links / references
PRODUCTIONBANDENFILM
info@bandenfilm.de
bandenfilm.de
www.FB.com/bandenfilm
DISTRIBUTION
CAMINO FILMVERLEIH GmbH
info@camino-film.com
www.camino-film.com
TRAILER
vimeo.com/1017938180
INTERVIEW German
youtu.be/cjd_txx-NfE
The Family Approach
The Family Approach
The Family Approach
The Family Approach
The Family Approach
The Family Approach
The Family Approach
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Co-Production Company
Herdweg 27
70174 Stuttgart
70174 Stuttgart
BANDENFILM
info@bandenfilm.de
bandenfilm.de
www.FB.com/bandenfilm
DISTRIBUTION
CAMINO FILMVERLEIH GmbH
info@camino-film.com
www.camino-film.com
TRAILER
vimeo.com/1017938180
INTERVIEW German
youtu.be/cjd_txx-NfE
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
- Director
- Producer
- Director of photography
- Editor (Cut)Jana Dugnus (Jana Stullibrot)
- Sound
- Sound Design
- Original Score
Festivals/awards
2024ver.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
Herdweg 27
70174 Stuttgart
70174 Stuttgart
Cast & Crew
Daniel AbmaBritta Strampe (BANDENFILM), Laura Klippel (BANDENFILM)
Johannes Praus
Jana Dugnus (Jana Stullibrot)
Alexandra Praet, Christoph Walter
Alexandra Praet, Roman Pogorzelski
Henning Fuchs
