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Showing 1 - 10 of 98 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Sociology of the Family
Al Djanat, the Original Paradise
After the death of her uncle, the director films her family courtyard in Burkina Faso as a dispute over the estate bursts out between advocates of traditional law and proponents of official law, inherited from European colonization.
Andana Films | 2023 | 83 minutes
Almost Friends
Two girls, one religious Jewish and the other Israeli-Arab whose father is from the Occupied Territories, start to correspond online and find themselves deep in a surprising, exciting, and stressful experience.
First Hand Films | 2014 | 58 minutes
Before Flying Back to the Earth
Building on the long earned trust of the children towards the camera, filmmaker Arunas Matelis skilfully applies a simple but highly effective narrative and thus manages to create an extraordinary film that avoids sentimentality but stays deeply moving.
First Hand Films | 2005 | 52 minutes
Berlin For Beginners - A Roma Home Movie
Humor, chutzpah and solidarity against poverty and exclusion: a Romanian family in Berlin.
First Hand Films | 2016 | 93 minutes
The Best of Both Worlds
Cohousing offers both privacy and community—the best of both worlds!
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 27 minutes
Beyond Men and Masculinity
This searching, provocative exploration of masculinity raises uncomfortable questions about the shape and definition of masculinity in modern society
GOOD DOCS | 2020 | 82 minutes
black enuf*
A queer oddball seeks approval from Black peers despite a serious lack of hip-hop credentials
GOOD DOCS | 2016 | 23 minutes
Blessed Unrest
The story of Michael Dodds as he reclaims his life's purpose and produces a symphony.
GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 63 minutes
Bringing Albert Home
Roger, Colette, and Nicole embark on an impossible mission: to bring their older brother's remains back to France, from the military cemetery in Oran where he was buried in 1944. To succeed, they must overcome administrative nightmares and, being over 90, learn to master technology: tablets, siri, texts, emails...
Andana Films | 2022 | 52 minutes
The Celine Archive
In 1932, Celine Navarro was buried alive by her own community in Northern California. This is an attempt to uncover the real story, revealing Navarro’s feminism and resistance in a time when neither was embraced, as well as the silences that haunt Filipino-American communities to this day.
Women Make Movies | 2020 | 69 minutes
