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Dinner with the Family
Glenside 2022 Winter Holiday Movies
St. Charles Public Library - Winter Holiday Movies
Glenside 2022 Winter Holiday Movies
St. Charles Public Library - Winter Holiday Movies
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It follows the Cooper clan as four generations of extended family come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration. As the evening unfolds, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
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The story of an Indian American woman’s struggle to stay connected to India after the loss of her father. Like most second-generation ethnic Americans, Indira Somani has struggled with identity issues, since her parents migrated to the U.S. in the 1960's. Being born and brought up in the U.S. Indira led an American life, but at home, her world was Indian because of her father’s immense love for India and Indian culture.. CROSSING LINES takes you...
4) Arctic Air
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Set in the booming Canadian north about a maverick airline and the extended family of unconventional people who run it.
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A spectacular tale set among ancient ruins in the storied jungles of South Asia. Maya, a clever and resourceful monkey, finds her world forever changed when she welcomes her son Kip into her colorful extended family. As Maya strives to keep Kip safe through unexpected and sometimes perilous adventures, amazing footage captures all the magic and surprises of their magnificent world.
10) Meet the Patels
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In this real-life "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," an Indian-American man who is about to turn 30 gets help from his parents and extended family so he can start looking for a wife the traditional Indian way.
11) Talk to Me
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Adre, Emma, and Julian are in public school autism programs in Oakland, CA. This engaging film documents their lives at home and at school, and profiles the valiant efforts of their parents and teachers to help them reach their maximum potential. This film is especially recommended for parents, siblings, extended family members, and friends who are unfamiliar with an autism diagnosis.
12) Sound and Fury
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Academy Award-nominated Sound and Fury follows the intimate, heart-rending tale of the Artinians, an extended family with deaf and hearing members across three generations. Focuses on two the families with young deaf children and their conflict over whether or not to give their children cochlear implants, surgically implanted devices that may improve their ability to hear but may threaten their Deaf identity.
14) Tesnota
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Russian
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TESNOTA (CLOSENESS, 2017) is the incendiary debut feature from the young and brilliant Kantemir Balagov (Beanpole). 1998, Nalchik, the North Caucasus, Russia. 24-year-old Ilana works in her father’s garage to help him make ends meet. One evening, her extended family and friends gather to celebrate the engagement of her younger brother David. Later that night, the young couple is kidnapped, and a ransom demand delivered. In this close-knit Jewish...
15) Valentina
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Romany
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Valentina lives among her extended family in the poor quarters of a Roma neighborhood in Macedonia. The ten-year-old girl is a tomboy and a highly gifted storyteller. Via quirky anecdotes, surreal daydreams and painful memories, Valentina introduces us to her family: we observe her father Asim collecting bulky rubbish, her mother Naile begging, her sister Ramize braiding hair, her brother Ferdi who is full of mischief and her granddad who can only...
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This holiday season, Chef Lynn has something extra special planned: Coast to coast, north and south, over and over, the folks she met on her incredible Pitchin’ In journey said they couldn’t wait to see her again because she “felt just like family”; and, almost always, she felt the exact same way. So this year, she’s invited some of this new extended family to share Christmas dinner with her at her house. Not only that—she wants them to...
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Alice Gloomgardy waits until Christmas Eve morning to tell her father that she won't be home for Christmas. She then finds out her two siblings also waited until the last minute to tell their dad. He thought all his kids were coming home this year; now he must spend Christmas alone. To make up for it, Alice decides to throw a Gloomgardy Zoom Party for her father and invites all of her wacky extended family. Things get complicated when her dad doesn't...
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In 1951, the Marshall family set out to document the life of the Bushmen of the Kalahari. After a week of hard travel in desert-adapted vehicles, they met Toma Tsamkxao and his Ju/'hoan band in Nyae Nyae. In their own words, Toma's extended family describes how they survive by gathering bush foods and hunting game. Thus begins a relationship between the Ju/'hoansi and the Marshalls that will last over half a century.
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In the auction system there are often too few homes for sale and too many people wanting to buy. This episode follows three families attempting to buy a home at auction"”a young couple from England who feel like they've landed on another planet, an extended family of six who are just learning how to play the game, and a wealthy couple who simply can't find what they want for less than a few million dollars. Uncertain of their futures and feeling...
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Ashley, a young Native-American Caucasian girl, converts to Islam in hopes of finding structure in a life where it never existed. Surrounded by drugs and alcohol, at age 8 Ashley becomes a ward of the state. She is separated from her brother and shuffled between the homes of extended family members where she bares witness to prostition, drug dealing and her own mother’s overdose.. As a teenager Ashley seeks stability and unexpectedly finds it in...
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