How has World Cinema from different periods and Industries has represented the relationships within and between generations, in all sorts of families including those important groups of friendship and more, with no genetic connections, the range of sexualities and the trans gender groups Nan Goldin has called tribes?We will explore these ideas through films like Chaplins the Kid, the family film making of the Marx Brothers, to the Neo Realist Bicycle Thieves, Ealings Hue and Cry, Rays World of Apu, Casavetes Gloria, Mike Leighs Life is Sweet, Almodovars All About My Mother and recent films like Kor-edas Shoplifters, Bong Joon Hos Parasite, Charlotte Wells Aftersun and Sciammas Petite Maman and Girlhood.