With is own word, raw words, laughing with pain. Mathilde talks about the death of her mother. The suffering. the necessity to do with this loss, or more exactly to do without her mother. Mathilde evokes this death with her father. She goes for the first time on the tomb of her mother.
They are skinned alive, teenagers severely damaged by life, not psychological, psychiatric and educational slip into mental illness, deviance, violence and even suicide. The family, the school or with usual medical unfortunately fail to help. To meet and understand the call for help of these young people have been put in place the houses of teens (MDA). Here, health is understood as a global physical, psychological, relational and educational. Rejane Varrod specifically chose to put her camera in the House of adolescents of Calvados, the manager, Dr.
Donor Unknown follows the story of JoEllen Marsh, 20, as she goes in search of the sperm donor father she only knows as Donor 150. What impact will meeting this stranger – Donor 150 - have on their children? What kinds of relationship can the children build with their biological father? How will letting Donor 150 into their lives affect their relationships as a family? And how will meeting his biological children change Jeffrey’s life?
Each week at the Robert Debré Hospital in Paris (a renowned paediatric hospital), the medical staff has to grapple with fate : based on the results of a number of medical exams (ultra sound, MRI, amniocentesis), they will have to decide whether a foetal handicap represents a "substantial risk" ("une particulière gravité") which justifies a voluntary termination of pregnancy. An article of French law places them in a position to decide over life and death.
For most parents, loving a child is stronger than death. However, life must go on after the loss of a child who has gone forever… At any moment, a family can be hit by what can be conceived as the worst of all possible dramas. This documentary proposes a vision of families who have lost children and how family members can rebuild after the disaster which constitutes the death of a child.
The approach to this sensitive subject is treated both through the testimony of parents and health care professionals. A subject voiced with emotion as they recall that painful period, but one which also bore the hope of a life enriched by the arrival of an exceptional being.
What is new in the way in which this document is conceived is that it gets away from the issue of medical or medical and social organisation. The sensitivity of the father of a disabled child, Olivier Raballand, and the editing of Rémy Viville highlight the concerns of health professionals and those of parents.
This film is intended to children (and their parents) who face a common ENT operation. The story is told from the arrival at the hospital to the departure. The film explains how doctors and nurses will take care of them. The aim of this film is, to explain simply what is going to happen to the children and to reduce their own and their parent's fear.
Four families with a handicapped child relate their difficult course. Parents discovered the handicap of their child after the birth by chance or afterwards. They try to analyze their suffering and their guilty feelings, still present, withmore or less intensity, even twenty years after.
Four families who have a disabled child tell their difficult stortes. The parents discovered their child's handicap either at birth, by chance or in later life. They attempt to analyse their suffering and feelings of guilt, still present, to varyng degrees of intensity, twenty years later. This film is targeted at both parents and professionals.
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