Hai cercato: This Is My Father
In Search of My Father / 2018
In a different generation that holds similarities to this one, our fathers who had dreams and hopes beyond the poverty began their youths suffering from unemployment and struggling to earn money. However, they say those times were like Utopia. They even say they are sorry for not being able to present youths today with the same experiences. They were known as 'work animals' because all they did was work, but they proudly say did that to feel accomplished at the end of the day. It was a world where the working environment was decent. However, once the jobs that they spent their whole youths on disappeared, they reminisced over them in silence. They are trying to return the favor to their families now. This documentary is the confession from our fathers who devoted everything to work.
Scenes with My Father / 2022
Biserka Šuran was two when her family fled the former Yugoslavia. At the time, her father thought that their youngest daughter would be the least affected by this sudden departure. In her directorial debut, Šuran enters into a conversation with her father about their shared past, the history of the Balkans and what it means for their identity.
To My Father With Love / 2010
The film tells the story of Márcio, a young victim of an express kidnapping. For a mistake in a telephone call, the bad guys negotiate with Bruno, a crossword addicted. Thinking that it is just a joke, he decides to enter the "joke" and ends up surprising the kidnappers.
To My Dearest Father / 2003
plot is unknown
Father in My Eyes / 1986
Short film by documentary director Shi Jian.
Hermann My Father / 1987
"Hermann mein Vater" is a companion piece by director Helma Sanders-Brahms to her 1980 film "Germany Pale Mother". The latter work was focused on the impact of war on a German family. This made-for-tv documentary follows Sanders-Brahms and her father Hermann on a trip to Normandy, where he was stationed as a soldier in 1940-41.
My Father Is on the Tree / 1969
A young man is shunned by his friends after he starts an affair with a dancer.
The Cane of My Father / 2000
A story of a big family living in French countryside between First and second world wars.
Sea of My Father / 2023
When he is at sea, he remembers his little daughter, and then, after many months of separation, he goes to her across the country and remembers the sea.
My Childish Father / 1953
A middle-aged man, an architect by trade, decides to make an end run around getting married. He marries a charming young woman, tenderly in love, who proves incapable of holding him back and, above all, of making him work. But a young American arrives in Paris and reveals that he is the architect's natural son. At first reluctant, the latter and his young wife quickly adapt to the new situation, until the son, a businessman through and through, wants to share with his father his ideas on life, which can be summed up in one sentence: hard work, with no time for pleasure. The father is quick to balk, and the son is forced to unwillingly participate in the fickle architect's nightlife. Eventually, the father is able to settle down, while the son, having acquired a taste for love, has a good time.
A Parigi in vacanza / 1958
Roger, editor of a women's magazine, meets Roberte, his friend Jean's former mistress, at a major couturier's during a collection presentation. Roberte, who now lives in Florence with her niece Maria, asks Roger to arrange a student exchange so that Maria can come to Paris to perfect her French. Roger approaches Jean's son Philippe, a student at the Beaux-Arts, who agrees to go to Florence. Maria and Philippe meet on the platform at Pisé station. They miss their respective trains and take a walk together. A flirtation begins, then each goes back to the other. Jean finds Maria charming and, like an unrepentant Don Juan, decides to win her over, but thanks to his old maid, his intrigues come to nothing and Maria can marry Philippe.
Vai alla scheda del filmHe is My Enemy, Partner and Father-In-Law / 1999
He Is My Enemy, Partner and Father-In-Law is a Hong Kong Action Comedy starring Danny Lee and Nick Cheung.
Who killed my father? /
55 years after the mysterious death of father and grandfather Ramiro Endara, Lourdes, with the help of her daughter Camila, begins an investigation looking for the truth, but the clues are little.
My Father, Nour and I / 2023
After twenty years, Wiam Al Zabari starts a conversation with his father. Why did they flee from Iraq? Why was that never discussed? Will he be able to let go of the past and embrace a Dutch future?
Peron, My Father and I / 2017
"I competed with Peron for my father's attention". Other than Blas Martínez, there aren't many people who can make that claim and have it be true. Journalist and writer Tomás Eloy Martínez's son narrates his relation with his father from his bond with peronism and the consequences that it brought to the author of Saint Evita and The Peron Novel.
Hard Goodbyes: My Father / 2002
Elias is a 10 year old boy living in Athens with his family in 1969 and has an interest in Jules Verne's stories and in astronomy. His father, with whom Elias has a strong relationship, is a travelling salesman and his absence affects the whole family. On the eve of his departure for a long business trip he promises his son that he'll be back in time to watch the moon landing on TV together, but he is killed in a car accident. While Elias' mother and his elder brother deal with the loss in their own way, Elias refuses to accept his father's death. He creates an imaginary world, in which his father is alive. He shares fictitious stories with his friends, he sends letters to his grandmother on behalf of his father and he dreams of places like he did with him. Elias' mother and his godfather, who do everything to bring him back to reality, take him to a summer house. On the night of the moon landing Elias meets his father in his own way and comes to terms with his loss.
Vai alla scheda del filmThe Nazis, My Father, and Me /
New York, 1941, shortly before the US enters the war. Stevie Mayer is an intelligent twelve-year-old who’s father suddenly disappears after being chased by two threatening men. Alone and unprotected, Stevie is left with a mysterious suitcase that everybody wants and nobody is who they claim to be. Thrown headlong into a mind-twisting plot, Stevie begins to suspect that his father is part of ring of Nazi spies. With the help of Miriam, a young Jewish refugee in his class, Stevie attempts to unravel the puzzle that leads to an explosive conclusion. It is a tale of non-stop adventure and a budding young love.
My father at grandma’s funeral / 2019
For its grandma's funeral, the child goes to its father's hometown. Facing the argument with his wife, the hostile relatives and his mother's death, the father cries before his child for the first time.
My Father's Happy Years / 1977
Director Sandor Simo based this film on his recollections of a period in his father's life just after World War II. In the film, Janos Torok is a chemist and an entrepreneur With enormous enthusiasm, he gets loans to purchase a small chemical plant and begins experiments to create innovative products, such as hormones. Meanwhile, the communist party has come to dominate Hungarian life in such a way that his activities are viewed as little more than criminal. He is hauled away to a prison camp, but even then his letters home are full of boundless optimism and his ideas for further experiments.