Family S O S With Jo F

A documentary about a rehabilitation center for addicts with drug addiction, gambling addiction and alcoholism.

An animated tale of how a family moved to Taiwan over a 5000 year journey.

A dark and disturbing film about the perception of right or wrong and how love is a hard bond to break. This is a film about people who could be your friends. Your neighbors. Your family and the secrets they may hold. Who really knows what happens behind closed doors..

Film by Joel Benjamin

Two degenerate laid-off Pennsylvania steel mill workers go on a drug-fueled day across their small town. The two get into many altercations with the local people that end in madness, chaos, and violence. They eventually make it home, only to have more crazy times for their family home evening.

Artist/Director Mary Jo Bole mines an eccentric inherited archive in order to trace her family tree, which includes both Cleveland industrialist magnates and immigrant factory workers. Bole’s relating artwork, spanning decades, provides a thread that points to the unexpected ways in which these relatives and their memento mori endure.

When Brendan turns 18, he reaches out to his biological father for the first time in hopes of joining the family business, The Mob.

In 1964, Lynn was one of 14 black students who integrated West High School in Knoxville, Tennessee. During this difficult time in his life, there was one man who always made him feel safe and supported—his father, Ted Weaver—who worked as a janitor and chauffeur. At StoryCorps, Lynn talked to his daughter, Kimberly, about a lesson he learned from his father that extended beyond the classroom. [Overview Courtesy of StoryCorps]

Emily Pritchard is determined to let the dead lie, but they have different intentions. At her estranged parent’s wake, Emily must confront the ghosts of her past when her parents are brought back from the grave to capture the perfect family portrait, whatever it takes.

At Schous Plass in Oslo a very diverse group of ping-pong players regularly meet to play and to hang out. Some of the players have liberal views on drugs. As the city government threatens to remove the tables, the community fights back.

The personal journey of a family that comes together through conflict and difficult times, after finding out their father is gay later in life. Mike, along with his mother and siblings, must confront this new reality as well as their struggles on the path to acceptance.

Whether on land, in fresh water, or in the sea, tortoises, terrapins, and turtles have an advantage. Nature has blessed them with a protective shell that locks out interference and danger.

Sometimes you get more than you bargained for.

When a Norwegian woman meets her Ghanaian boyfriend's family for the first time things quickly escalate into the most awkward dinner in history,

Edda, a parrot-woman hybrid, and former circus performer, struggles to deal with her daughter's new found embarrassment of her freakish family.

A family celebrating Christmas in an isolated cabin in the woods hears a knock at the door. A woman pleads for help, saying her son has gone missing, and soon regret their offer of shelter from the snow storm.

An exploration of the lifestyles of fundamentalist Christian American families across America.

In a television first, Fat Family Tree sets out to prove that unlocking the secrets of a fat family’s genes can help provide the answer to their lifelong weight problems. Presented by Dr Dawn Harper (Embarrassing Bodies), Fat Family Tree uses cutting edge genetics to decode the genes of an overweight family for whom all other attempts to shed the pounds have not worked. Discovering how the family’s genes have put them at risk of excessive weight gain is the first step to devising a diet to help them beat their genes. Based on the latest science, the programme’s “gene-busting” diet also promises fail safe diet tips that could help all of us lose weight.