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Germany 2024 | 91 min. Director: Daniel Abma
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Co-Production Company

CAMINO FILMVERLEIH GmbH
Herdweg 27
70174 Stuttgart

Project / Host

German Documentaries

Categories

Documentary

The Family Approach

Synopsis

When parents can no longer fulfil their duty of care, the children’s world often falls apart. Nothing stays as it was. Suddenly it is no longer mum or dad who are in charge but the youth welfare system. Daniel Abma followed a youth housing group in a rural area over several years, showing professional educators who want to give five boys between the ages of seven and fourteen what they need most urgently, day by day: security, orientation, a home.
The documentary focus is not on the children but on those who take the parents’ place. They sometimes remind us of Don Quixote tilting at the windmills, for there is a diffusion of responsibility between school, youth welfare services, and absent mothers and fathers. Words fail when adults do not keep appointments, when those in charge capitulate in the face of racist bullying and propose some “time out” – for the bullied boy – in a psychiatric facility. It would be easy to denounce these mechanisms, but that is not the point Daniel Abma wants to make. His observation, both emphatic and reserved, looks questioningly into the gaps in the system – with those who are in danger of falling through and those who try to fill them with affection. He makes us suspect that the answer is not to close all the system’s gaps. It is people who are there for other people and take responsibility. [67 DOK Leipzig, Luc-Carolin Ziemann]

Cast & Crew

Festivals/awards

2024
ver.di prize for solidarity, humanity – 67 DOK Leipzig
fairness and film.land.sachsen prize – 67 DOK Leipzig
Gedanken-Aufschluss Prize – 67 DOK Leipzig
Filmz - Festival des deutschen Kinos
FilmFestival Cottbus

Co-Production Company

CAMINO FILMVERLEIH GmbH
Herdweg 27
70174 Stuttgart

Cast & Crew

Daniel Abma
 Britta Strampe (BANDENFILM), Laura Klippel (BANDENFILM)
 Johannes Praus
 Jana Dugnus (Jana Stullibrot)
 Alexandra Praet, Christoph Walter
 Alexandra Praet, Roman Pogorzelski
 Henning Fuchs

Categories

Documentary
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