Movies: Parents

Noo Lek, a kindergarten teacher, decides to form a tug-of-war team and hires a football coach to train the young students. The coach, having never worked with children before, realizes victory isn't everything with kids and learns a few lessons himse...

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Thirteen-year-old David Kealoha dreams of escaping rural Hawaii. But when Jonah Morris, a white kid from Phoenix, Arizona moves into the neighborhood, tragedy strikes, irrevocably changing the trajectory of David’s life and those closest to him....

A simplistically rendered girl screams and cries, and her environment changes to reflect her thoughts and mood....

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A girl coping with the stresses of life finds her escape through music as she enters a dreamy world called Musicscape....

A heartwarming comedy of parents using a computer for the first time to communicate with their son in America....

A Charles Bukowski poem is put to animation. Four kids who are friends are drawn to a strange house that their parents tell them to avoid. One day they see a man of about 30 step outside, cigar and whiskey bottle in hand. He becomes a symbol for them...

When Gabi and Gerd find out that they are going to be parents in less than nine months, they can hardly believe their luck. A dream that finally came true after so many failed attempts. What follows are more than eight wonderful years in which they l...

Jimmy learns to appreciate his parents when a hand puppet dressed as a jester visits him up in the middle of the night and renders him invisible....

When they were children, Claire and Andrea would play Mary Worth (An old game where you say her name into a mirror three times). However, they could never muster the courage to say Mary's name the third time. Now curious and bored teenagers, they dec...

The story of a family, told through their hands....

Achyut Shankar, a plus two student, wants to be a cricketer, but his father has already chalked out a career in medicine for him. While fighting parental pressure from his strict parents, this young boy gets involved in an incident....

Two unique perspectives on the city of Liverpool come from interviews with the director's parents....

The Sunrise. A Baby breaks the silence....

Their last dinner before he leaves to join the Army. The reality of the situation begins to break in through the four surrounding walls....

Unable to have kids, Nick an ex-con and Maryann a hard core christian, resort to the extreme to become parents. They kidnap a woman going in for an abortion and force her to have her baby for them....

When life doesn’t go to plan, twin sisters come home to rediscover who they are—and reimagine what’s possible....

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Exploring the director’s father’s chronic health problems, as a diabetic with kidney failure, and his mother’s role as his eternal caretaker, Chilly and Milly is a combination of 3D-modeled/composited characters, with cinéma vérité scenes from an aut...