The filmmaker achieves acute self-awareness, not of the weaknesses and difficulties of fatherless African American families, but rather the astonishing steel-willed strengths, sacrifices and courage of the extraordinary women presiding over them.

The predominant question for Williams is, can strong women raise confident and emotionally stable male children without a man around? So in a sense, In Search Of Our Fathers is a celebration of courage, and a truly feminist story.

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