Daughters, which debuted on Netflix last week, is a striking film, a crafted exploration of how incarceration affects families, how children navigate ambiguous grief, and the cruelty embedded in the modern-day prison system.
These girls just needed a way to invite their fathers into their lives on their own terms, she says in one scene.
Across a tight 108 minutes, Daughters is painstakingly intimate, using closeups, still images of nature and spliced home videos to capture the litany of feelings around the celebratory dance and the years that follow.
As the girls and their mothers await the dance on the outside, fathers within the jail attend a 10-week preparatory course part group counseling, part bonding led by a life coach.
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