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What happens when religiously conservative Christian parents have children who have “become homosexual?” FAMILY FUNDAMENTALS is filmmaker Arthur Dong’s personal attempt to answer that explosive question. Armed with a digital camera, Dong takes viewers into the private and public lives of three families who have responded to gay offspring by actively opposing homosexuality. FAMILY FUNDAMENTALS goes to the heart of today’s debate over homosexuality,...
2) Red Trees
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Award-winning filmmaker Marina Willer creates an impressionistic visual essay as she traces her family’s journey as one of only twelve Jewish families to survive the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. Marina, the granddaughter of noted Czech chemist Vilem Willer, the patriarch of the family during the war, is guided by the memories of her father, Vilem’s son Alfred Willer, who was an adolescent at the time. She reconstructs the life...
3) Father
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A man well-settled into the autumn of his life, Joe Mueller is lovingly supported by his daughter Anne and her husband Bobby, a close-knit family ill-prepared for the dark secrets that are about to be uncovered. Tracked down by Holocaust survivor Iya Zetnick (AFI Award winner Julia Blake, Travelling North) Joe is soon exposed as a concentration camp functionary responsible for murdering her family back in Lithuania. Branded a war criminal and subject...
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Family is everything – but just how far will these two brothers go? Dallas is a successful executive with a beautiful wife and a lovely home. Austin is his younger gay brother who is always in trouble financially and romantically. Each brother thinks the other “has it so good.” By a strange twist of fate, they switch places. The world around them sees no difference. Only Dallas and Austin realize they have switched. What starts off as a serious...
6) Stella: S1
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Starring and created by Gavin and Stacey's Ruth Jones, Stella is a heartwarming comedy drama portraying family life in working class Wales. The fictional town of Pontyberry in the South Wales Valleys is home to Stella Morris - a 40-something divorcee with three kids and an ironing business. Eldest child Luke is in prison. Daughter Emma is 16, gorgeous, lazy and in love whilst Ben, the 13 year old brains of the family, has a natural inquisitiveness...
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In 1979, an Indian family moves to America with hopes of living the American Dream. While their 10-year-old boy Smith falls head-over-heels for the girl next door, his desire to become a "good old boy" propels him further away from his family's ideals than ever before. Official Selection at the **Seattle International Film Festival** and **CAAMFest**. *"A crowd-friendly immigrant's tale painted with a thick coat of '70s nostalgia." - John DeFore,...
8) Suburbia
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SUBURBIA is director Penelope Spheeris's study of the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the early 1980s. Evan and his younger brother leave their broken home in an attempt to escape their alcoholic mother. They fall in with "The Rejected" (aka T.R.), a group of punks who live as squatters in an abandoned home by the side of the highway. With T.R., the boys find a new family. But their newfound family will be tested when they become the target of "Citizens...
9) Stella
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Ruth Jones stars in this heartwarming comedy drama portraying family life in working-class Wales.
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From the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated Ernest & Celestine comes another hilarious, heartwarming tale of animal misfits destined to become a classic.The countryside isn’t always as calm and peaceful as it’s made out to be, and the animals on this farm are particularly strange: a fox who mothers a family of chicks, a rabbit who plays the stork, and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus. If you think life in the country is a walk in the...
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Birthday parties are so much fun: the friends, the family, the games, the gifts, and, of course, the food! But what type of food do you serve at a birthday party when your family is from two different cultures? Young Mikey Yam is having a hard time choosing between the Italian food of his mother’s side and the Chinese cuisine of his dad’s. So, he turns to his grannies, Bahboo and Nonna, for advice.“Ravioli or Dumplings? Linguine or Lo Mein?...
13) Outside The Law
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This **Oscar-nominated** drama tells the story of a family fighting for Algeria's independence from France after World War II. After losing their family home in Algeria, three brothers are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement; Said moves to Paris to make his fortune in the shady clubs and boxing halls of Pigalle. Gradually, their interconnecting...
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Doctor Gemma Foster is a woman in control. She's a talented and respected family doctor at the heart of her village - a woman people can trust and a loving mother. But Doctor Foster's life is about to explode. Suspecting her husband Simon of having an affair, she's determined to get to the truth - but how far is she prepared to go and what other betrayals might she uncover? This complex, gripping and stylish psychological drama comes from the producers...
15) Sewing Woman
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Chronicles the bittersweet journey of one woman’s determination to survive: from an arranged marriage in old China to working class comforts in modern America. Produced in 1982 and Oscar®-nominated for Best Short Documentary, this classic film continues to screen widely and is now treasured by a new generation of film goers.SEWING WOMAN is based on a series of oral histories and the life story of the filmmaker’s mother, Zem Ping Dong, an immigrant...
16) Doctor Foster
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Doctor Gemma Foster is a woman in control. She's a talented and respected family doctor at the heart of her village - a woman people can trust and a loving mother. But Doctor Foster's life is about to explode. Suspecting her husband Simon of having an affair, she's determined to get to the truth - but how far is she prepared to go and what other betrayals might she uncover? This complex, gripping and stylish psychological drama comes from the producers...
17) Stella: S2
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40-something mum Stella continues to juggle the ups and downs of family life amid the chaos of her eccentric friends, relatives and children's fathers.
18) The Breadwinner
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A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
19) Mustang
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This **Oscar**-nominated drama follows five free-spirited sisters in a Turkish village. While playing innocent games with their friends, a neighbor passes by and reports what she considers to be illicit behavior to the girls' family. The family overreacts, removing all "instruments of corruption," like cell phones and computers, and essentially imprisoning the girls, subjecting them to endless lessons in housework in preparation for them to become...
20) Benediction
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The story of English poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon in his quest for personal salvation through family, writing, and his closeted relationships.
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