Lion Dad

The last thing Eddie Mills (Larry Clarke) wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad (Brian Dennehy). But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy family, an overbearing step-mother (Leslie Ann Warren) , and his bear of a father. Once there, Eddie is confronted with a revelation that forces him to deal with the past he has always avoided.

Freddy is 30 and yearns to start a family but for him this ordinary desire comes with unique challenges - he is a gay transgender man. Deciding to carry his own baby took years of soul searching, but nothing could prepare him for the reality of pregnancy, as both a physical experience and one that challenges society's fundamental understanding of gender, parenthood and family. He quickly realises that what to him feels pragmatic, to others feels deeply confusing and confronting - this was not part of his plan.

One in ten men in the UK struggle with their mental health following the birth of a child. Yet, unlike mums, postnatal depression in dads often goes unacknowledged and undiagnosed, leaving fathers to struggle with difficult emotions that can impact the well-being of their entire family. This film follows an extraordinary campaign to get mental health support for dads. Young father Elliott Rae reveals how the traumatic birth of his daughter led him to set up an online community for fathers struggling with PTSD and postnatal depression.

Une incroyable histoire vraie : à 5 ans, Saroo se retrouve seul dans un train traversant l’Inde qui l’emmène malgré lui à des milliers de kilomètres de sa famille. Perdu, le petit garçon doit apprendre à survivre seul dans l’immense ville de Calcutta. Après des mois d’errance, il est recueilli dans un orphelinat et adopté par un couple d’Australiens.

Mim Shaikh is a radio broadcaster, actor and spoken word artist. He has loved to entertain since he was a child, but there's always been something, or someone, missing. When Mim was just six months old his mother left his father in the West Midlands, taking Mim with her to south London. Mim never saw or heard from his father again. He grew up surrounded by his mother's family, with barely a mention of his father. They have no idea where he is or whether he is alive or dead. Mim's mother has suffered from mental health problems all her life and it has been impossible for Mim to ask her about his father.

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Saroo, un bambino di cinque anni, è da solo e, spaventato e confuso, si ritrova dopo un lungo viaggio in treno nella caotica Calcutta, lontano un migliaio di miglia da casa. Cercando di sopravvivere alla vita di strada, finisce per essere adottato da una coppia di australiani che lo cresce con amore a Hobart. Non volendo ferire i sentimenti dei genitori adottivi, Saroo seppellisce il suo passato e il desiderio di ritrovare la madre e il fratello biologici. Un incontro casuale però riporterà a galla il suo sogno, facendolo imbarcare in una delle più grandi avventure della sua vita.

Natasha, Emily and Maya give poignant first-hand accounts.

An expectant mother befriends a Good Samaritan who saved her life, but is unaware that he is the father of her unborn baby and is "collecting" all of the children he sired as an anonymous sperm donor years before.

A profoundly intimate documentary filmed by Bafta-winning director Morgan Matthews over a period of more than ten years in the life of Morgan's father Geoff and his wonderfully eccentric partner Anna.