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Caterina Calendino
Bianca
Rosaria Mascellaro
Carmen
In every family, there is a guiding force, the Murabi. This Odia feature film explores the collision and convergence of two contrasting philosophies: one rooted in discipline and control, the other in joy and freedom. As life brings these worlds together, the story unfolds into a heartwarming journey that challenges, inspires, and ultimately redefines the true meaning of family, love, and togetherness.
After the loss of their mother, a dysfunctional family is pressed to re-examine their lives. As father and children come to terms with their own existence, this journey turns into a tender and subtle meditation on grief.
Amidst the wreckage of loss, a soul struggles with the devastation left in their wake, grappling with the irreversible impact of their actions and the destruction they can't escape.
Beren is a young girl preparing for her university entrance exams. After returning from a camp she attended, Beren suddenly falls ill. At this time, her father Salih is abroad for work, and her stepmother Nurdan, who loves her like her own daughter, calls her brother Doğu to stay with them, thinking it will be good for her. However, shortly after Doğu and his wife Nergis arrive, events unfold that will deeply affect everyone's lives. Because Beren has become physically and psychologically ill due to a spell cast on her.
David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks with her "ghost" on the beach at night. While David lives in the past, other family problems crop up in the present in the real world....
A mother's perception of reality is altered forever when her son decides to leave the family home.
Mountains silhouetted at dawn. Wind rustling through the tall grass. A woman carries a chair across mountains. Where to?
The film begins 41 days after the untimely death of Malini's husband. As Malini grapples with her grief and the sympathy of those around her, the film weaves through past and present, gradually revealing the dark, abusive realities of her marriage that were hidden behind closed doors. Through disjointed memories and unsettling flashbacks, viewers are left to question the blurred lines between the victim and perpetrator.
Amal (Aziza Amir), a young widow with two toddlers, loses her husband Riyad. His brother Mokhtar (Hussein Fawzi) returns from abroad and marries her by his mother's request, agreeing to live as siblings to raise his brother's children in Cairo. Unspoken love grows, but after a drunken night at his friend Sadiq's (Stephan Rosti) party, Mokhtar sleeps with Amal and, consumed by guilt, moves out and takes a job in Sudan. Amal discovers she is pregnant. Her mother-in-law prevents an abortion and she gives birth to Osman. Two years later Mokhtar returns, takes the boy, divorces Amal, and leaves Egypt. Years later, Hassan is an accountant, Huda (Badriya Raafat) a fashion designer, and Osman (Abdel Salam Al-Nabulsi) an engineer. Engaged to Hayat (Assia Dagher), Osman returns to Egypt and meets Huda while shopping for a wedding dress — unaware she is both his cousin and his sister.
In 'Give Time its Due,' Beatriz seeks solace in therapy for her loneliness and pain after a loss. In this journey of self-acceptance and healing, she discovers the power of expression and human connection.
The true love between a couple living in a village.
Dani and Michael, two down-on-their-luck filmmakers, decide to craft and film their own independent movie despite their tumultuous lives begging them to give up their passions.
Set in West Virginia during the 2014 Elk River chemical spill, a first-generation college student clashes with her family while investigating a bizarre issue with their water supply.
Dominique, a shy and introverted teenager, wants just one thing: to become the best hockey player in her league. Her father, acting as her personal trainer, expects no less. But when she secures a coveted trophy, whose win is it?
A man who works as a driver for Dinesh, a smuggler who likes helping the poor, abandons him upon learning his truth. However, he is soon killed by a group of criminals.
Ieva is facing the day of her grandmother's funeral, but her goal of saying goodbye to her grandmother is complicated by the domestic problems of such processions and the growing distance between Ieva and her mother.
In 1982 the guilt-ridden 18-year-old Rupert tries to remember and understand the events of the past amidst the chaos of the present.
When tragedy strikes a vain and materialistic housewife, she is forced to re-evaluate her lifestyle and vows to put her privilege to good use by seeking out the right person to inherit her wealth under the guise of an elderly woman who needs assistance cleaning her home.
Jake Taylor has everything. He has a beautiful girl, he's the champion in basketball and beer pong, and everyone loves him. Then, an old childhood friend of his commits suicide. Jake wonders what he could've done to save his friend's life. A youth minister tells him that Jake needs God. So Jake becomes a Christian. However, things begin to spin out of control. Jake is going to realize just what it means to be a Christian and how, to save a life.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach, tragedy strucks.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
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.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
Following the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix.
A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.
When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the beginning of a new life for them.
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
