There can be difficult things to hear in “For Our Children,” but after people watch the film about a collective of mothers who have found strength in sharing the pain of losing their sons to police brutality, director Débora Souza Silva has found the theaters it’s played in to become a place of healing.

“I remember someone described our screening to me as being on Sunday church, because when people really connect with the story, it’s really beautiful,” said Souza Silva. “I don’t get tired of sitting down and watching the film again and again, and I do it because I just love to hear people’s response in real time.”