Storyline: Daughters

A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon, formerly a colonial outpost, where she's flooded by memories, particularly of her servant.

A touching drama about a father who traces the footsteps of his deceased daughter through Marseille.

Denis Patar is a loving but overwhelmed single father of two daughters. After another failure, he is assigned an employee of the Youth Welfare Office.

A South American drama about 17-year-old Valeria, who is pregnant, and her relationship with her own mother.

Amami-Oshima Island in Japan. A 14-year-old boy finds a body floating in the sea. He asks his girlfriend for help.

In this touching Iranian drama, Fereshteh has to find a place to hide her newborn, illegitimate daughter.

Vera lives in her father's shadow. One day, she develops an intense relationship with a father and son, and discovers real life.

Two childhood friends from the same Innu community in Quebec begin to realize that they face very different futures.

A daughter trying to fix the unfixable with the help of an experimental method from China.

Olga, who is grieving for her mother and also anorexic, is sent to a psychiatrist who is dealing with her own losses in an unusual way.

When a mother and her daughter take a vacation at the Baltic Sea, it quickly turns into a journey into the past that opens up old wounds.

Caught between German stuffiness and Argentinian religiosity, Madi discovers her own sexuality.

This heart-warming documentary uses beautiful images to tell the story of two sisters who break a vicious circle.

In the vast emptiness of the Patagonian steppe, 13-year-old Mora embarks on a journey with an old, indigenous Mapuche gaucho.

For a young Kurdish woman, the entrance exam for university will decide, if she can live freely or has to submit to the men in her life.

A multi-layered drama that skillfully explores how both feelings and memories stay locked away in post-reunification East Germany.

In a traditional Azorean island, Ana's journey of self-discovery and queer friendship challenges the confines of her world.

In her surreal and fantastic debut, Flávia Neves masterfully combines the search for her own origins with Brazil's colonial past.

As death approaches, repressed secrets emerge from the dark recesses of a wealthy but emotionally cold family.

A touching portrayal of seventeen-year-old Ieva and her ex-alcoholic father’s attempt at rebuilding their tenuous relationship.

From one moment to the next, actress Lucie is a knight, sword in hand, donned in armor and setting off on quixotic quests.

A group of radical climate activists takes matters into their own hands and eliminates suspected climate sinners.

Menachem, a widowed father is a former rock singer and has left everything behind to become part of the ultra orthodox jewish community.

Under the eerie penumbra of ash an spewing volcano Cotopaxi, a young woman confronts dormant familial conflicts.

Delightfully light-hearted and wonderfully honest coming-of-age story that flows seamlessly between fiction to documentary.

Deeply humanist drama centred on the strength and resilience of women in the face of a dangerously patriarchal society.

Visually colorful, gritty in content, Japanese erotic revenge film by the master of the pink film genre, Kan Mukai.

An adeptly played debut in which a yearning for paternal affection plays out against a background of teenage sexual manipulation.

After the success of his series "Ebersberg", director Manuel Weiss takes a father-daughter duo into the gloomy depths of the German forest.

Comedian and director Gessica Généus (FREDA) explores the connection between voodoo beliefs, Christianity and the treatment of mental illness in Haiti

Haitian anthropology student FREDA must navigate the tensions between family expectations, postcolonial structures, Christianity, and voodoo.

In this autobiographical doc, Biene Pilavci portrays her family life, which during childhood was often marked by violence at the hands of her parents.

In a dystopian Mexico, a drug-addicted father tries to survive, as a groundskeeper at a baseball field, with his young daughter Huck.

Lighthearted comedy explores the disillusionment, shame and disconnect between well-educated, yet underemployed Millennials, and their fed-up parents.

Emma's father was a lighting technician at a theater in the Alps until his accidental death. Since then, she has suffered from stage fright.

Isolated from the outside world a mother lives with her daughter in a remote house. The mother is training her daughter to be a survival specialist.

When two estranged half-sisters are forced to move in together, they must confront their shared past and decades of pent-up resentment.

DEADLOCK hints at what German film could have become without all the state subsidized funding of navel-gazing and art for art's sake.

As reports of shark sightings create panic in a small beach town, 14-year-old Rosina begins to circle her own prey.

A reactor safety engineer follows the trail of his disappearing daughter through the Kafkaesque West German province.

Touching dramedy about the hardworking staff of a maternity ward and the secret past of one of the nurses.

In search of her daughter, Agnes meets a bon vivant in the juggernaut that is Berlin.

The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin Trilogy", which shows young people with a Turkish migration history from their own perspective.

This is a story about a young family - about the virtues of love, curiosity and joy - but also about violence and disassociation.

Chantal Akerman weaves a haunting tale of greed, alienation, and cultural dissonance, reimagining Joseph Conrad’s 1895 novel into the 20th century.

After the death of her grandmother Kati meets her biological mother Iris, who is just twice as old as she is and also a professional pickpocket.

One man's acts of political violence in 1970s Italy rebound on his family decades later.

This Ecuadorian thriller takes on modern-day slavery, human trafficking, and the opioid crisis in a unique visual style.

After a passionate romance, an Afghan student must face patriarchal power structures alone.

To avoid homelessness, a mother resorts to extreme measures in this accomplished and touching and subtle drama.