A 10 year old girl escapes the grim reality of her situation by creating a world where all of her hopes and dreams come true.
The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?
An eight-year-old girl tries to build a relationship with her absent father through a class-assigned family tree.
Growing up in a small rural farm town in the early 1950's, sixteen- year-old Jimmy Hoffer, and his two siblings do their best to survive poverty and a crumbling family unit.
Mariana revisits a trunk of letters that Ricardo, her father, sent to Alfa, her mother, in the 90s when he lived in Canada. Now that her father has left the country again, Mariana seeks answers about the evolution of her parents' love through an emotional encounter.
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden unemployment later in life causes friction among the siblings of the Akagi family. Kensuke, a salaryman at a top company, refuses to support his parents while his brother, Shoji, determines to care for them despite only working as a taxi driver. The concern over money affects Noriko's own love life as she courts a wealthy salaryman to the chagrin of her mechanic boyfriend.
A girl with autism and her best friend run away from home in search of her mother with the only clue that she is in "heaven".
In this tragicomedy, three adult sisters and their brother come to the farm of their estranged, deceased mother to divide the inheritance. To their surprise, that includes a flock of sheep. The sisters and brother have drifted apart but it turns out that too is part of their mother's legacy.
Julio is a retired former wrestling wrestler, but not just any wrestler; there in the ring he fought against his emotions. His absence as a father took his son Gael away from home, so he will have to defeat the rival he could never defeat to be with his family again; "The fear".