Another Child Documentary: Where to Watch in 2026 and How a Mother-Daughter Team Unravels Family Secrets
A mother-daughter duo races to shatter a dark generational curse in Another Child — here’s where to watch it now.
In the mood for a lean, genuinely unsettling doc you can knock out tonight? There’s a 60-minute film that plays like a psychological thriller and it ’s sitting on a bunch of free streamers right now.
The film
'Another Child' (2021) — originally titled 'Honeychild' — zeroes in on a combustible mother- daughter dynamic between Cynthia and Leanna Borsellino. The two are stuck on opposite sides of some big ideological divides, but the story digs deeper than arguments around the dinner table. What starts as a family portrait turns into a tense excavation of generational damage, religious extremism, and the kind of buried secrets that keep echoing down a bloodline. It’s a documentary, but it moves with thriller energy.
What to know at a glance
- Year and runtime: 2021, 60 minutes
- Original title: 'Honeychild'
- Who it follows: Cynthia and Leanna Borsellino, a mother and daughter trying to navigate clashing beliefs and long-standing family trauma
- Watch free in the US: Fawesome, Filmzie, FlixHouse, Kanopy, Tubi
- Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango at Home
- Festival hardware: Best Feature Documentary at the Venice Film Awards, the Florence Film Awards, and the Sherman Oaks Film Festival; plus Best Original Story at the Florence Film Awards
Why it’s worth your time
If you like your nonfiction to feel like a pressure-cooker, this one gets there fast without wasting your night. The subject matter is heavy — faith, control, trauma, survival — but the film keeps focus, letting the revelations land without showboating. It also did real damage on the indie festival circuit, which tells you it’s not just provocative, it’s well built. And again: it’s free in a bunch of places. Low risk, high anxiety — in a good way.