FAMILY PORTRAIT IN BLACK AND WHITE follows a passionate Supermom, Olga Nenya, during three turbulent years that see her brood of 17 foster children grow into rambunctious teenagers. Olga is a loving mother but she is no Mother Teresa. Raised by the Soviet regime, she believes in communal responsibility over individual freedom and runs the family with a Stalinist determination.

“When the kids grow up, at least they will have a mother to blame for all the failures that will happen in their lives”. In many ways, Olga’s words sum up the immense value of living with a Mother, ideal or not, biological or adoptive, versus being raised in the best orphanage where a child calls every caregiver “a mom” and might have twenty moms without knowing what a MOTHER is.

FATHERHOOD DREAMS

Every year more and more countries get involved in the political rhetoric of Gay Marriage. Should it be legal or not? Fatherhood Dreams joins the conversation, presenting three gay families who are also parents. Originally produced for the main TV Network in Canada, GlobalTV, the film intends to be an introduction to the subject. In a non-threatening way the documentary broaches the concepts of Surrogacy, Adoption and Co-parenting. An award winning filmmaker, Julia Ivanova, an outsider to the topic, opens these doors first time for many audience members and has received praises for the job well done.

LOVING A STRANGER

Love is Blind. That statement is so true for these four North American women who fall in love with younger men from Morocco, Pakistan and Guinea. What follows are years of longing, heartbreak and betrayal. Cultures clash leaving the women question themselves and the honesty of their partner's motives. As the drama of their lives unfolds, the reality sinks in that it may never work. In the end, one love affair survives the test of time while the other three perish in violence, courts and deception. "Loving a Stranger" is an ultimate test to the old saying - Does love conquer all?

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