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The Dads

  • NOT RATED
  • 2026
  • 1 HR, 12 min
  • AUG 30, 2026
A scene from The Dads. Four men in "protect trans human rights" t-shirts and lanyards stand with their arms around each other. People take photos in the background.
The Dads movie poster. 12 men, facing away from the camera with their arms around each other, stand in a row on a dock below dark storm clouds.
Details
NOT RATED
Released 2026, United States
Documentary
1 hour, 12 minutes
English
Starring

No starring credits.

Director

Luchina Fisher

Inspired by the Emmy-Award winning short documentary of the same name (Netflix, 2023), The Dads chronicles fathers of trans and nonbinary children as they are forced to choose between country and family when a new right-wing administration and conservative Supreme Court take hold in the United States. 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 verite footage and interviews with the film’s main protagonists, as documented by Emmy-Award winning director and producer Luchina Fisher and executive producer Dwyane Wade. This is fatherhood as an act of radical love and resistance. Followed by a Talk Back.

Tickets: $10 General Admission
Festival Passes available at The Ross Box Office.
Part of OutNebraska’s 2026 PRAIRIE PRIDE FILM FESTIVAL.

Film Stills

A scene from The Dads. A middle-aged white man looks skyward with the sun shining through the trees behind him.
A scene from The Dads. A protestor in an N-95 mask holds a picket sign that says, "Trans youth are the future."
A scene from The Dads. A black man with a mohawk stands at a microphone with his fist in the air in front of a large pink and red heart made of flowers. The podium bears a sign that says "Gender Liberation Movement."
A scene from The Dads. Four men in "protect trans human rights" t-shirts and lanyards stand with their arms around each other. People take photos in the background.
Additional Credits
Luchina Fisher Director

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