smuggling rice from India to Bangladesh, crossing the river Ganga which acts as an international border between the two countries.
Blush of Fruit

Blush of Fruit Tong Phuoc Phuc, has been praised as an anti-abortionist and a saviour to ‘fallen’ Vietnamese women and their unwanted children. With rumours of child abuse and profiteering, does this home offer the safe-haven which these women expect?
The Good Son

The Good Son The unbelievable story of 22 year old Or, who secretly finances his sex change operation in Thailand and then returns home as a woman to face her new life, her family and the cost of living her dream.
Powder

Powder Four generations, three funerals, two wars and a boyfriend waiting in Tel Aviv: in a tragic-comic clash between the filmmaker and the habit of obedience.
White Black Boy

White Black Boy In Tanzania, albinos are threatened by witch doctors who use their body parts to create magic potions. For their own protection, albino children are sent to boarding schools, far away from their families.
Lone Twin

Lone Twin At the age of 20, director Anna Van der Wee lost her twin brother. By investigating the bond between twins, she hopes to understand what it means to be a twin, and what one looses when one of them dies.
Gypsy Davy

Gypsy Davy When a blond Californian with Alabama roots becomes a Flamenco guitarist in Andalucian boots, fathering five children to five different women, what happens along the way and behind the scenes?
9 Years Later

9 Years Later A mother who converted from Islam to Judaism returns to Morocco from her new home in Israel to re-connect with her son who she hasn't seen for 9 years.
A Hebrew Lesson

A Hebrew Lesson A group of immigrants from all over the world come together in their Hebrew lessons, as they learn how to negotiate a new language, culture, and way of life.
Maori Boy Genius

Maori Boy Genius Two cultures collide in the life of Ngaa, a young Maori boy who displays a prodigious talent for politics and the aptitude to become a leader of tomorrow.
Teacher Irena

Teacher Irena Facing her own struggles as a widow in a new country, Irena turns her energies to address the struggles of others: her 26 third grade students growing up in one of the toughest neighbourhoods in Jerusalem.
Family Matters (Mishpuche)

Family Matters (Mishpuche) A single hetrosexual woman teams up with a gay couple to form an alternative family cell.
The Cemetery Club

The Cemetery Club For over two decades, a group of women and men have been meeting weekly at Israel’s National Cemetery to debate philosophy, read poetry, eat lunch and determine the fate of the Jewish nation.

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