Your search by 'Family Friendly' identified 47 films

As You Were
Denmark, 2012, 24 min.
Lars, about to redeploy to Afghanistan, tries to have an afternoon coffee and cake with his widowed father. But battle lines are drawn the moment he parks his car in the driveway and his father refuses to let him in if he is in his uniform. What should be a few reflective moments between father and ... more

The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist
USA, 2012, 7 min.
Filmmaker Mark Columbus takes an inventive, probing and amusing look at his relationship with his dad, a once famous jazz guitarist from the Fiji Islands, whose career stalled when he moved to the U.S.... more

Bye Bye
France, 2011, 11 min.
The effervescent Nathalie Baye stars in this amusing tale of a single mother who gathers together with her daughters a few days before Christmas and gets a lesson in modern romance.... more

The Contract
USA, 2011, 19 min.
Having promised his wife that he’ll always be there for their son, a young widower confronts a daunting choice when he finds himself a bystander during a convenience store holdup gone wrong.... more

A Crossover
Jordan, 2011, 21 min.
After his father dies, eight-year old Laith argues constantly with his mother and finds himself treading an increasingly lonely path in this poetic and beautifully directed story set in Amman.... more

Deaf Day
France, 2011, 16 min.
A mother and son share a day of idle exploration at a nearby park in Syria, but this is not just any son, and as we learn, it’s not just any mother.... more

Down Here
Portugal, 2011, 11 min.
Emily is moving through a strange and foreign territory but her difficult quest will soon find comfort in the most unlikely of places.... more

Dura Lex
Belgium, 2011, 18 min.
When two detectives show up at Kristi’s house asking lots of questions about her Albanian maid, she has little time to decide what to think, say, and do – and her answers will have major consequences for all concerned.... more

The Father, The Son… and Anna
Luxembourg, 2011, 16 min.
Anna has accompanied her boyfriend, Tom, to his father’s house for dinner. But tensions are high between the two men and Anna provides a suddenly intimate and irresistibly conspiratorial element.... more

First Contact
Australia, 2011, 21 min.
A father and his teenage daughter live in the Australian outback, eking out an existence between research, hunting and School of the Air—the daughter’s only connection to the outside world via a short wave radio. When a nearly dead black man makes his way into their home, he shatters their world wit... more

From Here
Australia, 2011, 9 min.
A late night call from London exposes James’ vulnerability.... more

GABI
Puerto Rico, 2011, 20 min.
Gabi Padilla is that unique, unmarried thirty-something Puerto Rican woman, thriving in her life full of pleasure and independence—until a death in the family calls her back home.... more

The Gruffalo's Child
United Kingdom, 2011, 27 min.
In this follow up to 2010 ShortFest award winner The Gruffalo, one little Gruffalo ignores her father's warnings and tiptoes out into the snow in search of the Big Bad Mouse.... more

Hellion
USA, 2012, 6 min.
Being a single father like Bill is never easy, but when he comes home to find his three sons have set the yard on fire and taped the babysitter to the side of the house, special measures are called for…... more

How Much For My Brother?
United Kingdom, 2011, 15 min.
Oscar, a precocious ten-year-old boy with the time-honored problem of how to get rid of an annoying younger brother, devises a surprising solution. ... more

Intervention
South Korea, 2011, 16 min.
Before being introduced to her boyfriend’s mother, Eun-jin smokes a cigarette for her nervousness. A plain-clothes police officer, upon seeing her throwing away the butt on the ground, prepares to write her a ticket. Scuffles break out, Eun-jin takes off to get herself out of the sticky situation, a... more

Julian
USA, 2011, 40 min.
When a young man named Julian looks straight into the camera and talks about the lure of joining the Marines and the possibility of not returning home, so begins this riveting portrait of a young soldier and his family.... more

Just Before Dawn
France, 2011, 14 min.
With a nod to the French nouvelle vague and a healthy helping of contemporary directorial panache, this headlong rush into the nighttime world of Paris by a young man distraught over his father’s disappearance casts a dazzling and disorienting spell.... more

Maria Magenta
France, 9 min.
On their weekly trip home from lessons, a father and daughter pick up a rather unique companion.... more

Matriarche
France, 2012, 9 min.
In a prison visitor’s room, a mother confronts her son over his part in an epic failed hold-up.... more

Mercy
Poland, 2012, 18 min.
Taking a train ride to a nearby town on the occasion of her daughter’s birthday, a woman takes her daughter to a village church where she shares a strange relationship with the parish priest. This is one birthday that the young girl is not likely to soon forget…... more

The Missing Key
Australia, 2011, 30 min.
In a gloriously imagined 1920s world inhabited by people who have gramophones for heads, young composer Hero Wasabi has left Japan to study musical composition in Venice, accompanied by his oboe-playing cat Jacuzzi. A student of the terrifying Madame Zero, Hero struggles towards his dream of winnin... more

Missing You
USA, 2012, 8 min.
Memories of former visits to a sheltered beach cove come back to haunt a man and a woman, once lovers, who reencounter each other at the cove on the anniversary of one particularly painful day they spent at the seemingly idyllic site. ... more

Monifa
New Zealand, 2011, 12 min.
A young African refugee struggles to adjust to her new life in New Zealand with her adoptive parents. ... more

Overdue
USA, 2011, 9 min.
In this very funny tale, a young couple spends inordinate amounts of time and energy in the weeks leading up to the birth of their first child hoping to induce labor naturally so that they can beat the deadline set by the hospital to impose other means.... more

Paulie
USA, 2012, 11 min.
Paulie is a nine year old in the seventh grade. Used to being the smartest kid in the room Paulie aces every test, wins every spelling bee and science fair, and does not lose. So when bully Tony beats him one day at an essay contest, Paulie refuses to let it go.... more

Portrait of a Family
Colombia, 2011, 16 min.
12 year-old Antonio has one responsibility—his father’s last request was to be buried in the same suit generations of Soto men have been buried in, but the suit is nowhere to be found. So now, on the day of the funeral, Antonio must find his way through a myriad of obstacles to honor his father’s me... more

Private Sun
Palestinian Territories, 2011, 25 min.
Mariam tries to find private moments to sunbathe in the hope of reversing the vitamin D deficiency behind her bone disease. But between nosy neighbors, anoverbearing sister-in-law and Israeli surveillance planes, Palestine’s sunlight is not as accessible as it might seem.... more

The Procession
USA, 2012, 11 min.
Lily Tomlin and Jesse Tyler Ferguson star in this amusing tale about a mother and son, reluctant attendees at her daughter’s friend’s funeral, who get stuck leading a funeral procession when they hop in their car attempting to make a quick getaway.... more

The Return
Kosovo, 2011, 20 min.
A young man, arrested at random during the war in Kosovo and thought dead, returns home from a Serb prison looking for a way back into his life of four years earlier. But the war has touched more than he may know and explanations come hard.... more

Revive
Australia, 2011, 2 min.
A woman keeps being woken up by an insistent alarm clock, succumbing to sleep again after hitting the snooze button… until her young daughter lifts the covers and forces her to awaken for keeps.... more

Rose & Violet
Belgium, 2011, 26 min.
Siamese twin sisters Rose and Violet find themselves in love with the same Circus strongman in this deliriously entertaining animated film about love and togetherness under the big top.... more

Saturday Girls
France, 2011, 15 min.
Eva has had a great night with a great new guy, but when she wakes up alone in his bed the next morning things start to go wonky. Her man is gone, but his little brother Leon is there and as he explains rather matter-of-fact, she’s expected to be his babysitter for the day.... more

Seeing Clara
Austria, 2012, 24 min.
Her grandfather retreats to a fantasy world after a terrible accident befalls young Clara while she is in his care.... more

Shattered Past
Belgium, 2011, 8 min.
Based on a family memoir written in 1975, this striking animated short tells the story of one family’s flight from Russia during the Russian Revolution, and the harrowing train journey they took along the way.... more

Shirin
United Kingdom, 2011, 13 min.
It’s late in the afternoon at the Sadak household in London. Shirin and her father have supper alone. The usual awkwardness of a father and his young adult daughter is increased by the distance her father feels at Shirin’s assimilation into British culture. As they wait for Shirin’s mother, the awkw... more

Small
Netherlands, 2011, 7 min.
When 12-year-old Noortje’s mother takes her to the spa for her first grown-up massage, the blossoming young woman is surprised to find she has a muscular male masseur assigned to her. Taken aback at first, she slowly relaxes under the ministrations of the expert masseur, and in the end, while outw... more

Snow in Paradise
New Zealand, 2012, 8 min.
On remote, picturesque island in the South Pacific, the idyllic tropical splendor is interrupted one fateful day when a huge thunderclap rents the air, and a snow-like substance starts to fall from the sky.... more

The Star
Slovakia, 2012, 19 min.
A Slovakian welder dreams of acting on the stage. When locals decide to mount a theatrical version of “the worst movie of all-time,” Plan 9 From Outer Space, the welder’s improbable dream may finally become a reality.... more

The Ladybug and the Mouse
France, 2011, 11 min.
Lou, a young girl struggling to understand her mother’s frequent absences, finds solace in a pet mouse she’s tamed, who becomes her constant companion.... more

They Also Serve
USA, 2011, 11 min.
After preparing an elaborate Welcome Home party, a mother is shaken when her son decides he cannot face her the day he returns from war.... more

To Give to Receive to Return
Switzerland, 2011, 11 min.
When documentary filmmaker Gabriela Yepes, temporarily based in Zurich, gets stuck on her latest project, she Skypes with her mother in Peru; the result is not only a breakthrough, but a revelation.... more

The Vacuum Kid
USA, 2011, 11 min.
Few things are as unexpected as a 12-year-old boy who collects, dreams about, and can’t wait to use… vacuum cleaners. Meet Kyle Krichbaum, who is not only an extraordinary person, but a thoroughly delightful one as well.... more

The Weight of Emptiness
Canada, 2011, 13 min.
Thomas suffers from strange weightlessness crises. Distressed, his mother takes every means to bring him down to earth.... more

While you were gone
Sweden, 2011, 12 min.
In this gorgeously shot documentary, award-winning filmmaker Frida Kempff follows a man as he faces a life-defining moment.... more

While You Weren't Looking
USA, 2012, 11 min.
The grand adventures of every little kid are wrapped up in one super trip to the grocery store.... more

Worm
United Kingdom, 2012, 16 min.
Grieving Philip and his wife Susie have moved into his late father’s home, the day after the funeral. But when Susie finds a worm in her dragon fruit and insists Philip get rid of it, she sets in motion a series of events that puts the worm in control…and Philip out in the cold. ... more