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‘Daughters’ Review: The Bittersweet Bonds Between Fathers And Daughters Separated By Prison – Sundance Film Festival
Daughters is Natalie Rae and Angela Patton’s odyssey documenting Patton’s program that empowers girls of incarcerated Men yields insight through the subjects themselves – carefree tweens enjo…
Their reflections on maintaining hope with imperfect parental bonds defy assumptions around what families touched by long-term sentences or flawed rehabilitation systems need most. Without first acknowledging the basic humanity in prisoners, budgeting for programs focused on ownership and accountability for harmful behaviors, the system punishes instead of promoting individual change. By bookending buoyant bonding and peak life moments with unfiltered peeks into the girls’ formative struggles, Rae and Patton underscore how even periodic bursts of bliss hold radical power for reshaping worldviews.
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