Hometown Movies

In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's front page.

A young journalist returns home to work in the local newspaper. There again see his girlfriend, who is now engaged. For her, this reunion will be a...

A group of high school friends reunite in their hometown for the funeral of an old buddy, 'Bender'; they will spend a weekend struggling to accept...

In their hometown, a writer named Caesar and his closest friend Leonardo go on a final exploration of the city before Caesar's departure. Throughout...

Life on the land is undergoing a fundamental change: the villages are dying out, people go away, the houses remain empty. Frank is facing a major...

Mick learns about the death of his father through a phone call. Now he needs to return to a home he hasn't been to in 25 years to face his Demons. ...

A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the...

A story of adoption told without glamour and hypocrisy that usually accompanies this topic.Anna is a top model, who was adopted by a French couple as...

Jose is a biologist who suddenly needs to return to his hometown because his mother has passed away. She left him a large inheritance with a very...

Lea, who has repressed the memory of possibly having killed someone when she was a child, lives in New York City, is prescription drug dependent and...

As Tania leaves her hometown, she must confront what her absence will mean in the search for her disappeared father.

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

When a young man returns to his hometown to assist with a friend's trial it soon becomes clear that he isn't the beacon of success that everyone...

Story follows two best friend on private investigation. They are going to their hometown to prove that Michals mother was killed by his stepmother.

When Emma returns to her hometown for Christmas after years away, she reconnects with Ryan, who never left. Drawn together by holiday traditions and...

Narrator John Nesbitt reminisces about his hometown and childhood in this Passing Parade series short.

During business trip Yohei Tanaka prays at a local shrine. Much to his surprise, his wishes come true. He wins some money at the lottery and cures...

An ambient piece created to preserve the memory of the director's childhood home prior to renovations. The film itself is shot from the perspective...

Giacomo, a second-generation Italian-Chinese youngman, travels to Wencheng County to bring his late father’s ashes back to his hometown. There...