Irlanda, 1952. Philomena Lee (Judi Dench) é uma jovem que tem um filho recém-nascido quando é mandada para um convento. Sem poder levar a criança, ela o dá para adoção. A criança é adotada por um casal americano e some no mundo. Após sair do convento, Philomena começa uma busca pelo seu filho, junto com a ajuda de Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan), um jornalista de temperamento forte. Ao viajar para os Estados Unidos, eles descobrem informações incríveis sobre a vida do filho de Philomena e criam um intenso laço de afetividade entre os dois.
Holly é uma fotógrafa casada com Alex e quer muito adotar uma criança. Ele concorda com a ideia, mas a proximidade de receber o bebê faz com que tenha dúvidas se está preparado para a tarefa de ser pai. Wendy sempre sonhou com o brilho da gestação e, após dois anos de tentativas, enfim está grávida. Entretanto, ela e o marido Gary precisam lidar com a rivalidade do pai dele, Ramsey, que está esperando gêmeos com a jovem Skyler. Jules apresenta um reality show onde os participantes precisam emagrecer e acaba de ganhar a Dança das Celebridades ao lado do parceiro Evan.
Por impulso, Freddie, de 25 anos, regressa pela primeira vez à Coreia do Sul, onde nasceu. A jovem lança-se impetuosamente em busca das suas origens neste país que lhe é estranho, seguindo novos e inesperados rumos.
Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Samantha & Anaïs believe that they are twin sisters separated at birth.
Mina was adopted from Ethiopia by Judith and Lionel, a married couple who already were the parents of a biological daughter. Though she was abandoned by her mother as a baby, it didn't really seem to have much of an impact on her. But when Mina turns thirteen, an identity crisis takes a hold of the girl. She is caught between two worlds - and feels nowhere at home. Mina snaps and descends into a destructive downwards spiral. Jealous of her non-adopted sister, she starts acting out, pitting her father and mother against each other and thereby dividing the entire family. Judith and Lionel don't know what to do. Will their parental love and kindness be enough to heal Mina's wounds?
YouTube musician and Korean American adoptee Dan Matthews travels to South Korea to perform and reunite with his biological family, including a long lost twin he never knew he had.
Cassie Lane, an adopted Chinese American, debates taking a DNA test while remembering the first time she realizes she is adopted.
An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.
From 2000 to 2008, China was the leading country for U.S. international adoptions. There are now approximately 70,000 Chinese adoptees being raised in the United States. Ninety-five percent of them are girls. Each year, these girls face new questions regarding their adopted lives and surroundings. This is a film about Chinese adopted girls, their American adoptive families and the paradoxical losses and gains inherent in international adoption. The characters and events in this story will challenge our traditional notions of family, culture and race.
A movie about two women who are mothers to the same child, and a child who belongs to two different worlds.
In 2003, the infant Chinese twin sisters Mia and Alexandra were found in a cardboard box. They ended up in an orphanage and were put up for adoption, at which time the authorities apparently decided that it was a good idea to separate them, and to keep silent about the fact that they were twins. Twin Sisters tells their story from the perspective of both sets of adoptive parents: one from Sacramento, California, the other from a tiny village in picturesque Norway. Through a series of coincidences that they later attribute to fate, the parents meet each other during the adoption procedure in China and launch an investigation that reveals the little girls are sisters.
Kati Pohler was abandoned in a market in China when she was three days old. Her parents left a note saying they would meet her on a famous bridge 10 or 20 years later. When the time arrived, it became a huge story in China, but Kati was living in America and had no idea. This is how she finally met her biological family.
A Bolivian by birth, who grew up with adoptive parents in the Swabian town of Mössingen, is looking for his family in the mountains of Potosí. Out of poverty, his mother gave the little boy away when he was just a few months old. The search carries a story that goes far beyond personal fate. Because Manuel was born in a region known for the ruthless exploitation of silver. It's a film about identity, homeland and equal opportunities.
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.