overbearing mother

Frida, an 8-year-old engineering prodigy, builds an airplane behind her mother's back to follow in her Abuela's legacy.

After Phyllis discovers that her daughter Cecilia can read, she’s torn between abiding to her slave owner’s commands or encouraging her daughter that reading is a pathway to their freedom.

Dark, tragic comedy about a judgmental mother who learns her teenage daughter is into much older men, testing relationships and perceptions as one woman's denial leads to 'exceptance.'

A drama of a dynastic proportion, a young prince must decide between duty and desire when his parents reject his choice for a wife.

The film follows different stages in the life of Sofía, a young girl born in Argentina of Chinese descent. From her childhood to her adulthood, she's conflicted by the clash and fusion of both her cultures, all while facing a strenuous relationship with her mother Jia, who places concerns and demands on her.

When a man leaves his mistress to care for his seriously ill mother, the apartment becomes a battlefield between sexual manipulation and death, which stubbornly does not hurry to come.

Denying his flourishing compulsive homosexuality, a forgotten celebrity confronts his incestuous obsession along the path of self-discovery.

Stifled Ania, trapped in a grimy grocery store, is suffocating under her mother’s toxic control. Salvation arrives via a discarded cauliflower that, unsettlingly, starts talking. At first a witty mentor, the vegetable’s advice soon sours into a grotesque push for revenge. As her rebellion escalates from petty pranks to radical acts, Ania must decide: is this edible oracle her savior or a deranged voice of self destruction? A darkly comic journey where freedom tastes like rot.

When Dory’s bowl of cereal becomes mysteriously empty, she is forced down a path of unexplainable punishment, anxiety, and overbearing manipulation from her mother.

A young florist, who is allergic to flowers, gets the opportunity to save her shop by creating a flower arrangement.

A daughter returns to her childhood home for a meal, which her mother will only endure if she gets her daughter's severed eyeball in return.

Peter moves in with his long-term boyfriend Lloyd and tries to keep the nature of their relationship a secret from his visiting family. His mother is overbearing and conservative, while his brother, Paul, knows more than he is letting on. But a simple note written on the back of a postcard will reveal all.

In the middle of a trip, Rubí, an eight-year-old girl, discovers within herself a powerful desire to eat roses. The rigidity and severity of her mother forces her to act in secret, until her desire manages to transform into something else.