In the middle of a trip, Rubí, an eight-year-old girl, discovers within herself a powerful desire to eat roses. The rigidity and severity of her mother forces her to act in secret, until her desire manages to transform into something else.
Ils font partie des 177 000 enfants qui, en France, grandissent éloignés de leurs parents, la plupart du temps sur décision d'un juge. Ils s'appellent Agnès, Richard, Anne et Rachel, ils ont 57, 62 et 26 ans. Ils sont éducateurs et ont fait le choix de vivre avec les enfants placés dont ils s'occupent. Leurs destins de croisent à Vecherny, le village où se trouve le centre d'accueil. Onze maisons y accueillent 65 mineurs. À contre-courant du "risque" d'attachement mis en avant dans les politiques de l'Aide Sociale à l'Enfance, ici se vit un quotidien familial et chaleureux.
Somewhere between the 1930s and now, the cameras start turning and Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Marlene Dietrich gather on one film set. The floor gleams, the spotlights are burning, the narration starts. Born out of a fascination for the construction that is Hollywood, and by extension ‘the perfect Hollywood home’, the maker embodies three actresses from Hollywood’s golden era and their so-called private lives. Their smallest personality traits are performed so precise and characteristically that it becomes artificial. The home isn’t homely. It plays “house” and the inhabitants are speaking Hollywoodian. In this setting, the maker of the film recalls memories of growing up in her childhood home.
An actress confronts her quarter-life crisis by breaking up with New York City and returning home to win back the love of her life.
Oli wants to finish her book. Jo wants to get over her breakup. What they don't want is to share a house.
After purchasing their home, a young couple begins documenting their lives.
A documentary showcasing a family as they pack up their home of twelve years and begin looking towards the future.
A young woman follows a strange impulse to return to her childhood home to find her parents missing, her past erased and the house threatened inside and out by a dark presence.
Dans les rues de Marseille, René Allio retrouve les lieux de son enfance (des années 1920 aux années 1950). Promenade souvenir dans les quartiers du Vieux Port, du Panier, de la Belle de Mai, d’où descend le tramway et qui sert de toile de fond à l’auteur pour raconter l’histoire de sa famille, immigrés italiens, venus travailler sur les chantiers marseillais.
Returning to her childhood home after many years, Penelope is tormented by a monster that she thought had vanished long ago.
Sam's fear of her childhood home is brought to light when her ageing father claims there is another presence in the house.
A short film depicting the universality of life, growth, and how beautiful life is to simply exist. The film shows how beautiful it can be when we show tenderness & love for one another, through the narration & home movies of four sisters & their mother from when they were born up to the present. The film was made over 18 years on The Australian Coast.
As part of his final psychotherapy treatment, a mental patient is allowed to return to the basement of his deserted childhood home, so he can finally face his fears involving the death of his younger brother.
A newspaper clip of a 30-year-old movie makes our middle-aged protagonist in the middle of his peak years to look for his best childhood friend. The journey leads him back to his teenage years in the 1990s depression, over-generational substance abuse and past encounters. This partly essayistic, autobiographical documentary tells the story of friendship and generational experiences while also pondering on the causes and effects of destinies in the judgmental atmosphere of our society.
A video camera turns into a looking glass to the past in this lo-fi yet highly ambitious head-turner, following a young man who gets to reconnect with his family’s history through old, strangely immersive home movies.
Alma returns to Mexico seeking the man who caused the loss of her childhood home. He is not easily found, but the road to him brings her closer to her late father, and the secrets he took with him to his grave.
When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon shipped him off to one of the toughest youth welfare institutions in Freistatt. This was followed by a career as a bouncer in the city's most notorious music club and an attempt to start a family. Today, the 77-year-old from Bielefeld lives with his dog Lucky in a lonely house in the country. Despite adverse living conditions, he has survived in his own unique and inimitable way.
A woman learns her estranged father has passed away. She returns with her boyfriend to her childhood home of Belize, where she is reunited with her brother, and must face her past while fighting for intimacy in the present.
Mary est conseillère en toxicomanie, avec un problème d'alcool. Après avoir été arrêtée pour conduite en état d'ébriété et avoir perdu son emploi, Mary retourne dans sa ville natale où elle apprend que son père, qui lui est étranger, est en train de mourir d'un cancer et qu'il veut qu'il veut créer un lien entre elle et sa demi-sœur adolescente qu'elle n'a jamais rencontrée.