Weight

A woman goes through a series of daydreams in her car while encountering a familiar face.

The Decision

A film about the divorce decision and its impact on the children.

Whirlpool

An ex-convict tries to connect with the daughter who doesn't even know he exists.

Kid

A rising music producer lands a career-defining record deal with everything on the line — but as the deadline looms, so does the risk of losing his family. Caught between chasing his dreams and the chaos at home, he must choose what matters most before it all falls apart.

El Colibrí

A young girl repairs a treasured wooden hummingbird, her late mother's last gift, bringing hope and healing to her grieving father.

Deserter

A desperate woman who can no longer support her elderly mother with dementia takes her for one last drive.

Brief aan mijn vader

Wilting at the Roots

After the passing of his wife, a lonely newspaper editor discovers Berenalin: a medication that promises to put an end to his grief. Its effects begin to drive a wedge between him and his daughter, who needs him more than ever.

The Visit

THE VISIT is an intimate stop-motion short film about a young girl’s growing-up years and her relationship with her incarcerated father.

Leylak

In present-day Queens, a Turkish gravedigger is unable to face a shattering truth and risks losing the dearest connection left in his life.

Out of Focus

Following the recent loss of his father, an adolescent boy struggles with his life, while also having to deal with the constant beratement from his family, spiraling him into a pit of unhappiness that has dire consequences.

Techno, Mama

Nikita loves to listen to techno music and dreams to go to Berlin and visit the famous club “Berghain”. His mother Irena doesn’t know about his son’s dreams and soon enough their mutual expectations will clash.

Bruised

When suspicious bruising is found on Lisa's son, Bobby, she is forced to confront her own childhood trauma to prevent him from being taken by a well-meaning social worker.

Memoriam

A short personal story touching on the impact parents have on their children and how it can reflect them in the future. Filmed, Written and Directed by Chris Villafuerte

Stampede

After a difficult separation, Serge Jr. takes his daughter Lily, 9, on a truck ride across Canada. They head to Alberta and its legendary Badlands World’s Best Truck Rodeo, a race Lily and him have been dreaming about. On the road, under his daughter’s increasingly worried gaze, Serge will eventually need to face the music.

Survived By

A newly orphaned kid dodging the foster care system spends a magical evening with a sock puppet hoping to unpack her complicated relationship with her father days after his death.

4 FACES

Long Gone Day

When a young family man runs into financial trouble, he takes a risky job with his criminal brother.

Long Live Love!

A story about a party-animal Sati, a man whose attitude has left a broken family at home. Meta, his wife, is preparing to leave him. At age 15, his daughter, Namo is already jaded from a lifetime of broken promises.

My Life

A young man who struggles with the fact of losing his father, comes to terms with what is real and who is really there to support him.

Mustang

In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.

The Glass Castle

A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.

What Maisie Knew

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

The Kingdom

Lesia, a teenager, is taken by a man to a villa where her fugitive father and his men are hiding. A war erupts, leading to death and a chase where father and daughter bond.

Broken

Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.

Good Boy

Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.

Butterfly on a Wheel

A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

Back Home

The prodigal son of a family in turmoil returns home to his French rural home to reconnect with his family and make sense of their dysfunctions.

Skin

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

Light of My Life

Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.

My Father's Shadow

Two young brothers explore Lagos with their estranged father during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis, witnessing both the city's magnitude and their father's daily struggles as political unrest threatens their journey home.

Stillwater

Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

Close Enemies

Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay…

Fathers and Daughters

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

Damage

An ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the most unlikely of places.

Sweet Girl

A man vows to bring justice to those responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.

Unbreakable

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

Brother

Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide. He then plunges into a brutal universe of which he does not know the rules.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

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.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.