Am, an ambitious Filipina nurse, leaves her family behind in the Philippines to chase the American Cream in the 1990s, only to find herself battling loneliness, cultural barriers, and unexpected hardships as she works to reunite with her daughter.
When Holly’s dark secret is accidentally uncovered by her new emotionally unstable neighbor Tom, they are pulled into a violent confrontation with her father, who will do anything to keep the secret hidden.
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Fia is 18 years old, pregnant and has just moved with her boyfriend to their first apartment in a suburb. Alone she tries to navigate the society of adulthood for the first time.
While many GDR opposition activists emigrated to West Germany at the beginning of the 1980s, the well-known singer-songwriter Bettina Wegner held on to her homeland against all odds. Although she was sent to prison as a young mother, she remained convinced that it was worth fighting to make the GDR a better, freer society. However, life as an undesirable person in the state becomes a real ordeal for her and her family.
A 15-year old Vika has to grow up. Only yesterday she was just a teenager and now she’s a mom. Catching sidelong scowls of adults, being mocked by peers, unbearable responsibility – it seems like the entire world is against her and Vika is all by herself. More truly, she has a child now, she’s not all alone.
Cassandra has always defined her worth through her role as a mother, but when her newly-adult daughter, Florence, experiences a still birth they both must realize their own value as women, separate from motherhood.
An award-winning screenwriter zooms with his estranged daughter.
Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.
A young mother struggles to keep her head above water as she navigates motherhood, her neurodivergent toddler, and the gritty Atlanta nightclub where she works. All on a quarter tank of gas.
A mother tries to take care of her newborn child.
In the late 1990s, some officers at Vancouver Police Department made a documentary film (THROUGH A BLUE LENS) about the everyday lives of six drug addicts in Vancouver's skid row, the Downtown Eastside. TEARS FOR APRIL reintroduces us to these six people; with footage shot over a period of nearly ten years, it continues their biography.
Two twins named Lila and Lili. Both experienced tragic ends after alleged abuse by their own mother, Rahma. However, death does not immediately end their story. In another realm, Lila continues to search for her twin sister, Lili, who was separated from her. This search then leads Lila into a greater mystery that has been hidden. In addition to facing a deep sense of loss, Lila also tries to understand the reasons behind the tragedy that destroyed their lives. Meanwhile, mysterious figures begin to appear and reveal that there is a greater power deliberately hiding the truth.
Rosa is about to turn 45 and realises that she's always lived her life to serve everyone else. So she decides to leave it all behind, take charge of her life and fulfil her dream of starting her own business.
The surprising death of her husband hits Anna like a blow: Suddenly she is completely alone and has to take care of the management of the apple orchard. In order to assist her mother in the difficult time, Anna's illegitimate daughter Ines draws her to the estate. The relationship between the two women is difficult, tensions are inevitable. In this emotionally charged atmosphere, Anna learns that her 16-year-old granddaughter Jo is unintentionally pregnant. Ines has no idea of her daughter's secret. However, it is only a matter of time before the hide-and-seek game flies open.
The film documents the situation of the underage pregnant girl Simone before and shortly after the birth of her son Daniel.
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.