Anak (2022)
• August 7th, 2022 • 1h 31min
Drama
Overview
Masculinity, race and boyhood simmer in this stylish slow-cinema debut about a Filipino-Australian father and his six-year-old son, who are navigating a family divorce. Exploring the complexities of family, society and culture that shape young Filipinos, this feature debut from rising filmmaker Caleb Ribates depicts the tender relationship between an immigrant father and his young son as they deal with being abandoned by the boy’s mother. With its evocative black-and-white cinematography, long takes and naturalistic dialogue, Anak follows in the footsteps of slow-cinema masters like Lav Diaz and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, while finding an intimacy and tonal register that is all Ribates’ own.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Straight Story
Released on: 1999-10-15
Drama
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...
Summer '04
Released on: 2006-10-11
Drama, Romance
Sommer ’04 is a character study of a family on vacation. German director Stefan Krohmer examines the...
Bend It Like Beckham
Released on: 2002-04-11
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized so...
Man of Conflict
Released on: 1953-11-04
Drama
Young man comes home to get ready to take over the family company, only to find that his father has ...
The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse
Released on: 2010-03-01
Crime, Drama, Family
Directed in 1980 and released in 2013. On the issue of addiction in Iran in the 1980s. Mohsen's fat...
The War of the Roses
Released on: 1989-12-08
Comedy, Drama
Barbara and Oliver Rose live happily as a married couple. When Barbara starts to wonder what life wo...
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Released on: 2003-06-29
Documentary, Drama
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed ...
The Good Shepherd
Released on: 2006-12-11
Drama, Thriller, History
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...
Don't Worry, I'm Fine
Released on: 2006-09-06
Drama
A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with the...
The Host
Released on: 2006-07-27
Horror, Drama, Science Fiction
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han Rive...
Sequoia
Released on: 2014-03-09
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commi...
The Cave of the Yellow Dog
Released on: 2005-07-27
Drama
The little nomad girl, Nansal, finds a baby dog in the Mongolian veld, who becomes her best friend -...
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Released on: 1998-09-04
Drama, Mystery, Romance
Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, p...
The Virgin Suicides
Released on: 2000-04-21
Drama
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their stri...
Thumbsucker
Released on: 2005-09-16
Comedy, Drama
Justin Cobb, a teenager in suburban Oregon, copes with his thumb-sucking problem, romance, and his d...
Games of Love and Chance
Released on: 2003-11-25
Romance, Drama
A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Mar...
Pieces of April
Released on: 2003-10-17
Comedy, Drama
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment mil...
Flying Blind
Released on: 2020-09-18
Drama
A young man, in the midst of an existential crisis, goes to his uncle for help.
The Next Level
Released on: 2024-06-03
Drama, Comedy
After a deadly accident and a tough move, a young basketball player must learn to overcome adversity...