A film by Ève Lamont Filmed over two years, My Mom’s Co-op reveals a place where, despite the challenges of collective management, 40 families successfully resist the pull of the individual. This intercultural, intergenerational melting pot is the new face of the co-operative movement…
After 20 years of silence about her mother’s suicide and some more or less unsuccessful attempts to come to terms with it, Chantal decides to break the taboo in her family. Without further ado she travels to France with a view to confronting her brothers and her sister with it. The first attempt…
In the 1950s Antoinette Giguère wrote 120 letters, documenting every aspect of family life like a continuous film, seen through her eyes. Using her letters, Antoinette’s fifteenth child, director Serge Giguère, explores the joy and heartbreak of rural, Quebecois working life. My Mother’s…
An eccentric Jewish family is thrown into turmoil when two stolen children reappear after 40 years. Set across five countries, MY MOTHER’S LOST CHILDREN is the story of Melbourne filmmaker Danny Ben-Moshe’s extraordinary family saga. To discover the truth about his two lost siblings Danny…
In the late 1970s, anthropologist Sharon Bell and cinematographer Geoff Burton made three landmark documentaries about village life in Sri Lanka, observed over a two-year period, released in 1980. Decades later their son, Aaron Burton, reconnects with the communities to share experiences and aspirations…
A documentary which takes a candid look at four families and their deep and often conflicting feelings as they deal with the stresses and changes involved in caring for an aging parent. It provides no easy answers, but offers an honest and compelling insight into the need for familes to make individual…
A film by Safina Uberoi. It is no wonder that Safina Uberoi made a film about her family: She has an Indian father who collects kitch calendars, an Australian mother who hangs her knickers out to dry in front of the horrified Indian neighbours, a grandfather who was a self-styled Guru and a fiercely…
My Mother India is a young woman’s journey of cultural exploration and reconciliation within her family. The story travels between cultures and two continents as she comes to understand the different heritages she has inherited through her matriarchal forebears; her India ‘Biji’ and…
«Ich denke jeden Tag an meine Familie, an meine Kinder, an die Zukunft.» Vor zwei Jahren ist Magheswaran Naganathy aus Sri Lanka geflohen. Mit Ratha Sivaramalingam, Puniya Sundarampillai und weiteren rund fünfzig Tamilen lebt er in einem Flüchtlingskamp der Heilsarmee in Zollikofen…
“Every day, I think about my family, my children, and the future.” Two years ago, Magheswaran Naganathy fled Sri Lanka. Along with Ratha Sivaramalingam, Puniya Sundarampillai, and about 50 other Tamils, he now lives in a refugee camp run by the Salvation Army in Zollikofen, close to Bern…
Family Foibles is a series of five half-hour documentaries that examine contemporary Australian families. Each story revolves around a family confronting a problem. These range from the relatively benign issue of omission in the telling of a family history to domestic violence and the threat of family…
Directed, written, filmed and edited by Rustin Thompson Best Documentary/Tacoma Film Festival "Beautifully shot, excellently edited and so raw and personal and tender it held me from start to finish." –Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival "A poignant portrait. The way the…
