As the battle royale over same-sex marriage now continues in the U.S., the issue of queer households raising children is getting more airtime. It’s worthwhile to rewind to 2000, when doc filmmaker Meema Spadola got a cross-section of children from rural, urban and suburban parts of America to talk openly and frankly about living in homes led by gay couples. In Our House, the portraits are tender and sweet, with Spadola sensibly letting the children tell their own stories, warts and all.

Some kids were initially in hetero households, but then one parent came out and, post-divorce, the children then found themselves with a queer parent and step-parent. These children offer particularly intriguing testimony, as they acknowledge the shift in their realities, and their knowledge that they are living in a household that many view as that of an outsider.

Especially moving is the story of one Mormon family in which the children come to accept their father’s new gay life. One child recounts that clergy told her to forgive her father; she wonders aloud what she was supposed to be forgiving him for. It’s one of those brilliant moments, where an innocent child free of any prejudice, renders a truthful judgment. The DVD has some intriguing extras, in which we catch up with many of the original subjects, and Spadola discusses her own experience growing up with gay parents. She made the doc, she explains, so that other children of queers would feel less alone.

Fans of French filmmaker Jacques Tati will want to check out the DVD release of his ’71 comedy, Trafic. In this entry Tati played his famous character Mr. Hulot once more, in a contemporary spoof of our culture’s infatuation with the automobile. This was not the most critically acclaimed of the Hulot films, but Tatiphiles will get a kick out of it nonetheless. It’s a sweet and typically strange comedy, and more timely than ever, given ongoing auto congestion.