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When Eva’s mother unexpectedly dies, the life of Eva turns out to be built on secrets and lies. The fear of losing her mind, just like her father who has been living in a mental facility for many years, becomes more and more of a threat, propelling Eva on a quest into her past to face her demons.

As she nears the age of 30, Rina still tries to find, with some difficulty, a path to becoming a film director. This year her father Richard, who she misses dearly, sends his favorite animal and Chinese zodiac sign, the tiger, to silently listen and follow his daughter through her unsteady sound of life. Through the medium of film, we distantly imagine what the world was like in the 1950s, when he himself was 30.

During the Second World War, Japanese film editor Chounosuke Ise made numerous propaganda films in Japanese-occupied Indonesia. Their purpose was to justify Japan’s hegemony in Asia, claiming liberation of these countries from colonialism. Chounosuke Ise’s son, filmmaker Shin-ichi Ise, traces the path taken by his father, who barely spoke about the war or Indonesia, and was seemingly reluctant to discuss what he had done there.

Got, a young and energetic racing man who hates his father. There is a reason for him to warp back in the year 1998, just a year before he was born, Got met his young father when he was Godfather.

Hanna's world turns upside down when her dad, the priest, reveals that he wants to be a woman.

The father tends his large garden with the utmost precision. The mother irons shirts and regrets that the father never wears T-shirts. The father likes order, always knows best, and has everything under control. The mother prays and talks of her loneliness. The two are fundamentally different, have opposing views and interests, and have been married for 62 years. Closely knit yet poles apart: this is the ambivalent standpoint from which Peter Liechti turns his lens on his elderly parents and the story of their marriage. Alongside conversations that shift from slapstick to insanity and observations of daily life in his parents’ cramped, lower middle class apartment, a puppet theatre is also established as a second location. This forms the stage for scenes between mother and father to be reenacted by rabbit puppets; as a puppet, the son can also react in explosive fashion.

In this StoryCorps short, Kiamichi-tet Williams sits down with his dad, Thompson Williams, to learn more about his larger-than-life grandfather.

At 31, Glen Small, visionary architect and founder of the internationally acclaimed Southern California Institute of Architecture [SCI-ARC], was a rising star. At 61, he can barely pay his bills. When the estranged Glen bequeaths his daughter Lucia with the task of writing his biography, she answers instead with a provocative film about his precarious career and thorny private life.

After receiving the news that his father, whom he has not spoken to for five years, has cancer, Orkun goes to his father's home with his older sister Elif to take care of his father. The beginning of the treatment is also the beginning of the family's reckoning, and Orkun's camera records this process. A family autobiography accompanied by death, My Father's Air Bed.

George, an agoraphobic young woman, cannot go more than 522 steps away from her home. One day, a personal tragedy forces her to embark on a journey from Spain to her native Portugal. Along the way, George's whole world begins to widen…

Elvira, a confident Sámi teenager, firmly believes that her lesbian single mother conceived her at a Danish fertility clinic. She often daydreams about her father, envisioning him as a charismatic movie star. However, her world is turned upside down when her real biological father unexpectedly steps into her life.

The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein is a 1992 short animated documentary directed by Joyce Borenstein about her father, the Canadian painter Sam Borenstein. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. In Canada, it was named best short documentary at the 12th Genie Awards.

Quan, a gardener with an outstanding talent for "killing girls", suddenly one day had to shoulder the "falling debt" from his ex-girlfriend. With the help of Tam Manh's "three effective seven parts, seven troubles", Quan gradually lost all hope of finding the baby's mother and gradually became the perfect father in Baby Rabbit's eyes. The colorful lives and laughter of father and son are put to great test when the mother that Baby Rabbit has been waiting for day and night finally appears...

After his wife's sudden death, a man takes care of his son living with a disability with help from a new employee at his struggling factory.

Polo is 16 and has all the worries of a teenager his age. Between a bedridden mother and a sister who dreams of being a Miss, the only one he can look up to is his father. Unfortunately, he works as a maid ...

Alatha's father calls himself a Mover. Using African dance moves, he helps kids in Khayelitsha township to transcend their hardship (drugs, poverty and abuse) and "find their superpowers." The Mover is also a single father. And while he has helped many kids, he still has difficulty getting his own daughter to find her own powers. But in a tender moment together, this is all about to change.

A teenager wandering around the city after the death of his father.

An old man's spirits are lifted greatly when he finds that his new personal nurse is a spectacularly beautiful, volcanically sexy young woman.

Rebooting the Three Mile Island nuclear incident of 1979, MY FATHER, THE OLD HORSE chronicles an unforgettable hunting trip made worse by father-son tensions and a terrible secret with serious repercussions. In a shorter version, the film won "Best Undergraduate Film" at Temple University's Diamond Screen Film Festival where it served as Max Einhorn's thesis film project. We hope you enjoy our "novella sized short," with a running time of 41 minutes- the equivalent to watching one of your favorite hour long network dramas, commercial-free, on-demand.