Results for Absent Families
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A mother and her three children discuss what to do (in the hours after?) after the father leaves (and they aren't sure if he'll come back. something like that).
A brother-in-law lives with a family, but his presence in the house slowly fades away.
After he gets divorced, a father finds renewed purpose through his role as a single parent and the precious time he spends with his children.
Over dinner, an observer reflects on mothers and their omnipresent prevalence in children’s lives.
A man reflects on the loneliness of his childhood home, where his family would fervently clean the house every Saturday for guests on Sunday who would never show.
After yet another hurricane, a Puerto Rican family reflects how they hide their struggles from their Americanized relatives.
After a dying mother instructs her children to find their distant aunt and new guardian, they must step outside the home they have always known and embark on a journey toward their new life.
In a small town in Minnesota, a man's ex-wife returns to him, homeless and in request for help, after abandoning him and their son more than a decade ago.
When a man's children return home to visit him and and his wife for Christmas, he reflects on their tense family dynamic, his past aggressive and abusive behavior, and his distance from his eldest daughter, who has found a new family with her boyfriend and his child.
A young boy whose brother has died arrives in America with his family. They had hidden the death from their father, and now the family must tell him the truth.