Centre Film Festival 2025

MOTHERS and OTHERS

Expired November 25, 2025 4:45 AM
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15 films in package
She Raised Me
The Rope
Hex
A festive evening turns tense as a mother’s ideals are tested by old family dynamics.
Everybody Knows
Jo is thrown into a family event where everybody knows that they have recently had a mental health breakdown.
Gallina
In rural Spain, ten-year-old Pablo loves spending time at his granny’s countryside home, playing with his younger sister Alba and his best friend Martín.
Kidney Trial
Dana, a devout follower of the Breslov Hasidic movement who believes solely in God’s power, struggles with her daughter’s illness at the hospital. An encounter with Marva, the nurse caring for her, challenges her beliefs and opens new horizons of faith, understanding, and hope.
Jimmy
An Excess Baggage
Trapped in an intense, suffocating bond with her ten-year-old daughter, a fragile mother battles her own emotional turmoil over the course of a single day, as love, frustration, and loneliness collide — revealing the silent violence of a woman on the edge of herself.
Finir au Soleil
The mother of Louis, 9 years old, acts increasingly distant. Louis doesn't really realize it until the day she goes away for an entire evening.
The Embrace
When the world is crumbling, where to find hope? A 50-year-old Argentine tango teacher, Carolina Pirotta’s precariously-built world is upended by the election of a right wing populist. Offering an intimate lens on a life lived amid economic turmoil, this film dives into a world of tango that refuses to be bound by tradition - examining issues of power, resistance and resilience in the process. Through tracing Carolina’s steps, it also takes the audience on a poetic journey from the neon-drenched dancehalls and protest-packed streets of Buenos Aires to the sunset-bathed mountains of Patagonia.
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Such A Pretty Girl
Meg has returned to her childhood home to help her aging father. But when her twelve-year-old uncovers a long-forgotten relic from her past, Meg must decide in a matter of moments who she'll protect: her parent or her child.
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Inkwo for When the Starving Return
Dove, a gender-shifting warrior, uses their Indigenous medicine (Inkwo) to protect their community from an unburied swarm of terrifying creatures.
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Baba I'm Fine
A teen battles heartbreak while spending Friday out with her father.
Hope... in the Aftermath of War
After returning from combat, a soldier’s struggle with trauma, addiction, and fractured family ties forces her daughter to confront the quiet war unfolding at home—one that neither of them signed up for but both must survive.
The Third Child
Mehdi, the only hearing member of his deaf family, once struggled with speech but now pursues his dream of becoming a professional voice actor.
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Spanning drama, comedy, documentary, and hybrid genres, these films illuminate the everyday heroism of caregiving, the legacies passed through generations, and the profound influence of matriarchs on identity, resilience, and connection. This global-local collection honors the women whose strength shapes the worlds around them.

When the world is crumbling, where to find hope? A 50-year-old Argentine tango teacher, Carolina Pirotta’s precariously-built world is upended by the election of a right wing populist. Offering an intimate lens on a life lived amid economic turmoil, this film dives into a world of tango that refuses to be bound by tradition - examining issues of power, resistance and resilience in the process. Through tracing Carolina’s steps, it also takes the audience on a poetic journey from the neon-drenched dancehalls and protest-packed streets of Buenos Aires to the sunset-bathed mountains of Patagonia.

  • Year
    2025
  • Runtime
    16:30
  • Language
    Spanish
  • Country
    Argentina
  • Director
    John Owens
  • Producer
    John Owens
  • Cast
    Carolina Pirotti
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