Films for Father's Day
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The Films for Father's Day collection includes the following titles:
130 Children
130 Hermanos
Documentary
Costa Rica, Chile
In Costa Rica, an elderly couple has raised over 130 foster children; the documentary explores love, community care, and life beyond genetics.
A Faraway House
Una casa lejos
Fiction, Drama
Argentina
Graciela finds out that her father has a strange friendship with a homeless girl, and in the attempt to separate them she’ll find out that a different life is possible.
Ashes
Cenizas
Drama, Fiction
Ecuador, Uruguay
Caridad hasn’t spoken to her father since he left the family under a cloud of suspicion years ago, until a dormant volcano starts spewing ash with Caridad trapped in the blast zone.
Bastard. The Legacy of Pinochet's Genocide
Bastardo. La herencia de un genocida
Documentary
Chile, Italy, Sweden
On discovering his father was the head of Chilean police intelligence guilty of human rights abuses, the director confronts him and looks for victims.
Blinded
Ciegos
Drama
Argentina
Thirteen year old Juan and his blind father Marco travel back to his childhood home uncovering memories and truths on their journey.
Blue Files
Karpeta urdinak
Documentary
Spain, France
Basque filmmaker Ander Iriarte suspects that his father was tortured and a recent study carried out in the Basque Country can prove it scientifically.
Building Bridges
Construindo pontes
Documentary
Brazil
An exploration of the possible relationship between Heloísa, the filmmaker, and her father, an engineer who had his moment of glory during the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Comala
Documentary, Drama
Mexico
Filmmaker Gian Cassini investigates several generations of men in his family caught up in violence, including his father, who was a hitman in Tijuana.
Cravos
Documentary
Brazil
Photographer Christian Cravo travels through Africa, exploring his efforts to overcome traumas while navigating familial disagreements and memories.
César's Grill
Grill de César, El
Documentary, Comedy
Germany, Switzerland
To save his estranged father's restaurant, vegetarian Darío Aguirre returns to Ecuador, reluctantly helping rescue the failing carnivorous business.
Estación catorce
Drama, Fiction, Adventure
Mexico, Uruguay
Over the course of just a few days, Luis discovers the world at the age of 7. Violence touches his environment and triggers the first encounter with death, the discovery of his father's fragility and the learning of masculinity in his vulnerable world.
Father’s Chair
A busca
Drama, Fiction
Brazil
Theo is a successful doctor in the wealthy suburbs of São Paulo. Having always placed his job before his family, he is a failure as both a father and husband. But when his 15-year-old son disappears, selling all of his belongings and leaving town on a newly acquired black stallion, Theo goes to great lengths not only to find his son, but to rediscover himself.
Fed-up
Harta
Drama, Fiction
Spain
On her 12th birthday, Carmela is forced to meet her father in a family meeting center, due to his conviction for domestic violence against her mother.
Greykey
Documentary
Spain
Fear and fascination arise in Muriel Grey when she remembers her father, one of the only black survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp.
I Owe You a Letter About Brazil
Fico te devendo uma carta sobre o Brasil
Documentary
Brazil
An investigation into the persistence of silence as a tool to erase memory in Brazil.
La Soledad
La soledad
Drama, Fiction
Venezuela, Canada, Italy
Handyman José lives with his family in La Soledad, a ramshackle villa located in what was once among Caracas’ most affluent neighborhoods. Might a fabled treasure supposedly hidden in La Soledad’s walls offer José’s family a chance at a better life?
Land of My Children
Im Land Meiner Kinder
Documentary
Germany, Switzerland
A tender-ironic road movie that traces Darío Aguirre's intertwined journey from the country of his fathers to the country of his children.
Lessons for Luca
Documentary
The Netherlands, Cuba
In this mesmerizing family saga, a personal story is inseparably intertwined with the history of Cuba when a farmer gets a six-year sentence for selling his own cow.
Looking for Zorro
Buscando al Zorro
Drama
Dominican Republic
A single dad takes his son on a job far from home. As tensions rise, secrets surface, testing their bond and forcing them to face the past.
May Your Will Be Done
Hágase tu voluntad
Documentary
Spain
A personal documentary exploring a son's journey to reconcile with his dying father, touching on family, forgiveness, and death with dignity.
Meeting Point
Punto de encuentro
Documentary
Chile
Two filmmakers recreate their fathers' experiences in a torture center during the Chilean dictatorship.
Neither Hero nor Traitor
Ni héroe ni traidor
Drama, Fiction
Argentina
Matías dreams of going to Spain to study music far from a dictatorship. His problems come down to convincing his girlfriend to meet him there and to get around his father’s opposition. But the playing field changes completely when the Falklands War breaks out and he is drafted along with his friends.
Portrait of My Father
El retrato de mi padre
Documentary, Thriller
Uruguay
Thirty years after his father’s mysterious death, the filmmaker embarks on a quest for the truth in this exploration of loss, depression, and love.
Seguridad
Documentary
Canada, Cuba
A filmmaker confronts her father’s death and Cuba’s militarized past, weaving intimate family archives into a narrative of forgiveness and reckoning.
Silence is a Falling Body
El silencio es un cuerpo que cae
Documentary
Argentina
This story of political activism and sexual dissidence offers a fascinating insight into life in Argentina between the 1970s and 1990s, peeling back layers of left-wing politics, homosexuality, and AIDS as it shifts between private and public spheres, intertwining the personal and the political.
The Calm After The Storm
Como el cielo después de llover
Documentary
Argentina, Colombia
After studying abroad, Mercedes returns to her native city to join her father, acclaimed filmmaker and writer Victor Gaviria (The Rose Seller), in the shooting of his next film
The Clash
La bronca
Drama
Peru, Colombia
In 1990s Montreal, an 18‑year‑old reunites with his father but confronts inherited trauma and clashing dreams in their fraught relationship.
The Delay
La demora
Drama, Fiction
France, Mexico, Uruguay
An exploration of the intense, painful ambivalence of family responsibility. When her elderly father's mental deterioration becomes a burden for her and three young children, María has to make a drastic decision.
The Last Fisherman of Taganga
El último pescador de Taganga
Drama
Colombia
Father and son chase sea dreams in perilous, climate-changed oceans. Amid a bleak future, an end becomes a new start
The Offended
Los ofendidos
Documentary
Mexico, El Salvador
An award-winning documentary on the legacy of the internal armed conflict in El Salvador, The Offended features the director’s charismatic father, Rubén Zamora, a key political leader and current Salvadorian Ambassador before the UN who was captured and tortured by the National Police during the country’s civil war.
The Visitor
El visitante
Drama, Fiction
Bolivia
A somber meditation on class, family, and the increasing power of Evangelism in Latin America, reflecting on the region’s legacies of colonialism.
There Is a Door, There
Hay una puerta ahí
Documentary
Uruguay, Spain
A story that changes one's perspective on life and death. The unexpected friendship between ALS patient Fernando and palliative care physician Enric.
A Strange Path
Estranho Caminho
Drama, Fiction
Brazil
A young filmmaker returns to his hometown and attempts to reconnect with his father as the pandemic rapidly accelerates across Brazil.