{"id":151406,"date":"2025-09-08T12:54:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=151406"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:28:58","slug":"im-prinzip-familie","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/film-video-en\/im-prinzip-familie-151406\/","title":{"rendered":"The Family Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following the second film screening there will be a public discussion with director Daniel Abma at 4:30 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n

Almost like family\u2014but always only for a while: between parental love, bureaucracy, and the youth welfare office, three caregivers give their all to create a home for children.
\nA film about the superpower it takes to raise a child\u2014and about family in all its forms. We are showing this film as part of our themed days on ‘Care or Chaos?’ because both coexist in such a moving way in this sensitive and emotionally gripping documentary.<\/p>\n

In a house by the shore of an idyllic lake, surrounded by dense forests, three caregivers work in shifts in a residential group home. The children call them Mr. Wagner, Mrs. Wagner, and Mr. Gerecke. Their daily routine includes cooking, laundry, shopping, and driving the children to school and after-school activities in a minivan\u2014just as much as listening, comforting, cuddling on the couch, movie nights, and reading bedtime stories.
\nThey do not see themselves as substitute parents, and yet they try to show what a sense of family can feel like.<\/p>\n

All five children living in the group home share one main wish: to return to their families one day. The caregivers work tirelessly to help make that happen\u2014coordinating with guardians, biological parents, and the youth welfare office, documenting, organizing, setting goals together, and making agreements. But more often than not, those agreements are broken\u2014leaving the caregivers disheartened.
\nIt feels like fighting windmills\u2014within the limits of an overburdened system.<\/p>\n

Where once there was a village, today there is a complex child welfare apparatus. Since the pandemic, the profession has officially been considered systemically relevant\u2014yet the dedicated and often emotionally demanding work of these professionals remains largely invisible.<\/p>\n

The Family Approach<\/em>\u00a0offers a year-long, intimate look into the world of child and youth welfare, focusing on the people in the background\u2014those who work every day to give children what they need most: a sense of security and someone who is truly on their side.<\/p>\n

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