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Genre: Family Affairs


9 Temples to Heaven

Sompot Chidgasornpongse

Receiving a disturbing prophecy regarding his elderly mother, Sakol piles the family into a van and sets out on a pilgrimage to reverse the bad karma.

Al Baraneya

Ashgan El-Hamus

When a developer offers to buy her family’s land in a village outside Cairo, pregnant Amal dreams of a very different kind of life in the big city.

Ana, en passant

Fernanda Salgado

Following her grandmother’s death in Paris, a young woman travels to Brazil where she encounters her exact double in this lyrical animated drama.

The Beloved El ser querido

Rodrigo Sorogoyen

When a legendary filmmaker (Javier Bardem) offers his estranged daughter a role in his latest film, tensions percolate and old wounds are reopened.

Ben’Imana

Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo

In this stunning, intimate portrait of defiance and forgiveness, a Rwandan genocide survivor’s convictions are tested by her daughter’s unexpected pregnancy.

A Bit of Light Kami Nour

Ali Asgari

After deciding to end it all, Arash spends a final day with his family in this moving expression of life’s mysterious beauty and its ability to puncture despair.

Bunker

Florian Zeller

When an architect (Javier Bardem) is recruited to design a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire, his wife (Penélope Cruz) begins to question their marriage.

Clarissa

Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri

Adapting Mrs. Dalloway to modern Lagos, this evocative drama captures post-colonial class tensions, memory, and desire across a single momentous day.

Club Kid

Jordan Firstman

A hard-partying New York City club promoter sees his whirlwind lifestyle upended by the arrival of the 10-year-old son he never knew he had.

A Common Story

Anna Foglietta

In this elegiac, emotionally rich drama, empty-nesters Erika and Mauro must navigate relationships and desires anew, as they face an unfamiliar future.

Dao

Alain Gomis

Parallel timelines weave together a contemporary French wedding and an ancestral funeral in Guinea-Bissau for a West African diasporic family.

Ever After

Frankie Nasso

Michelin-star chef Curtis Duffy launches a new world-class restaurant during a pandemic in the relentless pursuit of culinary perfection and a personal reckoning.

Finding Your Laughter

Arlieta Hall, Brittany Alsot

In this joyful, moving documentary, Chicago comedian Arlieta uses improv comedy techniques to care for her father as he battles Alzheimer’s.

Forever Your Maternal Animal Siempre soy tu animal materno

Valentina Maurel

Home from studying in Europe, Elsa returns to Costa Rica to find her family in disarray and feels compelled to help those who have no desire to be saved.

Gentle Monster

Marie Kreutzer

Concert pianist Lucy (Léa Seydoux) must protect her son after her husband is accused of an unspeakable crime in this thriller about trust and survival.

The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer La ilusión de un verano sin fin

Alessandra Sanguinetti

Filmed over 25 years, this profound study of female intimacy tracks two Argentine cousins as their days of adolescent wonder give way to sobering adulthood.

Iron Boy Le Corset

Louis Clichy

In this dreamy ink and watercolor animation, music and romance provide escape from rigid family obligation for an imaginative child in an iron back brace.

Josephine

Beth de Araújo

Channing Tatum delivers a knockout performance as a father struggling to manage the fallout after his young daughter witnesses a brutal assault.

The Liberation

Guy Nattiv

Rita (Carrie Coon), a mother escaping a harrowing past, finds solace in a female empowerment cult led by the charismatic Ricki (Lily James). But when Rita’s daughters arrive, she must choose between the freedom she’s found and the life she left behind.

Liz Here Now

Sterling Macer Jr.

Aunjanue Ellis Taylor mesmerizes as a devoted caregiver shielding two white children from domestic dysfunction in this deeply affecting 1960s-set drama.

A Long Winter

Andrew Haigh

In 1950s Colorado, a family in an isolated mountain home is rocked by tragedy just as snow squalls and plummeting temperatures descend for the season.

Love is the monster Amor es el monstruo

Neto Villalobos Brenes

In a tropical dystopia ruled by fear and inequality, a woman trying to right wrongs with her young granddaughter faces dangerous choices.

Minotaur

Andrey Zvyagintsev

A Russian businessman’s comfortable life is thrown into chaos when he begins to suspect his wife of infidelity in this dark, sardonic moral fable.

Mouse

Kelly O’Sullivan & Alex Thompson

The latest gem from the talented Chicago filmmaking duo (Ghostlight) follows teenager Minnie, who forms a complicated relationship with her best friend’s mother.

Paper Tiger

James Gray

Adam Driver and Miles Teller deliver standout performances as brothers who get entangled with the Russian mafia in James Gray’s intense family drama.

Saints Sants

Mikel Gurrea

While reluctantly caring for her dying mother, Lali finds a new purpose when she joins a band of misfit thieves who steal religious artifacts.

Six Months in a Pink and Blue Building Seis meses en el edificio rosa con azul

Bruno Santamaría Razo

Filmmaker Bruno recalls the hazy memories from his eleventh year, reconciling his budding queerness with his father’s diagnosis with HIV.

The Spiral L'Estranea

Paolo Strippoli

A Faustian bargain sends a once-perfect family on a harrowing downward spiral in this twisted fable from The Holy Boy director.

Tangles

Leah Nelson

A young queer woman grapples with her vibrant mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis in this charming and deeply moving animated memoir.

Tender Loving Care

Mike Leigh

Legendary British filmmaker Mike Leigh returns with a profoundly moving story—filled with humor, hardship, and compassion—about how we look after each other.

Three Colors: Pan-African

Elijah Davis, Allison A. Waite, Tyler Holmes

Three stories connect across the Pan-African flag as an injured athlete, an evicted mother, and a sitcom star fight to survive modern Black America.

Tin Castle

Alexander Murphy

Irish Travelers Paddy and Lisa O’Reilly and their 10 children find their traditional way of life under threat in this immersive and tender portrait.

Trash Mountain

Kris Rey

In this witty, queer coming-of-age comedy, Gavin (Caleb Hearon) leaves Chicago for his Missouri hometown after his father dies.

What Belongs to Others Cudze rzeczy

Grzegorz Dębowski

When thief Kasia discovers a man’s body while on a job, a scam to collect his life insurance money becomes something more in this elusive mystery.

Will You Still Be My Friend

Po-Shun Lu

The intimate friendship of Jun and Jasper is threatened when a conflict erupts between their families in this heartfelt portrait of adolescence.

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