A woman dreads attending a Thanksgiving dinner.
When Cecilia visits her parents for Christmas, they soon realize she has changed a lot since she moved out.
This short is about the dynamic of a family, shown through the ritual of sitting up for dinner at 6 o'clock.
Franco, an elderly man, lives his life in serenity together with his wife Margherita. The arrival of his brother Vittorio, with whom he hasn’t talked in years, breaks the calm. Vittorio wants to reconcile, but Franco still bears a grudge against him. Only a sad discovery manages to touch Franco’s heart. At dinner, peace has been made. The rediscovered brotherhood is so wonderful, it seems like a dream. It takes nothing though to turn a dream into a nightmare..
A father and his son have a vicious confrontation when the former returns after 5 years of absence.
A mother and her son partake in a rage filled dinner together.
Thirteen dinners of a Chinese migrant worker's family over the course of fourteen months. The film portrays a series of random occurrences. Joys, frustrations and the struggle for survival. The meals unfold in real-time through thirteen static, long takes. Each take captures with vivid detail the reality of the relationships between the different family members. As the seasons unfold, so does time and the echoes for better working conditions penetrate the frame. Issues such as the one-child-policy and the possibilities for better wages weigh heavily on the minds of the three-generation family.
When two women of different faiths fall in love, they must find a way for their traditional families to break bread.
A young finger puppet retrieves a lost letter written by her deceased brother while her parents struggle to cope with their grief.
A Czech family deals with their problems in a strange way.
Left home alone one evening, a 12-year-old boy steals some live lobsters from his parents fridge. He brings these, as a gift, to the single mother of his best friend, only to claim in his house a place that goes beyond that of a dinner seat.
Ronnel, who is an out-of-school youth and a laborer at a factory in Laguna, is one of the participants of a program for OSYs in an academic institution. When an opportunity knocks, he finds himself choosing between focusing on his present or building his future.
Iva is a girl who receives a small digital video camera for her fourteenth birthday. Delighted by her new toy, the girl immediately starts taping everything around her, recording a series of events surrounding her birthday celebration on her first tape. These ninety minutes form the film What Iva Recorded on October 21st, 2003.
When Ryan’s new girlfriend takes him to a dinner party to meet her friends, he realises he knows more about them than he should and it all takes a turn.
As a single parent in an unfamiliar country, Ma’s entire life centers around raising Luan, her rambunctious young daughter. Likewise, Luan spends her childhood indulging in endless quality time with her playful, loving mother. However, as Luan grows up, it isn’t long before daily life interferes and causes mother and daughter to grow apart. By channeling their feelings into cooking, the two strive to find their way back to each other, one homemade meal at a time.
Drowned in the chaos of a family reunion filled with testosterone and pig roast, Reynald will try to prove to his nephew, his family but mostly himself that he's still king.
Three generations of a single family live together under a common roof in an uncoordinated choreography. The mother, acting as an orchestra conductor, tries without success to gather everyone around the same table for dinner.