Seahorse
On the day of her abortion, Dana looks for her own way to come to terms with her decision. An intimate and personal look at the lives of women in an abortion clinic.
On the day of her abortion, Dana looks for her own way to come to terms with her decision. An intimate and personal look at the lives of women in an abortion clinic.
Emily is a young mother and a heroin addict facing the nightmare of losing her daughter if she can't put her life back together..
A woman in a fertility clinic is asked to give up her seat for a pregnant man..
Mars, a pregnant boy, must confront the tabloid persona created by his fame-obsessed mother on the final day of his pregnancy..
For Gwen, it's always 1999. The face in the mirror is unfamiliar and her partner isn't recognizable to her despite waking up together every day. Joe's past is coming undone and his partner, Sarah, fears she will be forgotten. A doctor refuses to give up on them, determined not to let them unravel..
Although Grandpa Kalle is willing to teach his granddaughter Luise how to swim, this project is not crowned with particular success. The problem: Grandpa Kalle doesn't know how to swim! However, he does not want to admit this to himself, but especially not to others. But when Claire, hated neighbor who also happens to be the lifeguard at the same time, discovers this, she can’t let go of this fact and before she knows it, she teaches an entire pensioners club on how to swim..
Director Jeanie Finlay charts a transgender man's path to parenthood after he decides to carry his child himself. The pregnancy prompts an unexpected and profound reckoning with conventions of masculinity, self-definition and biology..
Four (soon to be) transgender parents share their personal stories of what carrying their future children as transgender males is like..
A tired cab driver's spirit is tested early into his night shift when he picks up an unusual customer..
See the world through the comedy kaleidoscope of Adam's mind - there's much mirth to be mined from moving back in with your parents 'cause you're broke. Adam Hess presents a frivolous, rapid fire display of freaky family findings and sexual awakenings with hyperactive hilarity. Watch out for those skeletons in the closet (or attic)..
A stop-motion short film about a seahorse that is swept away from its coral reef and must survive the journey home..
Un vieil homme solitaire, passionné par le dressage des hippocampes, tente de réaliser un tour inimaginable..
With a horse's head, a monkey's tail and sex-swap parenting, seahorses are one of the ocean's strangest and most charismatic inhabitants. In this one hour special, wildlife filmmaker Natali Tesche-Ricciardi sets out to investigate something that most people don't realize - seahorse populations are in crisis from pollution and overfishing for tourist souvenirs, aquarium stock and traditional Chinese medicine. With the help of Project Seahorse, traders and fishermen are changing their ways to help wild seahorse populations. The future for wild seahorses remains uncertain but one fact cannot be disputed - our future generations will want to experience these enchanting fish - in their natural habitat and very much alive..
To many of us they are a figure of fancy on par with the unicorn. To scientists, however, the seahorse is a fascinating object of study. Unlike other animals, in seahorses it is the male who get pregnant and gives birth. But to populations around the world, the seahorse is something else again; considered a source of sexual prowess to proponents of traditional Chinese medicine, the magical seahorse is also a crucial source of income to fishermen in the Philippines who harvest and sell them to that burgeoning trade..
A lonely and intense man invites a mysterious woman he met online into his house. He gets much more than what he bargains for as this strange young woman takes over his life. What transpires is a dramatically intense and darkly comic journey about love, co-dependency and loss..
When the Coleman's inherit a run down Beach House on a tropical island, sixteen year old Lucy convinces her dad, Charlie, to fix the place up and in the process discover a part of their late Mother's life they knew nothing about..
From an audacious opening scene that runs over 22 minutes (before the credits!) to an ending that is as quiet as it is disquieting, SON OF A SEAHORSE is an unusual (and unusually satisfying) comedy from the Russells..
Since the death of her mother, eight-year-old Iranian Mina has lived with her biological father and his male partner in Berlin. Treated differently because of her family, Mina acts out against her dads. Family friend Shahla worries that Mina lacks female role models, and invites her to take part in a female-only religious ceremony, but she has her own problems with her rebellious teenage daughter. Rahman Milani astutely reveals the cross-cultural tensions between tradition and assimilation, religion and family, in his feature debut..