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Family Portrait in Black and White -- Film Description:
"The reality of growing up as a bi-racial child in Ukraine, a rare and truly visible minority, is not for the faint of heart. Interviews with African medical students and neo-nazis on the streets of Kiev paint a very dangerous picture. Olga is a foster mother to 16 bi-racial orphans. She calls them 'my chocolates' and raises them to be patriotic Ukrainians. Some residents of her small town in Eastern Ukraine, neighboring Russia, consider Olga a saint—but many believe she is just crazy. Inherited from the Soviet era, there is a stigma in the country against interracial relationships between Ukrainian girls and students from Africa, who come to Ukraine to study. The destiny of hundreds of bi-racial children is tragic—unwanted and doomed to grow up as orphans."
-- Interfilm Productions


Source:
"Family Portrait in Black and White" Interfilm Productions. http://www.familyportraitthefilm.com/. [official site]