Your Mum and Dad: A Devastating Truth
Episode 11 · 2022-05-10
- Documentary
Episode overview
In this documentary, Dutch film director Klaartje Quirijns originally set out to document therapy. She was interested in the sessions of a friend, Michael Moskowitz, who was unravelling a lifetime of family trauma inherited from the legacies of World War II. In these rarely filmed sessions, led by esteemed American psychotherapist Kirkland Vaughans, Klaartje begins to understand that all lived experience is shaped through the lives of our parents. In the ultimate display of vulnerability, Klaartje then decides to turn the camera on herself, beginning a journey to unravel her own family secrets. She traces the lineage of her story across three generations – her mother, herself and now her two daughters. Meanwhile, Vaughans continues to guide viewers through the complexities of the mind, showing how easy it is to become colonised by the behaviour of our parents.
72 minutes
Season 26 episodes
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2. Misha and the Wolves2022-02-02
3. President2022-02-09
4. Try Harder!2022-02-16
5. Tango with Putin2022-03-02
6. Writing with Fire2022-03-09
7. The Distant Barking of Dogs2022-03-23
8. The Earth Is Blue as an Orange2022-03-30
9. The Truffle Hunters2022-04-06
10. Navalny2022-04-25
11. Your Mum and Dad: A Devastating Truth2022-05-10
12. Into My Name2022-06-21
13. Citizen Ashe2022-06-28
14. On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World)2022-07-05
15. Gorbachev. Heaven2022-08-31
16. One Day in Ukraine2022-09-20
17. And Still I Sing2022-09-27
18. Midwives2022-10-04
19. Beneath the Surface2022-10-11
20. The Fire Within2022-10-18
21. A House Made of Splinters2022-11-08
22. A Bunch of Amateurs2022-12-13
