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2) Proxima
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Language
English
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Sarah is an astronaut and lives alone with her daughter. When she is chosen to be part of a space mission, it creates chaos in their relationship.
3) Sweet Thing
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Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
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SWEET THING centers around the lives of two children in contemporary New Bedford, Massachusetts in particular one eventful summer spent in a beach house with their mother and her boyfriend. The story is an intense but ultimately uplifting, poetic rendering of childhood that captures the essence of that time in life when a day can last forever. The friendships, loyalties, and challenges of adolescent youth propel the story into a triumph of childhood...
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Film Movement
Language
Arabic
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A moving meditation on what it means to live in the present, YOU WILL DIE AT TWENTY is an auspicious debut and Sudan's first Oscar submission, Shortly after his birth, the holy man of the village predicts that Muzamil will die at age 20. His father, unable to stand the curse, leaves home forcing Sakina to raise her son as an overly protective single mother. One day, Muzamil turns 19....
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, living with his mother, spending his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys, and secretly hooking up with his girlfriend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first...
Publisher
1091 Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
MRS LOWRY AND SON tells the story of how famed British artist L.S. Lowry lived all of his life with his overbearing mother, a deterring voice as he pursued his artistic ambition. However, a rent collector by day, Lowry took art classes in the evening and painted into the early hours to become one of the most significant artists of the 20th Century.
7) Jojo Rabbit
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
8) Pieta
Series
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Korean
Description
Hired by moneylenders, a man lives as a loan shark brutally threatening people for paybacks. This man, without any family therefore with nothing to lose, continues his merciless way of life regardless of all the pain he has caused to a countless number of people. One day, a woman appears in front of him claiming to be his mother. He coldly rejects her at first, but gradually accepts her in his life. He decides to quit his cruel job and to live a decent...
9) Goldie
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Goldie is a star in the eyes of her little sisters Sherrie and Supreme, and the rest of the world is bound to take note soon too. Her big break surely awaits, she's just got to pick up that golden fur coat she's had her eye on first. And land a role as a dancer in a hip-hop video. And keep child welfare services from separating her from Sherrie and Supreme, after their mother is locked up. Holding onto those dreams isn't easy when fate has placed...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Sarah Collins is a single mother struggling to raise two young children while searching for answers about the unsolved murder of her husband. After being coerced into helping a low-level drug dealer, she finds herself the target of a dangerous crime boss. Desperate to keep her family safe, Sarah turns the tables on her victimizers in one final act of brutal vengeance.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Language
English
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Toronto, 1899. Aspiring young politician Mackenzie King (Dan Beirne) dreams of becoming the Prime Minister of Canada. But his romantic vacillation between a British soldier and a French nurse, exacerbated by a fetishistic obsession, may well bring about his downfall. In his quest for power, King must gratify the expectations of his imperious Mother, the hawkish fantasies of a war-mongering Governor-General, and the utopian idealism of a Québécois...
12) True mothers
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
日本語
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After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the middle-class couple and their young son Asato settle into a comfortable, albeit routine, life. The family's orderly existence is shattered by the arrival of Hikari, a young woman claiming to be Asato's biological mother, demanding his return. As tensions mount, Satoko grows more and more emboldened to defend her family....
13) Wildland
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Danish
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Following a car accident, which kills her mother, seventeen-year-old Ida moves in with her estranged aunt and her aunt's grown sons. The home is filled with physical tenderness and love, but outside of the home, the family leads a violent and criminal life. When an unforeseen murder pressures the family and their loyalty to each other, tension builds as love and violence become impossible to separate. Ida is faced with the same question her mother...
14) Kindred
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her boyfriend dies suddenly in an accident, psychologically fragile mother-to-be Charlotte is taken in by his family, but they seem increasingly obsessed with her every move. Her suspicions grow and panic builds, but just how far will they go in their desire to control her and her unborn baby?
Publisher
Rose Metal Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"How much of the human experience can fit into 750 words? A lot, it turns out. Since its founding in 1997, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction has published hundreds of brief nonfiction essays by writers around the world, each within that strict word count. Over the past 20 years, Brevity has become one of the longest-running and most popular online literary publications, a journal readers regularly return to for insightful essays from...
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