THE DADS

United States, 2026: 72 minutes: International Premiere

Globe Cinema

Nov. 21 2:30 PM Buy

Globe Cinema

Sat, Nov 21 2:30 PM Buy

As anti-trans legislation and hostility escalate in the United States, a group of dads, building a nascent movement to support their trans and gender expansive kids, are forced to make an impossible choice: stay and fight or flee the country.

Inspired by the Emmy Award-winning short documentary of the same name (Netflix, 2023), THE DADS chronicles a community of fathers of trans and nonbinary children as they are forced to choose family over country. Filmed over the course of a year spanning retreats in rural Maine and Minnesota, protests, family milestones, a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court decision, and the collapse of gender-affirming care for youth, THE DADS captures this national reckoning with remarkable intimacy through verité footage and interviews with the film’s main protagonists. This is fatherhood as an act of radical love and resistance.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
SXSW 2026

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Luchina Fisher is the Emmy-Award winning director of THE DADS (Netflix), which won the 2024 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Program and GLAAD's Special Recognition Award. Her feature directorial debut, MAMA GLORIA, was nominated for a 2022 GLAAD Media Award and broadcast on PBS. She has also directed several award-winning documentaries, sits on the board of New York Women in Film and Television, and teaches film at Yale and Fairfield University.

press for The Dads

"Both painfully timely and blessedly hopeful, a warning and a balm in one handy package."

- The Hollywood Reporter

"THE DADS is at once encouraging, in how it represents great and committed parenting, and also sad, in how it shows how fearful these families are becoming in the face of our current administration’s plans."

- AWFJ