Family as refuge, anchor and fault line - fragile bonds that comfort and confine us, quietly shaping us across generations.
Families here (or anywhere) are anything but simple. Across places and generations, these films trace bonds that comfort, confine, protect and wound, sometimes all at once. Childhood summers sit beside inherited violence, grief reshapes responsibility, and devotion is tested by expectation and deception. Mothers and daughters navigate systems that deny them agency; siblings hold each other when no one else will; grown children return to places that still define and reshape them. In each story, family is both anchor and fault line; messy, fragile, and yet
(im)possible to outgrow.
Total Running Time: 86 min
