Cinema Across Borders

A sudden loss draws two women together in the Chinese community of Queens, far from home and held in place by the work that sustains them.

After several failed attempts to find her birth family, an adoptee meets Banet, a group of Korean women who help adoptees search.

A family moves in next door, newly arrived from Korea, and the 14-year-old adoptee across the way starts learning where she came from.

A trip to Seoul, to see the mother who gave birth to her, brings long-held regrets to the surface for a queer Korean adoptee.

Two childhood friends, decades apart, are reunited in New York for one weekend, where they confront the choices that made their lives.

When her mother falls ill, a 13-year-old moves back to Taiwan and struggles to fit in, in the middle of the 2003 SARS epidemic.

Country music is the whole dream for a Filipino-American 17-year-old in Texas, until her mother is arrested by ICE and she is left to fend for herself.

Four adult adoptees return to the country of their birth, as the film traces the rise of Korea’s global adoption program.

After she burns through most of her trust fund, a party girl is cut off by her father and sent to work at the family toy business in China.

Caring for a Russian-Jewish grandmother in New York, an undocumented Filipina immigrant lives in fear of deportation while quietly paying a man for a green card marriage.

A grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis and her family decides not to tell her, staging a wedding instead so everyone can come and see her. Her granddaughter flies in from America, uneasy about the plan.

A man in Hong Kong, living with a disability, hires a domestic worker from the Philippines, and across the seasons the two begin to learn about each other.

Two young women raised on different continents find each other through social media and come to believe they are twin sisters, separated at birth and adopted out of South Korea.

Single and looking, a first-generation Indian-American lets his parents take an active hand in finding him a wife.

In the wake of 9/11, a man from Pakistan watches his American dream collapse in New York.

Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. Sent to the United States at eight years old in 1966, she was told to keep her real identity secret.

Abandoned by her father, a girl adjusts to life in an orphanage.

What happens after the reunion: a birth mother and the son she gave up meet again and try to build a relationship, with no language in common.

Based on real events: a Hindu boy and his father stray across the border from their village in Pakistan into India, at a moment when the two countries are close to war.

A young man born in New York tries to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, while his parents, who came from India, hold on to their traditional ways.

Forty years of film reels and tape recordings, sent home to India by a father who moved to Britain in 1965, become his daughter’s family history.

Sent from Korea to California in 1966 and raised by an American family, a filmmaker grew up with her birth family nearly erased from memory, until recurring dreams began.

A 15-year-old and her grandmother are the only ones left in Hong Kong after the rest of the family emigrates to Canada. A Japanese tourist turns up.

Back in Hong Kong after finishing university in London, a Chinese-Japanese student finds herself at odds with her mother.

Two reels survive, with no known intertitles, of the oldest Chinese-American film and one of the earliest American features directed by a woman.