Hometown Movies

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...

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...

When Conrad returns to his hometown to identify his mother's body, he is forced to confront the painful memories of his childhood.

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...

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...

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...

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...

After several years of sexual dysfunction, Ada and her boyfriend, Calvin travel to her hometown in rural Oklahoma in hopes of piecing together her...

After his father's death, a young man searches to find who his dad was only to stumble onto himself.

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...

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 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...

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

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

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

An aging out of work clown returns to his small hometown, resigned to spend the rest of his days in a drunken stupor. But when his passion for...

A filmmaker journeys back to the significant places of his Kentucky upbringing to preserve the memories they still hold.

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

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...