DOC NYC 2019

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Mother Mother
Mother and About Love
About Love (Year: 2019; Director: Archana Atul Phadke)
The household dynamics of three generations of a family are explored as they prepare for a wedding.
Blessed Child (Country: US; Year: 2019; Director: Cara Jones; Writer: Josh Alexander, Cara Jones, Jean Kawahara)
Considering the director's upbringing within the Unification Church of Reverend Sun Myung Moon.
Daddy And The Warlord (Country: Netherlands, Liberia, US; Year: 2019; Director: Shamira Raphaela, Clarice Gargard)
The director goes on a personal investigation into her estranged father's ties to war criminal Charles Taylor.
Madame (Country: Switzerland; Year: 2019; Director: Stéphane Riethauser)
Caroline, a flamboyant 90-year-old grandmother and her filmmaker grandson Stéphane explore the development and transmission of gender identity in a patriarchal environment.
Mother (Country: Belgium; Year: 2019; Director: Kristof Bilsen; Writer: Kristof Bilsen, Xan Márquez Caneda)
In Thailand, Pomm takes care of Europeans with Alzheimer’s. Separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth during the final stages of her life, as a new patient arrives from Switzerland.
My Dads, My Moms And Me (Country: Canada; Year: 2019; Director: Julia Ivanova; Writer: Julia Ivanova)
The camera returns to three non-traditional families to consider their story since they first shared the tales of adoption, co-parenting and surrogacy.
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