When violence claims a mother and great granddaughter a century apart, one family’s past and present collide, forcing each generation to decide what legacy of peace, justice and dignity they will carry forward.
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HAPPY FAMILY follows the return of an estranged father who, with advanced Parkinson’s and nowhere to go, is taken in by the women he once left behind—his ex-wife and four daughters—suddenly tasked with keeping him alive.
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When a filmmaker unearths 16mm footage filmed by her late father of a musical born in apartheid South Africa, she locates the forgotten performers whose stories of resilience, long buried by history, finally rise through the transcendent power of music and dance.
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After the death of a disabled child, a family confronts conflicting memories of the institution where he lived. His concealed existence becomes the subject of collective reckoning as scenes from the past unspool.
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Our Home Is Not Of This World follows the work of a medical examiner’s office in Texas that identifies people who die crossing the border, revealing its personal, political and spiritual significance.
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While recovering from a brain injury, a filmmaker creates an animated film tracing her family's journey from Soviet Uzbekistan, uncovering legends of migration and a railway that echoes across generations.
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