Movies: Parenthood

In this spellbinding hand-drawn odyssey by the celebrated Oscar-winning animator Torill Kove, a bustling urban habitat becomes an enchanting web of human connection. Threads explores how fundamental attachment is to the experience of being human....

Joe Barring is a motorcycle-riding, beer-drinking womanizer who takes odd jobs and still lives with his parents. Following an arrest, he gets a rude awakening when he learns that he is the father of at least one of three children whose mother has rec...

A pregnant mother, unsure of how to raise a child, arranges an interview with her two gay dads but fate intervenes when his dad suffers a heart attack. Her dad reflects on their family's history, captured on an old camcorder....

A dedicated mother fights against the stubborn administrative system to get her son the services he needs....

A father grows suspicious that there's an intruder in his house, only to discover something much darker....

During an ordinary car ride to a friend's house, father and son share a conversation about their estranged relationship....

A young wife and mother rediscovers her long forgotten passion when she is granted the ability to live without sleep....

For Chinese parents, finding out that their kid is gay usually presents a major tragedy, with the big majority utterly unable to accept the homosexuality of their son or daughter. However, during recent years a fresh rainbow wind has been blowing ove...

What happens when your child comes out to you? In this feature documentary, parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender individuals in Turkey intimately share their experiences with the viewer, as they redefine what it means to be parents in t...

A couple's dreams of parenthood are shattered by a mystical ritual, forcing their daughter to embrace her supernatural destiny amidst love, betrayal and a cursed fate....

Seven strangers are interviewed to talk about the relationship they have with their mother....

A single mother struggles with the futility of her relationship with her special needs son as her patience grows thin....

When something threatens to derail a mother's long-term plan of getting her 10-year-old son to be admitted into Harvard University, she will do whatever necessary to course correct the trajectory, no matter the consequences....

Mothers and fathers of gay, lesbian and trans people from Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Russia and Ukraine have come to Berlin pride 2024. This documentary shows them as they are living together preparing for pride, the first pride for ...

What happens when a baby is born? What if there is no milk? Or just a drop too much? An animated short film which describes the mental process of becoming a parent - in a scenery of a catastrophe film. When the baby is born the fresh mother has to g...

Come What May documents the extraordinary life of Mary, a parent carer, and the challenges she has overcome to support herself and her family....

A Father blames himself for the tragic loss of his daughter to the sea. Leading up to the funeral he is haunted by his grief and shunned by his broken-hearted wife, causing a spiral of anxiety and despair....

A short documentary that follows Korean grandparents as they share their modern-day reckoning of their immigration story and grandparenthood....

A young father-to-be struggles to overcome his grief and fear of becoming a father and specifically his father....

The film is a personal statement of the director and his wife, who have to deal with a very rare and incurable disease of their newborn child – the Ondine’s Curse (also known as CCHS, congenital central hypoventilation syndrome). People affected with...