Your request: “family”

“If I really am a Freedom Fighter, the freedom I have won is the worst failure of my life” -- Srbijanka Turajlić (my mother) A locked door inside a Belgrade apartment has kept one family separated from their past for over 70 years. As the lmmaker begins an intimate conversation with her mother, t...

Next to Rennes men's prison, as next to almost all the prisons in France, there's a Family Support Centre for the prisoners' families. Visitors go there before and after a visit. They come back, every week, sometimes three times a week. They wait. It is a space of its own. Visiting is time consuming...

Critically-acclaimed filmmaker Marc Isaacs paints a rich portrait of multicultural life in the UK by looking at the lives of immigrants living along the A5, one of Britain's longest and oldest roads. Stretching from London to the Welsh coast, the road has always been an important lifeline for new ém...

Vincent, Claire and Sophie Dragon are siblings, born of different biological parents and strongly linked to their foster family by a feeling of belonging. Not yet in their thirties, they are questioning this link within a reconstructed family: What do we inherit, what do we pass on, what is our iden...

He was not of my family, at least not of the blood related type. He was just my best friend and had always been standing by my side. On a bad day in February, even though we had planned to meet for lunch, he never showed up…...

At ninety-one years of age, Aimé has decided to fulfil his dream journey to Morocco that he’s been planning for 40 years. His director/photographer grandson travels with him. A journey both tender and bitter, filled with missed opportunities and fleeting pleasures. Like life itself....

A small village of Normandy is getting ready to welcome a new family without knowing who they are. The mayor is totally in favor, the local sheriff fears for his tranquility, others get all exited by their new welcoming mission whilst the youngest observe amused how the elders may be disturbed. Time...

Juan, the film director, is Ecuadorian, his partner, Francisca, is Cuban. They live in Paris where their two children were born, just like Juan 30 years earlier. By switching back and forward from past to present, between the history of a family across 3 generations and that of a whole continent, th...

A Syrian refugee couple, Ahmad and Jihane, tell the story of their exile to Sweden to their youngest daughter Sally. They recount their journey as migrants being smuggled across borders, evoke memories of their beloved Syria, and talk of the violence which is present at all times... Ahmad and Jihane...

In the town of Zinder in Niger, in the poor area of Kara-Kara which used to be the lepers’ district, a culture of gang violence reigns. A group of youths is trying to break free from this violence, some are trying to start a family and make a life for themselves rather than end up in prison. Aicha M...