Matriarch
Afflicted with a mysterious disease after surviving an overdose, a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her personal demons but instead discovers a real one.
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Afflicted with a mysterious disease after surviving an overdose, a woman returns to her childhood home to confront her personal demons but instead discovers a real one.
Seventeen-year-old Kim lives with her emotionally distant mother, mute younger brother, and strangers hiding in a secret room in their apartment at the Baltic coast. Vietnamese migrants regularly pass through their home
A pregnant woman and her husband are taken in by a farmer and his wife after crashing their car in the Scottish countryside. Once inside, they realize their hosts’ daughter is a missing child from the news years earlier.
The story of Jasna, a Croatian ex-pat who, due to her mother Anka's declining health, is forced to return to a place she has been avoiding most of her life - her home. The two haven't been in touch for years, but the pro
This coming-of-age film tells the story of a single mother’s journey to overcome major depression as well as the economic pressures of post-2008 America.
Matriarch is an experimental short documentary celebrating the legacy of elderly motherhood from the perspective of the filmmaker's grandmothers, two Southern Black women hoping to maintain their independence during what
Thirteen-year-old Missy kills her addict mother's boyfriend, Trent, in self defence. When her vengeful mother Annette tries to murder her as penance, Missy is forced to fight for survival in her own home.
Martta and Otto are a pair of traveling tailors who claim to be bastard descendants of the Romanovs and wander from town to town in Finland seeking work, accompanied by their two half-witted adult sons, Hippo, Repe and e
In 2011, Maren Hassinger and daughter Ava Hassinger formed the artist duo Matriarch. Wind, the only collaborative video produced by Matriarch, revisits the East Hampton region where Ava grew up and her mother first expe
The cult of the Madonna dell'Arco dates back to the 1400s, when a young believer, after losing a game of pallamaglio, threw a ball in anger at a portrait of the Madonna under a Roman arch. The Madonna began to bleed. The
To punish her son, a mother hires a monster to take him away. She pays the monster and waits for the return of a statue made from her son's body parts.
Danielle travels to New Orleans to meet her grandmother and uncover the truth about her mother's death. Drawn into a dangerous feud with the rival Benoit family, Danielle learns her mother’s death was no accident and mus
The Real Matriarch takes a look at the politics, life and professions of four prominent women from Newfoundland and Labrador: Lois Brown, Barbara Doran, Edythe Goodridge, and Mrs. Sarah Sexton. Media clips and interviews
When an innocent young mother turns up dead on the tracks, the small town of Findlay, Ohio, must figure out who would take the life of such a kind soul.
This “love letter to grandma” is voiced by a third-generation Dominican-American filmmaker as she uncovers her family heritage by examining the life of her grandmother who immigrated to the U.S in the 1960s.
From the tale of "Kana'ti and Selu," a Cherokee origin epic myth, "Death of a Matriarch" is an impressionistic stop-motion short.
A gripping documentary about the life of Margaret Ann Taylor Hines—the iconic matriarch of the Hines family—told in her own words and rendered by her adoring granddaughters.
A shelter is threatened by shutdown and demolition. 60 women of different ages, nationalities and social backgrounds gather in order to defend it, attempting to redefine their place in today's world.
A penitentiary parlor. A mother and her son meet for the first time since the young rebel took part in a bloody robbery.
The film belongs to the 'migration cycle' in the Bulgarian cinema. It is about the drama of a group of women who have been left alone in their 'female kingdom' - a village deserted by its entire men folk.