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Alice in the Meantime
Singapore, 2010, 7 min.
A mother would love her little boy to stay little forever, but everyone has to grow up sometime.... more
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Any Little Thing
Israel, 2010, 12 min.
All a father wants to do is visit his daughter, although the journey seems vastly more difficult.... more
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Banana Bread
USA, 2009, 9 min.
Matt Meyerson has a worried Jewish mother. In this case, she actually has good reason to worry as he heads out the door for another typical day on the job.... more
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Blind Eye
United Kingdom, 2009, 6 min.
A mother's protective instincts are put to the true test when she witnesses a bewildering confrontation on a bus while taking her young daughter to school one day. When does one's public duty override the maternal instinct for personal safety?... more
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Caretaker
Taiwan, 2010, 8 min.
Rising economic tides and shifting cultural norms mean someone else is taking care of mom.... more
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Cheveu
France, 2010, 17 min.
Philip is going bald, so he heads back to the perfect source for information: his father.... more
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Chicken Heads
Palestinian Territories, 2009, 15 min.
A young Bedouin boy's pet gazelle kills his father's prize sheep, setting the stage for an exotic moral tale about personal responsibility and self respect.... more
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Family Jewels
USA, 2009, 21 min.
A mother, also a soldier, spends the eve of her deployment to Afghanistan at odds with her desires and the demands now placed upon her.... more
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Franswa Sharl
Australia, 2009, 14 min.
The annual family holiday in Fiji takes a new twist when 12-year-old Greg finds a ready-made venue for his special talents.... more
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Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must Be More to Life
Canada, 2010, 25 min.
Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker, Spike Jonze and Jackie Burroughs lend their voices to this delightful animated short based on a Maurice Sendak story about a terrier who has everything a dog could ever wish for, but leaves home in search of something more.... more
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I'm Ready
Israel, 16 min.
Established routine plays a critical role in this moving relationship between an elderly father and his son.... more
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Las Pelotas
Switzerland, 2009, 14 min.
Proud fathers Chato and Lopez love their soccer-playing sons, but when recruiters tell them the kids aren't talented enough, the two men come up with a plan to create the perfect athlete.... more
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The Lost Thing
Australia, 2010, 15 min.
A boy finds a strange and delightful creature on the beach.... more
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A Moth in Spring
Canada, 2010, 26 min.
Filmmaker Yu Gu returns to her hometown of Chongqing in China where she grew up to shoot a student film. What she encounters is a chilling deja vu experience of the political forces that caused her artist father to be exiled during the '89 student movement.... more
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Munro
Scotland, 2009, 16 min.
A father's desire to have one last hike with his son isn't going to go well for either of them.... more
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My Poor Head
Poland, 2009, 22 min.
After the death of his mother, 16-year-old Wojtek's father loses touch with reality, forcing Wojtek to become caretaker and breadwinner before his time. But when the real world threatens their home, Wojtek has just a few hours to make his father into a man.... more
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Passing
Ireland, 2009, 11 min.
Margaret makes an arduous journey with her husband in tow, carrying on a conversation about their lives together along the way, in this moving Irish tale.... more
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Patrol
USA, 2009, 20 min.
Desperate to reconnect with his young son after taking on a new job as a nightshift guard at a shopping mall, Norm goes along with young Justin's mistaken assumption that his dad is now a policeman.... more
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Peter in Radioland
Scotland, 2009, 10 min.
"Sometimes I feel the world is upside down. I wish it was the other way." So says Peter, the filmmaker's 63-year-old father at the heart of this sensitively told and meticulously crafted documentary.... more
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Peter's Room
Sweden, 3 min.
It's late morning, but Peter's mother is unable to get him to get out of bed. Could there be another reason why the boy is pretending to be asleep?... more
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The Prince of Japan
Switzerland, 2010, 19 min.
Franny visits her elderly aunt, Lucienne, to share news but the aging woman's memory takes center stage instead.... more
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Save Our Bacon
United Kingdom, 2010, 14 min.
The pigs on the farm face a dastardly dilemma unless the farmer can save their skins -- literally!... more
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A Scene at the Sea
South Korea, 2009, 22 min.
A father and son, roles now reversed as one becomes the caretaker of the other, execute a delicate dance at the edge of the sea.... more
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Seeds of the Fall
Sweden, 2009, 17 min.
When a middle aged married couple's bed time is interrupted by a tractor that comes sailing through their bedroom wall, and the neighbors show up with a very unorthodox proposition, all bets are off.... more
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Six Weeks
Poland, 2009, 18 min.
The first breaths and cries of a newborn baby lead up to a Polish woman's wrenching decision of whether to keep the child or not. Winner of the Best Short Doc at the prestigious International Documentary Film Association festival.... more
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Somewhere Unreached
South Korea, 2009, 29 min.
A young man is faced with the startling realization that family duty can mean many different things.... more
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The Terms
United Kingdom, 2009, 12 min.
A father and son face off in this darkly amusing tale. The father, returning to find his son has set fire to their shack, offers the boy a deal: he'll give him a fifty meter head start and he'll put only one bullet in the chamber.... more
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Tired of Being Funny
USA, 2009, 30 min.
Father and daughter (Frasier's John Mahoney and Lili Taylor) find themselves in a conversation that redefines their relationship and the roles they will play with each other for the rest of their lives.... more
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Urs
Germany, 2009, 10 min.
A man carries his mother up a mountain in this animated tale of a dutiful son intent upon finding a better life for both of them.... more
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War
Italy, 2009, 16 min.
Set in Italy in 1949, this delightful comedy revolves around a father and his three sons, who take dad's war stories a little too much to heart.... more
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Whooping Cough
Spain, 2009, 8 min.
Set in postwar Spain, this delightful family tale introduces us to a young boy whose mother is rushing him to get ready to meet his father, the conductor of a train that stops near their village at a set time each day.... more
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Woman Rebel
Nepal, 2009, 37 min.
The recent Nepalese civil war pitted royal government troops against Maoist rebels. It also turned a rural family inside out as the brother and sister found themselves on opposite sides of battle.... more
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