Beginnings (2014)

Сулейман из турецкой бригады «Северная звезда», которая принимала участие в Корейской войне в составе американской дивизии войск ООН, спасает замерзающую корейскую девочку, называет ее Айлой и берет к себе в расположение.

An African American widow with two kids who has so much love to give, she often fosters children who need a home. She finds out that Peter and Rachel, the white siblings she fostered twice before, fled from their latest foster home.

Грейс — молодая сотрудница медицинского учреждения, руководящая отделением для трудных подростков. Ее жизнь меняется в наблюдениях за новой группой, ведь у нее тоже когда-то было тяжелое прошлое…

Беспечная и счастливая калифорнийская жизнь молодой девушки Астрид и ее матери Ингрид однажды поворачивается вспять с приходом мужчины, загадочного Барри Колкера. Страсть, разгоревшаяся между Ингрид и Барри, вскоре оставляет ее с разбитым сердцем и сломанной жизнью. Жажда мести воплощается в преступлении, которое совершает Ингрид...

Фильм расскажет про беременную девушку, убежавшую из дома от сварливой матери в поисках биологического отца. Последний бросил ее мать, которая была для него случайной связью из молодости. Сначала он отказывается поддержать девушку и требует от нее аборта, но потом в нем начинает просыпаться отец.

A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.

Fresh out of foster care at age 18, a young drifter turns to petty crime to survive, and discovers an impossible love in an unlikely friend.

Томми — 10 с половиной лет, и он очень хорошо знаком социальным службам. Его считают «угрозой обществу», поэтому помещают в специальный центр для несовершеннолетних. Жиль, сотрудник этого центра, пытается вытащить пацана из мира всепоглощающего насилия, в котором тот пребывает.

Packed off to a foster home after her father is insti­tu­tion­al­ized, a rebellious young Irish girl resolves to bust her dad out of the hospital where he's been confined.

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.

Фильм с точки зрения ребенка исследует эмоциональное путешествие детей, которых забирают из дома и отдают на воспитание в приемные семьи.

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.