Oedipus Complex

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

Louis is unable to father a child and his wife Sascha has been inseminated artificially. As she gives birth to Daniel, Louis is hit with an unbearable sadness and detachment that only grows bigger as Daniel grows up and the rift between husband and wife grows bigger.

Tragedy strikes a young boy and his over-protective mother.

When an attorney meets the girl of his dreams, he fears that his batty mother will scare her off, so he schemes to eliminate the senile old woman.

After the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.

Arrogant young art student Marco is friendly with medical student Timothy and his girlfriend Sarah. Timothy is dominated by his beautiful mother Carol, who is divorcing her husband. Marco finds a studio apartment, and Timothy pays the first two months' rent, planning to move in with his friend. Carol prevents the move, and Sarah, who has fallen in love with Marco, moves in instead. During a party at her weekend cottage, Carol becomes furious when she finds Marco and Sarah making love in Timothy's room, and she orders Marco from the house. Later, Marco seduces Carol, then scornfully leaves for the party. He arrives drunk, accompanied by a streetwalker, and tells Sarah how he took Carol to bed.

A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband, who possesses their young son.

Miguel is a 14-year-old kid about to go back to a centre for minors. His mother, out of work and with an unstable personal life, is incapable of taking care of him. This is why Miguel lives in a state of constant urgency, doing the housework, selling Kleenex or stealing from supermarkets. All this ends when Social Services come for him again, and his mother makes him seek refuge in the house of Bogdan, a Rumanian ex-lover of hers who lives in a nearby town. At the same time, María, the owner of a bar, sympathizes with the boy and gives him the virtually maternal treatment that he does not get in his own home. However, everything is thrust forward when the mother suddenly disappears.

1962. Joseph, 13 years old, a choirboy and a true "light" of religion, set out to become Pope. Not less. Of Spanish origin, Angela and José, her parents, fled their country and misery to settle in a small village around Perpignan. Angela, sensual and beautiful to damn a saint, is an attentive and possessive mother. Joseph, this only son, she feels that she has received him as a gift from heaven. So she puts all her energy and maternal love overflowing to encourage the vocation of her son, unlike José who wishes for him a "normal" life, a life of man, simply.

Given up for adoption as a toddler, troubled teenager Thomas becomes obsessed with tracking down his birth mother. After years of searching, Thomas finds her single, with a small child, living in a nearby suburb and begins a relationship with her which slowly drives him to an act of madness.

A semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.

Clara, an attractive unmarried woman, and her autistic child who transforms and absorbs her life, provide an extreme dissection of the mother-child bond in an uneasily honest way.

Matias is a young artist. Following his father's advice, he tries to fight against the rat race.

A young man, haunted by his past, travels the land in search of the lyrics to a lullaby his mother used to sing to him.

Interpretation of the poem Eros Ja Psykhe by Eeva-Liisa Mannerin, which in turn is an allegory of the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche.

The summer of 1951 a couple get their first and only child. A boy. Or is it? Ouside the birds stop singing, and there's a solar eclipse. The parents deny an operation which could make Adrian a whole human being.

Lars' life is dedicated to his disabled mother and his job at a petrol station. The only light in his life is Julie, who lives in his apartment building and often drops by his petrol station. One day when she faints at his feet, he seizes the opportunity and takes her home. When she wakes up confused and in denial, she believes that Lars is her dead boyfriend Soren. Now Lars must decide whether he wants to help Julie back to reality or let her remain in the belief that he is her boyfriend--and he chooses to become Soren. For the first time in his life he focuses on himself and his own hopes and dreams for the future. Soon Lars and Julie disappear into their own closed, happy world, where only they know the rules. Lars' mother and Julie's parents fight to bring their adult children back to reality. Simultaneously Lars and Julie fight the forces trying to separate them. Until a magic moment when they decide to escape.

15-year-old Sigurd lives with his young mother Marianne in a seedy apartment in Copenhagen. She just met Peter, who wants to make a good impression on Sigurd. But Sigurd is worried about his mother and is skeptical of Peter.

A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.

Although Zehra was pregnant with her lover Onur when she was only 18, she left him. Nowadays, she lives with her son Anil and husband Görkem in a coastal town close to the city. One day she realizes that she was raped suspiciously. A private investigator follows this suspicious event.

This dialog-free film, originally presented as 33 short films, is an experimental, bizarre set of meditations and flashbacks of the grotesque.

A young Terry Lambert returns home after serving a prison sentence for a gang rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him.

A short film, done in epic style, on the story of Oedipus.