BENİM ÇOCUĞUM

What happens when your child comes out? My Child is a feature documentary about parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans individuals in Turkey, intimately recounting their personal experiences. In the documentary, which takes the viewer to five homes in Istanbul, families of LGBT individuals talk about their own parenting experiences, their children's periods of growing up and coming out, the difficult paths they went through in coping with this process, how they shared this situation with their own families, and the processes in which they relearned what it takes to be a parent. Their experiences share common themes of denial, trauma, helplessness, fear, shame, acceptance and rebirth. They talk about how they had nothing to prepare them for this experience. Neither any of the parenting manuals, nor what was passed down to them from their elders, nor the education they received in schools addressed what it might be like to be the parent of an LGBT child.


TUR, 2013, 82 min | Regie Can Candan
Moderation Sinem Deniz


Film still: BENİM ÇOCUĞUM
 

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