Movies Similar to Flowers for My Father

Happy Winter(2018)

Every summer on Palermo's Mondello beach, over 1,000 cabins are built in preparation of the Ferragosto holiday. Centered around a family who goes into debt, three women holding onto the feeling of youth, and a politician seeking votes -- a vanity fair of beachgoers hiding behind the memory of a social status that the economic crisis of recent years has compromised.

La journée de Milenka(2024)

A short film about the daily holiday life of an enigmatic and rather luminous creature. "La journée de Milenka" is a footage of her holiday in Italy. We decided not to record it as usual footages, but instead, focus on the time and space surrounding the character. It represents a day, in the afternoon, that reflect the peace, itself represented in the slowness, which Milenka aspires (and finds) to achieve.

Algorithms of Beauty(2022)

In 1772, Englishwoman Mary Delany wrote to her niece: “I have found a new way of imitating flowers.” The imitation in question was the art form called decoupage, based on cut-outs and reshuffling of pictures. The charm and botanical precision of these works attracts attention of even today’s artists, among others by an anonymous programmer who is trying to invent a way of capturing the flowers’ vivacity in pictures. With this aim in mind, she has created an algorithm, which would combine science and beauty, similarly to Delaney’s efforts, whose illustrations it is meant to animate.

Late Anthropocene(2016)

Hand processed expired Kodak 7291, Camera: Beaulieu R16, Lens: Angenieux 12-120mm with +3 Diopter, Polarising filter for the clouds. Hand processed in C-41 chem using a Lomo UPB-1A tank. Still haven't mastered removal of the rem-jet anti-halation layer (thats all the white 'static' on the film). The film expired about 40 years ago.

Conversation with Two Lovers(2025)

Shot in two places marrying with each other by a single and fractured bridge between Condrieu and les Roches-de-Condrieu, this film is the continuation of exploring ephemeral movement through the use of editing, camera movements and color sampling.

A Flower

Somewhere between the mountains and valleys a small autumn flower bloomed.

Summer Meadow(2024)

A close look at flowers and pollinators on a sunny summer morning.

Mountain Wildflowers(2024)

Mountain wildflowers in a dense fog.

Fog on the Mountain(2023)

Fog surrounds the peak of a mountain as summer wildflowers bloom.

vvvamor(2023)

A formally free poetic documentary filmed through a summer depression in northern Portugal.

How Flowers Make Seeds(1963)

Examines the lily to identify the parts of a flower and show how it functions in the production of seeds. Pictures a variety of other flowers and compares the flowering plants to some non-flowering plants.

Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly(2020)

Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly is a 56-minute narrated film that unfolds along the shores of Cape Ann and in the heart of Mexico’s forested volcanic mountains. Every stage of the butterfly’s life cycle is experienced in vibrant close-up, from mating to egg to caterpillar to adult, and set against the backdrop of sea and forest, sun and wind.

Chronicle of a Summer(1961)

Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life's misfortunes.

L'été des 20 bougies(2024)

Lesbians Go Mad In Lesbos(2001)

During Summer 2000, the mayor of the Greek island of Lesbos tried to ban 26 lesbians from arriving on a package holiday from the UK; but he ended up biting off more than he could chew. This programme follows the love, lust and laughs over the course of their holiday as the women drink, dance and snog their way around the island. Despite being shadowed by the papparazi and some negative islanders, nothing can stop our women from fighting for their right to party.

Memorial(2022)

A memorial mourns as time passes

I'm Thinking a lot of Thoughts Right Now(2023)

Four friends embark on a journey to California where they discover the beauty of friendship amidst the stunning landscapes of the West.

Summer 2024, a TSW story(2024)

Ces chansons de nos vacances(2022)

Love, Women and Flowers(1988)

Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.