Children of alcoholic parents have been fighting for a precarious normality within their family since early childhood. They look after the addicted mother or father and try to stop them from drinking. They are always afraid that someone might find out and put them in a home. They feel guilty or become aggressive, cause problems at school or become addicted themselves - another single and often misunderstood cry for help in a social environment characterized by helplessness, looking away and silence.

A child who just loved to skate from the age of eight, Poppy Starr Olsen became the number one femal...

A year after Thadd and Shannon gave birth to their son, A Conversation Between Parents highlights a ...

Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing and reve...

The controversial bad-boy of comedy delivers a piercing look at his life, lifting the metaphorical s...

Documentary about the indie rock band Modest Mouse made around 1997, as they were recording their se...

Two unique perspectives on the city of Liverpool come from interviews with the director's parents.

What's it like to "make a family" when you're not part of the traditional hetero couple? Can two bes...

This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scrip...

A 2008 documentary and debut feature film of Bafta-Award nominated director Jamie Jay Johnson. It fo...

Children of the Arctic is a portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers growing up in Barrow - the nor...

The fascinating complexity of high school debate gives way to a portrait of the equally complex raci...

At Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, China, a Grade 3 class learns what democracy is when an electi...

Julia always said that her upbringing as a biological child in a foster family was a happy time. But...

[…] Though the highs and lows of human experience are all here, it's often the gimcrack set design a...

What happens when you travel to the birthplace of green slime? For an entire generation of classic N...

After four years away, Huiju returns home to South Korea. Exchanges with her loved ones are awkward ...

Jagoda and Zuzia giggle in the opening scenes in the way that only 11-year-old girls can. Together t...

Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face ...

A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing on n...

Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at...