This programme brings together a range of stories centered on the complicated relationship between parents and children. These six short films reveal the notion of reunion and rediscovery, patriarchal oppression and conflict. Though each story gives birth to different feelings, the message is the same: family shapes our identity.

Beer

In a charming Lithuanian village, a delicate bond between a father and son unravels through an ancestral beer-making tradition as they prepare for the annual harvest celebration.

Milda Baginskaite

Clementine

In a provincial town, 18-year-old Clementine works at the farmer’s market with her oppressive father, until a coach from Athens discovers her talent in football.

George Stagakis

Common Fly

Nobody cares about Jeff, a middle aged housefly crushed by unfulfilled expectations. A dissatisfying marriage, insufferable children, and mind-numbing job push him to try to regain control of his life.

Ian Alexander Castracane

Findlater

In an apartment in Dublin City, two women meet in front of a microphone to discuss a shared past.

Allyn Quigley

Prikosymphono

Placed in Lefkada, an island in the Ionian Sea, a little girl finds a paper from 1955, that contains a list of objects that belonged to her great aunt and proceeds to ask her grandfather about it. He explains to her that this is the list of her dowry, an old Greek tradition, in which the bride's possessions were concede to the groom as a formal marriage agreement. Moved by this finding, he starts recalling memories of his childhood, witnessing his older sister Armenia, having an arranged marriage and leaving behind her family and the island for a better future.

Elena Gazi, Dolan Bailey, Alejandra Diaz, Leonardo Dal Fabbro

Simon

When Simon knocks on a couples door, he brings news that will turn their world upside down.

Ed Willey