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1) After class
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dysfunctionally-functional family attempts to work together to support their grandmother during her final days. This laugh-out-loud comedy is about how sometimes your crazy family really can come through, just when you need them the most. Starring Justin Long, Fran Drescher, Kate Berlant, Lynn Cohen, Michael Godere and Richard Sciff. Official Selection at **Tribeca Film Festival**.
2) Minari
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a disastrous non-debut at a Toronto drag club, Russell leaves his status-conscious boyfriend and takes shelter with his grandmother Margaret in Canadian wine country. Margaret is a woman coming to terms with her mortality while determined to hang on to her independence. As tempers wear thin and family secrets are revealed, Russell and Margaret fight to maintain their dignity while being true to themselves.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Swati
Description
Amidst the highest prevalence of HIV in the world and the lowest life expectancy, three grandmothers in Swaziland, a small, landlocked country in southern Africa between South Africa and Mozambique, cope in this critical moment in time. The generation between the grandmothers and their grandchildren has been severely effected by HIV.
5) P
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Thai
Description
While growing up in rural Thailand, a young and beautiful orphan girl is taught the mysterious art of dark magic by her grandmother. When her grandmother falls sick, young Dau travels to Bangkok looking for work in order to earn enough money for medicine. She lands a job as an exotic dancer at a go-go club. Hesitant at first and ridiculed by the other dancers, circumstances force Dau to become an adult before her time and ultimately becomes the most...
6) The farewell
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds...
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