Beginnings (2014)

Baseado em fatos reais, o filme acompanha a história de um soldado turco que, durante a Guerra da Coréia, encontra o corpo quase congelado de uma menina abandonada. Apesar de não falarem a mesma língua, a convivência entre eles cria um forte laço, que durará toda uma vida.

Uma viúva decide adotar mais duas crianças e integrá-las a sua família. Juntos, eles enfrentam a rejeição e os preconceitos da sociedade por ela ser negra e as crianças serem brancas.

Dedicada e durona, Grace é uma formidável cuidadora das crianças em sua proteção – e apaixonada por seu namorado, Mason. Mas seu passado difícil – e o futuro surpreendente que de repente se apresenta – a jogam numa confusão imprevista, piorada com a chegada de uma nova admissão na unidade: uma adolescente talentosa mas problemática com quem Grace tem uma conexão carregada.

Astrid Magnussen é uma rapariga de 15 anos que vive na Califórnia. A sua mãe, Ingrid, é uma bela e espirituosa poeta. As vidas de ambas decorrem natural e satisfatoriamente até ao dia em que conhecem Barry Kolker, homem por quem Ingrid se apaixona perdidamente, mas que arruinará a sua vida por completo. Em vingança, Ingrid assassina Barry com um veneno extraído da sua flor preferida, o oleandro branco. Ingrid é condenada a prisão perpétua e consequentemente, a sua filha Astrid passa os anos de lar em lar. Nunca perdendo o contacto com a mãe, com que comunica por carta, Astrid viverá uma série de experiências de vida radicais – amores proibidos, drogas, religião...

Aos 8 anos de idade, Apple (Vanessa Hudgens) abandonou a casa de sua mãe (Rosario Dawson), uma prostituta viciada em drogas, e passou a morar em lares adotivos. Durante toda a adolescência, a garota guardou uma carta do pai rico (Brendan Fraser) que ela nunca conheceu. Apple parte em busca deste homem, mas quando anuncia que está grávida de um rapaz que conheceu nas ruas, seu pai biológico sugere que ela recorra ao aborto, e Apple foge novamente. Entre novos lares adotivos e a proteção de um padre, ela tenta reconstruir a sua vida.

Uma jovem mãe texana que perde a custódia do filho por falta de meios, procura ganhar dinheiro guiando mexicanos na travessia ilegal da fronteira com os Estados Unidos da América.

Após sair do orfanato ao completar 18 anos, um jovem encontra em uma amiga o amor impossível, enquanto comete pequenos delitos para sobreviver.

Tommy, 10 years old, is well known by Social Services. He is considered a danger to society. Gilles, his guardian at this halfway house, sees potential for redemption in this kid driven by violence.

Emily (Evanna Lynch) é uma menina que passou a viver em um lar adotivo após seu pai ter sido internado por esclerose lateral amiotrófica. Sentindo-se sufocada em casa e sofrendo bullying na escola, ela pede a ajuda do amigo Arden (George Webster) para resgatar o pai do hospital e, juntos, acabam embarcando em uma viagem reveladora.

A married teenager sets out to find his long-lost brother and sister years after all three had been placed with different families following their abandonment by their migrant worker parents. Luckily, he finds a compassionate social worker who, at first reluctantly, decides to help him cut through the bureaucratic red tape.

Cathy, 6, is taken by a social worker to a foster home in the countryside, where she slowly gets used to the strict rules imposed by her foster mother Réjeanne. Fortunately, her foster father, Reynald, is kind and gentle with the girl and patiently helps her break through her shell. Kayla, 12, is sent to a group home where she gets to know Morgane, a rebellious teenager who’s planning to run away. At about the same time, Manu is released from the system on the day she turns 18, but she finds it difficult to adjust to her solitary existence outside of the system. All four meet up at a reception honoring a foster family with whom they’ve all previously lived.

Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.

A 10-year-old girl navigates her way through the foster care system, after being removed from her home and separated from her younger brother.

Bonnie, a nine-year-old single child, is part of a family of three living in the Netherlands. They have a love of elephants, passed on by Bonnie's grandfather's grandfather who worked on a game reserve in Africa, and Bonnie feels that she instinctively does things like an elephant as a result. Her single mother, Lis, is bi-polar and at times spends days on end without even getting out of bed. Then there are other times when she will manically do wild acts, such as impromptu dancing in public. As a result, Bonnie's sturdy and stable grandmother must hold the family together by doing all the cooking, etc. After her grandmother is killed by a car, Bonnie becomes the most responsible family member and struggles with preparing meals and getting her reluctant mother to take her medication. She also must dodge Jorien, a social worker who is attempting to place her in a foster home.

Thelma, together with her husband Dado and teenage sons Gerald and Yuri, are a poor urban family hired by a local foster care facility to provide temporary home and care to abandoned babies pending the latter's formal adoption.

In her most recent film, Linda Kallistová Jablonská observes three girls growing up in a residential facility in Počátky, Czech Republic, over the course of ten years. She explores their dreams about liberty, the reality they must face as well as their ideas about their own future families. The sequel to her first longitudinal documentary about Adéla, Denisa and Pavla captures the rocky road to independence after leaving the facility, their reconciliation with the past, job search, new relationships, small joys and big disappointments. Not only does the director draw an empathic portrait of three young girls with no-one to rely on but themselves; she also explores the ways in which public institutions form young people’s attitudes to life.

On the verge of aging out of foster care, seventeen year old Mercedes Harper needs money and she needs it now. She manipulates Denver Thomas, a former high school classmate (who happens to have a massive crush on her) to help her plan and execute a bank robbery.

After being released from the foster care system, a young woman finds work in a flower shop, where she changes the lives of others while working to overcome her own troubled past with her foster mother. Based on the NY Times bestseller.

Short film about foster care promoted by TWINSET.