K-Number

Directed by Jo Se-young (조세영)

2024•112 min
Topic
Justice

Synopsis

Mioka, a Korean-American adoptee, has attempted to find her birth family multiple times but failed. During her journey, she discovers ‘Banet,‘ a group of Korean women who help adoptees find and reunite with their birth families. Banet supports Mioka in finding her family based on her adoption documents, and as the journey goes on, they figure out that there is a chance that the documents were fabricated.

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Selected Awards

Winner

Busan International Film Festival

Documentary Audience Award (Wide Angle) (2024)

Winner

Seoul Independent Film Festival

Grand Prize (Feature Competition) (2024)

Winner

Seoul Independent Film Festival

Passionate Staff Award (2024)

Winner

Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX)

F:ACT Award (2025)

Footnote

  1. Social impact

    Investigates fraud and mismanagement in South Korea's international adoption system through the numbering system once used to track children sent abroad

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