Whether growing up or growing old, familial relationships are ever-evolving – especially intergenerationally! Packed with the complicated impacts of parenting, this program pulls focus on the observations of offspring as they explore the effects of these beloved bonds.

Revisiting a family album and an opportune trip leads to a revelation.

A ver ponte ahí

A young Vietnamese girl idolizes her mother and follows her beauty routine, until her mother unexpectedly gets a surgery.

Oink

AN EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY FEATURING FOUND FOOTAGE
FROM A SUPER 8MM FILM MY GREAT UNCLE MADE FROM
1969-1971

Parental Orbit

A personal account of the Covid-19 pandemic in America and its effects on an immigrant family as seen through the eyes of a student quarantined at his barren university.

This is closest to how the last weeks of March felt like

On a long-awaited trip to their mother's childhood home in North Dakota, the filmmaker and their mom explore feelings of loss, guilt, and joy on returning home.

desiderium.

When polar opposite sisters reunite for their grandparents' wedding anniversary, Nur is in charge of the dinner, but all eyes seem to fixate on Karina, despite Nur's best efforts to conform to her family's expectations. In the middle of numpeng (a dinner ritual) Karina starts itching and blames Nur for putting garlic in her food. Their grandmother, the matriarch of the family, stokes the tensions, sending them soaring past the boiling point. The skeletons lingering in the closet join the family at the dinner table as the two sisters grapple for the affection of their grandmother, and their mother does her best to diffuse the volatile situation.

Bawang Merah Bawang Putih

A dance of death between a mother and daughter ignites when the daughter attempts to install a new stove in her mother's house in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland.

Dún Laoghaire

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The National Film Festival for Talented Youth - 16th Anniversary Edition

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