Streaming Home Is Somewhere

What happens to people when they are violently displaced? Forced out of their home and ancestral village, buffeted by winds of hate, running for their lives, scattered like human debris in relief camps. Never able to return. How do they rebuild new homes and new lives, with hearts unable to leave the old one behind? This film is about survivors of Muzaffarnagar, a town in north India, where targetted violence in 2013 forced over 60,000 people to flee their homes in fear. Many could never return. An estimated 60 people were killed, and 40 more died later in the relief camps - mostly children who perished from cold and sickness in a bitter winter. The Colour of My Home is about rebuilding broken lives. It is about the scars that hate and violence leave on the human soul. It is about memory and loss. It is also about the spirit to survive.

The film tells about a young man named Sergei, who lives an ordinary measured life. Suddenly, strange visions begin to visit him, the meaning of which he cannot understand. To his surprise, some of these visions soon begin to come true. Neither the young man, nor his relatives and friends are ready to accept what is beginning to happen around him. Soon Sergei will have to find out the essence of these phenomena, reconsider his views on the world around him and realize what is the true meaning of our unpredictable, mysterious, and sometimes frightening life ...

On a steaming hot day, a mother and her son leave their home. The mother loses her ID card as well as her senses. But her son can't understand why his mom is behaving like such a child after losing her card. They keep fighting on the street under the hot boiling sun on the way to the district office.

Of my parents exactly one video tape remained. I found it after almost 20 years and I realized: My sister and me never have talked about our loss. We grew up with our grandparents in a Russian-German ghetto somewhere in rural Germany. I want to know what she feels. And I want her to know what I feel.

A documentary film tells the true story of the locals in southern of Thailand through the life of 4 families that live in different provinces, but hand and share their kindness to one another. The reality of their life is arranged into the story disclosing beautiful sides of the southern of Thailand and changing the point of view about the violence that's been happened in the area.

A documentary composed by home movies shot between 1959 and 1974 by the avant-garde composer Luigi Nono and his wife Nuria Schönberg

Resentment rages between two sisters, one of whom was indirectly responsible for her husband's death and the other who secretly loved him.

On the morning of 10 March 2020 all Italians woke up in quarantine. Io Resto a Casa ("I Stay Home") depicts the filmmaker's first 14 days of the Italian lockdown, without ever leaving the house, made entirely on the web through the stories of five Youtubers and dozens of videos and photographs made and shared all over Italy. Fourteen days of fears, hopes, enthusiasm, boredom, normality and extraordinariness. Fourteen days that we will always remember.

A retired carpenter waits for his family's visit, but they don't show up. The gardener of the home he lives in, offers him a lift home; but when he gets there, a surprise puts his memories in check.

Having suffered the loss of their plane, three pilots inexplicably find themselves stranded in the middle of the desert. While following the perilous and unpredictable course that will ultimately lead them home, they fall prey to visions and must confront the siren call of their own strange fantasies. With Pilots on the Way Home, Priit and Olga Pärn (Divers in the Rain) have created a new, satirical meditation on male-female relations. The film tackles masculinity and the male psyche with the same pointed sense of the absurd that has marked Priit Pärn's previous films. Pilots on the Way Home is also a journey through time and space, and to the universal sources of artistic eroticism. Olga Pärn is a master of the art of animating sand, giving Priit Pärn's unique line drawings a warm and subtle texture reminiscent of etching. Her work is perfectly matched to the impassioned beats of this tale. - Written by NFB

In autumn 2019, at the peak of the anti-extradition law amendment bill movement, Yung and Yin meet on the streets. After the arrest of Yung, Yin finds herself in the awkward situation of visiting Yung’s home for the first time. Meeting the parents, Yin has to skip the usual polite chatter and put away Yung’s items before the court warrant arrives. In this austere and awkward first meeting, they talk about the absent son. The long night drags on as the shocked and worried parents are overwhelmed by the opposing political views, by relationships torn and healed, by their hopes and regrets. When dawn comes, what will become of Yung?

A Lao American young man, James, brings his father’s ashes to Laos to fulfill his last wish – to return home. His mom keeps telling him to stay away from the relatives in a village to avoid being asked for money. He stays in a city until a stupa to house his father’s ashes is built. One day, Jame’s relative, Joi, travels to town to look for him. They have to travel together on the mighty Mekong and endure each other’s differences.

Jia-ling got notified of her father’s passing due to the COVID, and she returns to Taipei from abroad to take care of the funeral matters. Chen Hsiung is an old man living alone with mild dementia, who mistakes Jia-ling as his married daughter. In the congregate housing shrouded by the pandemic, they found the long lost feeling of accompanying, even just for some brief moment.

Gary and Tom are father and son - and both deaf. They are on holiday, hitchhiking on motorway services to head South. For Gary, it's all very exciting, but Tom wishes they could be driving like everybody else.

In an unfair country women work day and night far from home while their children learn to survive between loneliness and emptiness. They grow to become teenagers, locked down in one of many low income neighborhoods made up of identical small houses, outlined by overcrowding and scarcity. Their mothers, mostly workers in transnational factories, go in and out in buses that take them to a work place where they carry out twelve hour shifts two hours away from home, while their children muddle through their upbringing in tiny houses of 40 square meters. In spite of everything, they look for a way to move ahead and chase their illusions. This is a story full of youthful aspirations set in a context of difficulties and shortages.

At the foot of a mountain, there is a one-hundred-year-old house. Closely connected with each other, four women decide to become a real family there. In their capable hands, they build a home for women in this once deserted house.

Sankar wants to get married to Meena, but her mother puts up a condition that Ajay will have to stay in their house after the marriage. Sankar's family gets disappointed with her decision.

Religious imagery in Curado I, a small neighbourhood in the northeast of Brazil.

A heartwarming story about an old man who adopts two orphans. The three make a living by performing puppet shows and acrobatics on the streets.

Documentary about two children who have been directly affected by wars in their respective countries. Six-year-old Murtaza took a landmine home to play with and it blew up in his hand, a familiar story in Afghanistan where one child is killed or injured every day by unexploded munitions. Fifteen-year-old Yagoub suffers from rheumatic heart disease, which if left untreated is life-threatening. Refugees from Sudan's 20 years of unrest, his family are unable to pay for treatment at the local hospital, giving him little more than six months to live. This moving film follows the stories of these two resilient boys and the efforts of the remarkable Italian NGO Emergency to give them back their futures. (Storyville)