Winner
Dallas Asian Film Festival
Audience Award, Best Documentary (2019)
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Geographies of Kinship
Directed by Deann Borshay Liem
2019•82 min
- Genre
- Documentary
- Topic
- Belonging
- Mood
- Lingering
- Featured in
- Cinema Across BordersActivist Cinema
Synopsis
In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and reconnect with their roots, mapping the geographies of kinship that bind them to a homeland they never knew.
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Footnote
- Social impact
Follows four Korean adoptees retracing their origins, part of a body of work that helped support political reforms easing pressure on single mothers in Korea's adoption system
Director
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