Two very intimate documentaries that show their makers on a personal quest for their own biological fathers: a Yemeni pilot and an anonymous sperm donor. The films strongly tackle the notion of new families in our modern world, families that are taking on different shapes and provoking new dilemmas. Shot on a small format over a long period of time, they come over as strong narrative with a lot of suspense and an unknown outcome. But to what extent is it fact or fiction? And what are the dangers and advantages of the small format when allowing so much intimacy?
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The directors, who are also partners, take a journey in pursuit of Sami's father, who abandoned his Danish family when Sami was very young. Before this ambitious… -
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'An anonymous donor, half a century ago in Britain, regularly masturbated into a cup and made a gift of his sperm to women he'd never met. One of them was my…