Beginnings

Social workers dispel myths about why children are removed from their biological parents, breaking down their overwhelming workload. Lawyers uncover t...

SHE IS US: THE STORY OF JUDGE SONGHAI ARMSTEAD is an animated film that chronicles the extraordinary story of social justice warrior Songhai Armstead...

Takes a first hand look at what happens to children when they are taken from their abusive families and become dependents of the State of Florida. 'Fo...

Gives voice to the experiences of Irish institution survivors and focuses on the life and upbringing of one survivor, Anne Silke. Silke was fostered o...

Filmmaker Stephen Hosier takes a journey with Richard Csanyi, his childhood friend, as he investigates the life and death of his twin brother Attila,...

The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she prov...

In her most recent film, Linda Kallistová Jablonská observes three girls growing up in a residential facility in Počátky, Czech Republic, over the cou...

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

Inspired by real events, a reclusive undertaker is forced to take in the children of a deceased distant relative. When the older sister uncovers her s...

Fresh out of foster care at age 18, a young drifter turns to petty crime to survive, and discovers an impossible love in an unlikely friend.

Led by Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, 22 families from a rural Black church in the small East Texas town of Possum Trot adopt 77 of the most difficul...

Bonnie, a nine-year-old single child, is part of a family of three living in the Netherlands. They have a love of elephants, passed on by Bonnie's gra...

Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow he...

Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.