Movies: Single parent

Three perspectives on loneliness, how it feels and how it can be survived: “If I could just dance with somebody once more.”...

Zi Kien and his mother Ah Lin only have each other in their lives until one day, Ah Lin starts dating Mr. Lee. Zi Kien feels his place in his mother's life is threatened, and he starts to change himself. This is a story about a mother and son who car...

A young mother navigates the New York City subway system in order to get her baby to daycare on time....

Single mother and autistic daughter Yan live together with endless fights because they never agree with each other. It is only through Yan's painting that her mother realizes her wish is just to grow up happily and healthily for both of them....

OB navigates a laundromat’s nighttime inhabitants while scavenging 50¢ to buy a Hero-themed gumball....

It's Christmas eve. An inebriated dad brings home to his adolescent son a gift he hopes will mend their faltering relationship, a Fookah, a devilish and disgusting creature that in turns wrecks havoc on their lives....

A family affected by the opioid crisis struggles to stay together....

An entitled karen enters a small seaside cafe, only to make a fuss about nothing. In the end, she complained to the manager to get the barista fired. Having no where to go, Joana with her only daughter, was forced to do the unthinkable....

Since the mother left, the relationship between Aksa and his father, Anton becomes tenuous. Anton still have deep worries over his wife's left and becomes apathetic to Aksa. Their cold and full of tension relationship makes Aksa can't communicate wit...

One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home and gets into trouble....

Julia and her son Dani with ADHD attend a birthday party to which they haven’t been invited. Parents seem reluctant to let them in but they end up letting them pass. The party goes on well until an aggression between the kids makes the adults to blam...

Clarissa is a driven, straight-talking single Black mother and social warrior in Oakland, California. Becoming unhoused with an infant inspired her to champion childcare and preschool as a human right. Funny and irreverent, Clarissa's infectious ener...

A single mother struggles with the futility of her relationship with her special needs son as her patience grows thin....

A documentary about single mothers by choice....

Portraits of three single fathers....

A coming-of-age drama about a first-generation college graduate returning home to their single mother, and just how isolating change can feel....

Following a single father & his 3 kids, watch the struggle, stress, & strength of what the everyday life is like growing up & those growing pains called life....

A documentary film about two single mothers....