- UK + Ireland: tune in to watch the film along with us on Curzon Home Cinema
- Global audiences: find the film on other streaming sites at andrewsolomon.com
Click HERE to watch a Q&A with Andrew Solomon, film participant & author of “Far From the Tree”, Shantha Rau Barriga, Disability Rights Director, HRW & Graeme Reid, LGBT Rights Director, HRW
Film description: This life-affirming documentary follows the lives of Jack, Jason, Loini, Trevor, Leah and Joe who challenge society's narrow definition of “normal”. We meet them and their families and discuss how expectations placed on children, parents, and families have such power to turn “unconditional love” on its head by ways of extraordinary challenges. Fascinated with this idea, writer and film subject Andrew Solomon’s work on this issue stems from his own traumatic experience coming out as gay to his parents. Rejected and cast aside, he tried everything to regain his parents’ love and be “normal,” including conversion therapy. In a quest for understanding, this film encourages us to let go of our preconceptions – for example, about people with autism or dwarfism – and celebrate our loved ones for all that makes them uniquely themselves.
“It wasn’t until I tried to change who I was, I tried as hard as I possibly could, that I realised that who I was wasn’t changeable. … How do we decide what to cure and what to celebrate?” - Andrew Solomon, Far From The Tree
UK Advisory (12A)
