One at-home DNA kit was supposed to answer a simple question. Instead it opened a case file. Our Father traces how a woman's routine genetic test led to a fertility-industry scandal spanning decades.
What is Our Father about?
The documentary follows Jacoba Ballard as an ordinary DNA test returns an unexpected list of half-siblings, setting off a search that eventually points back to a single fertility doctor, Donald Cline, and the clinic patients had trusted with their care. As more half-siblings come forward, the film moves between their individual accounts and the wider question of how a scheme involving donor sperm went undetected for so long. Journalists and legal voices, including Angela Ganote, help track how a private discovery turned into a public reckoning, while the people at the center of it, among them Kylene Gott, Julie Harmon, Jason Hyatt, Matt White, and Heather Woock, describe what it meant to learn their family history was not what they had been told.
About the cast
Our Father is built from interviews rather than dramatization, with Jacoba Ballard as the family member whose search opens the film and Donald Cline as the doctor at the center of it. Journalist Angela Ganote appears throughout as one of the voices who helped bring the story to wider attention, alongside several of the half-siblings whose testing led to the case, including Gott, Harmon, Hyatt, White, and Woock.
Context & significance
Directed by Lucie Jourdan, the film sits in a wave of true-crime documentaries built around consumer DNA testing, where a tool bought for curiosity ends up surfacing decades-old secrets. Rather than reconstruct events with actors, Our Father relies on the people who lived through the discovery, letting their own accounts carry the film's pacing from first test result to full scale of the case.
Watching Our Father on Ktime
Our Father streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, alongside the original English audio, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow every interview and document without missing detail. A free K-Time account with login is all it takes to start watching; browsing the site itself costs nothing.