Martin Sixmith (Steve Coogan) je bývalý zahraničný korešpondent BBC, ktorý prišiel o prácu. Náhodou sa mu do rúk dostane materiál, z ktorého by spracovať životnú reportáž. Jeho klientkou sa stáva staršia svojrázna írska dáma Philomena Lee. Otehotnela ako mladučká dievčina a porodila syna Anthonyho. Aby ho mohla vídavať aspoň hodinu denne, žila a pracovala v kláštore pre „padlé ženy“. Keď mal Anthony 3 roky, bol Philomene násilím odobraný, a poslaný na adopciu do Ameriky. Philomena strávila 50 rokov márnym hľadaním svojho dieťaťa. Philomena a Martin sa spoločne vydávajú na neobyčajný výlet. Philomena je úprimná, bezprostredná pani, ktorá berie ľudí takých, akí sú. Napriek životným strastiam si stále zachováva optimizmus a vieru. Naproti tomu je Martin svetaznalý vzdelaný muž, ktorý je zvyknutý na spoločnosť významných a bohatých ľudí. Strata milovanej novinárskej práce v politických sférach z neho urobila cynika.
Hviezda vo fitness Jules a celebrita tanečnej show Evan sú celí bez seba, že si zakladajú vlastnú rodinu. Avšak uponáhľaný životný štýl šoubiznisu bude musieť rázne ustúpiť nečakaným tehotenským starostiam. Spisovateľka a advokátka Wendy, zbožňujúca bábätká, si na vlastnej koži vyskúša, aké to je byť mamičkou bojujúcou s prudkými hormonálnymi zmenami. Jej manžel Gary robí, čo môže, aby nebol zahanbený svojím vysoko plodným otcom, ktorého mladučká žena Skyler čaká dvojičky. Fotografka Holly sa chystá precestovať svet, aby si adoptovala dieťa, no jej manžel Alex si touto myšlienkou nie je úplne istý a aby potlačil vzrastajúcu paniku, zúčastní sa terapie pre mladých ockov. Rosie a Marco, súperiaci prevádzkovatelia stánkov s občerstvením, sa po svojom nočnom romániku budú musieť vysporiadať s otázkou: čo robiť, ak prvé dieťa predbehne prvé rande? Týmto piatim párom prevráti naruby ich životy nastávajúce rodičovstvo, o ktorom doteraz len čítali a počúvali.
After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.
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.