“All parents deal with children who are not what they imagine,” “My parents really didn’t want to have a gay son,” reflects NY Times bestselling author and world-renowned psychologist Andrew Solomon. “I wanted to see how other families managed. But I don’t wanna know just about families of gay people. I wanted to look as widely as I could.”

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Solomon’s book “Far From The Tree,” the award-winning completion of a decade-long research project which included hundreds of interviews with families, has made its way to the big screen.

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Family isn’t always what you thought it might be. Sometimes, parents welcome children into the world who bring with them challenges that bring a new context to the relationship between fathers and mothers, and their sons or daughters. That idea is explored in the upcoming documentary “Far From The Tree,” which will be making its world premiere at DOC NYC.

Directed by Rachel Dretzin, and based on Andrew Solomon‘s book “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity,” the documentary explores the unique family ties that are formed when children bring a entirely new experience into the world of their parents.

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