Synopsis
Directors: Angela Patton, Natalie Rae
Producers: Lisa Mazzotta, Justin Benoliel, Mindy Goldberg, Sam Bisbee, Kathryn Everett, Laura Choi Raycroft, James Cunningham
US, 107 min, 2024
A profoundly emotional eight-year journey of incarcerated fathers and their daughters, this Sundance standout—winner of two Audience Awards and voted the festival’s best documentary by critics—Daughters is a miraculous wonder of humanity, compassion, and social conscience. Inside a jail in Washington, D.C., male inmates are invited to join a special rehabilitation program, which culminates with a Daddy Daughter Dance. (Meanwhile, we get to meet their daughters Aubrey, Santana, Raziah, and Ja’Ana, all different ages and very different relationships with their absent dads. Though Daughters builds to an incredible reunion, the film powerfully conveys their personal stories far beyond this single special night. “Rife with visually lyrical moments” (Variety) and “alternately shattering and hopeful … intimate and stirring” (Vanity Fair), this “enormously moving” (IndieWire) documentary will make you “want to follow these fathers and daughters deep into the future” (Los Angeles Times).
