The fact-based, moving story of a gay man who wants to adopt a baby with Down syndrome who has been abandoned in the hospital and the overwhelming amount of hardships he endures. He encounters a wall of rigid court rules and red tape as the system adheres to the outdated definition of who should be a parent.

Born For You tells the beautiful and touching true story of Luca a gay, single, Catholic man, who in 2017 adopted Alba, a Down’s syndrome child left in hospital shortly after being born. Thirty heterosexual families rejected her before the court decided to entrust her to him: with him, the legal foster care register for singles was inaugurated in Italy. Luca was in fact the first case in Italy of a single, gay person succeeding in adopting a daughter. But his was not a charitable gesture, or to fight a system set against him and others like him: he simply wanted a family.

Tickets: OUTshine LGBTQ+ Film Festival Fall Edition

October 18, 2024

Gateway Theatre

Director: Fabio Mollo

Runtime: 113 Minutes

Italy, 2023

In Italian with English subtitles

Narrative, Foreign, Gay, Drama

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