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Your children come back to you / Women Make Movies ; a film by Sharon Larkin ; written, produced & directed by Sharon Larkin.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Cultural assimilation.
- African Americans.
- Mother and child.
- Dreams.
- Genre:
- Short films.
- Fiction films.
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (31 min.)) : sound, black and white
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : Women Make Movies, [1979]
- Summary:
- YOUR CHILDREN COME BACK TO YOU is a contemporary allegory about values and assimilation. The film literalizes the meaning of a "mother country" by means of the story of a young girl, Tovi, torn between two surrogate mothers: one comfortably bourgeois, the other nationalist.
- Participant:
- Angela Burnett, Patricia Bentley King, Simi Nelson.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Charles Burnett ; editing, Charles Burnett, Sharon Larkin ; music, Sabu Zawadi.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed January 16, 2026).
- Publisher Number:
- wm-yourch Docuseek2
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