Browse films and projects in adoption across communities. Public previews and authorship are identified on individual records.
22 records · Collection totals may overlap.
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Undated entries appear last. Film release years and conference years are separate.
Ounie Lecomte
A child’s experience of an orphanage and overseas adoption is told through fiction informed by the director’s own history.
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Lucy Sheen
A Hong Kong adoptee filmmaker examines British East Asian identity and transracial adoption.
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Sonia Godding-Togobo
Judith Craig Morency returns to Haiti in search of original family. Adoptee testimony is central; the director is credited separately.
Jung and Laurent Boileau
Jung’s autobiographical animation follows a Korean child growing up in a Belgian family.
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Jota Mun
A queer Dutch Korean adoptee and her original family work through reunion over time. Adoptee filmmaker Jota Mun brings lived experience to this story of lasting reconnection.
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Regina Griffin
People born to German mothers and African American servicemen recount postwar separation, racism and adoption.
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Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco
A Vietnamese Amerasian adoptee and her original mother reunite across cultural and economic differences.
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Deann Borshay Liem
Liem revisits her Korean adoption, family histories and reunion.
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Sun Hee Engelstoft
A Korean-Danish adoptee filmmaker follows unmarried mothers facing decisions about parenting and relinquishment.
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Amanda Lipitz
Three Chinese American adoptees discover they are cousins and travel to China seeking their histories.
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Deann Borshay Liem
Adult Korean adoptees recover histories shaped by Korea’s international adoption system.
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Melanie Judd and Susan Motamed
An Ethiopian teenager’s move to the United States raises questions of race, belonging and family change.
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Dulcinea Harrison
An Ethiopian adoptee filmmaker traces her own journey from Addis Ababa to Colorado Springs.
Deann Borshay Liem
Identity substitution in adoption records leads Liem to search for the woman whose name she received.
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Jule Ritter
Andreas Nakic’s life and reunion connect adoption with transatlantic family history.
Deann Borshay Liem
Mixed-race Korean adoptees trace original families and transnational connections. Release remains unconfirmed.
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Tammy Chu Tolle
A Korean adoptee and his original mother navigate reunion and the ongoing work of becoming family.
Tammy Chu Tolle
The filmmaker and her twin return to Korea and reconnect with original family, language and memories.
Malene Choi
An adoptee filmmaker’s debut feature explores Korean adoptees returning to their country of birth.
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Samantha Futerman and Ryan Miyamoto
Twin sisters adopted separately to France and the United States discover one another.
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Writer / director / co-producer: Amandine Gay · Black French adoptee filmmaker
Five adult adoptees from Brazil, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, South Korea and Australia narrate the intimate politics of transnational adoption.
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Branwen Okpako
A detective searches Stasi records for her own family history.