During the pandemic, living under an extreme right-wing government, filmmakers Bel Bechara and Sandro Serpa receive the news that would change their lives: there was a baby to be adopted.
Adopted Montreal filmmaker Adrian Wills discovers, on camera and in real time, the startling truths of his complex beginnings in Newfoundland. Shocking details drive Wills to the core of his birth mother’s resilience, and ultimately his own. In this moving feature documentary that combines 16mm footage and contemporary images with deeply personal conversations, Wills’ voyage transforms from an urgent search for identity into a quest to give a quiet girl her voice.
Cassie Lane, an adopted Chinese American, debates taking a DNA test while remembering the first time she realizes she is adopted.
Zara lives an idyllic life with husband Max and their adopted daughter Rose in their historic Rhode Island home. But when school councilor Carly gets strangely close to her daughter and puts Zara on edge, she confesses she is Rose’s birth mum. With Rose in danger and Zara’s perfect life starting to crumble around her, will she find out the truth about Carly before it’s too late?
Nelly Don the Musical Movie is a true Kansas City story about Nelly Don, a trailblazer who ignited a fashion revolution in the early 1900s to become a global sensation. Yet on the coattails of her success, drama ensues from an abusive husband and affair with a US Senator to the fake adoption of her biological son and her mobster-linked abduction. History comes alive with music, propelling the sensational story of her meteoric rise to fame in the fashion industry.
Desperate for a child, a couple welcome a surrogate mother into their lives, only to discover she's a con artist who's out to steal their money.
프레디는 여행차 떠난 일본행 항공편이 태풍으로 변경되자 어린 시절 프랑스로 입양된 후 처음으로 한국 땅을 밟게 된다. 언어도, 문화도 매우 낯설지만 나름의 재미를 즐기는 그녀. 하지만 자신이 진정 느끼고 원하는 건 무엇인지, 스스로를 발견해가는 길은 순탄치 않고, 결국 만나게 된 그녀의 생부와도 서로 산더미 같은 감정의 골이 남아있다.
Actually, Tomas knows his parents. Born in Brazil in 1993 and adopted from there, he now lives with them in the Netherlands. Now he is faced with the question of whether he should look for his biological mother, or if there are reasons not to do so.
David's comfortable world is turned upside down when his birth mother Melissa unexpectedly reaches out, longing to meet the eighteen year old son she's only held once.
Ruben and Gio have been recently adopted by Evelyn and Memo. The four of them try to create a home where the past, the bad and good stories, and the dreams in common for the future blend all together.
Zsófi, a rebellious teenager, lives in a tiny flat with her little sister, Mesi, and her unstable mother, Bea. Zsófi discovers late that she is pregnant and decides to give up her baby through open adoption to an infertile couple. Bea cannot accept her daughter’s decision, but she does not realize that neither Zsófi, nor the circumstances, are suitable to welcome a newborn. Zsófi has always had to behave like a grown-up, working and making sensible decisions, instead of her mother and for her sister. She is still in high school and her only advantage is her table tennis career, for which she works assiduously. She plans the adoption thoroughly with the help of a social worker. Following the birth, she is given six weeks by law to change her mind and ask for her child back. She seems to be able to control her feelings ruthlessly and continue towards the goals she has set. At the same time, her maternal feelings intensify, doubts arise, and she slowly begins to question her decisions.
세탁소를 운영하지만 늘 빚에 시달리는 상현과 베이비 박스 시설에서 일하는 보육원 출신의 동수. 거센 비가 내리는 어느 날 밤, 그들은 베이비 박스에 놓인 한 아기를 몰래 데려간다. 하지만 이튿날, 생각지 못하게 엄마 소영이 아기 우성을 찾으러 돌아온다. 아기가 사라진 것을 안 소영이 경찰에 신고하려 하자 솔직하게 털어놓는 두 사람. 우성이를 잘 키울 적임자를 찾아 주기 위해서 그랬다는 변명이 기가 막히지만 소영은 우성이의 새 부모를 찾는 여정에 상현, 동수와 함께하기로 한다. 한편 이 모든 과정을 지켜본 형사 수진과 후배 이형사. 반 년째 이어온 수사를 마무리할 수 있는 결정적 증거를 포착하기 위해 이들의 뒤를 조용히 쫓는다.
Sally gave her son Sam up for adoption 20 years ago and when they reunite, they fall passionately in love with devastating consequences.
Two semi-studious students living in 'Korea-Town' are interrupted & intrigued by the actions of a girl in a nearby building, witnessed via CCTV, whilst each trying to come to terms with important subjects in their university projects [one Korean related: the Sewol ferry tragedy, and one British: the Grenfell tower incident], as well as their own life challenges in this claustrophobic tragicomedy of alienation, helping hands & secretive students. Is all really what it seems?
There are not many films that portray adoption and foster parenting in a positive light. CHOSEN does just that! This multi-plot film tells several incredible true stories of how one community makes a difference in the lives of foster kids.
하룻밤 사이에 모든 것을 잃은 한 십대의 이야기, 즉 편안한 집, 그녀의 가장 가까운 친구들, 그녀의 부모님의 무조건적인 사랑, 아니 오히려 그녀가 그녀의 부모라고 믿었던 사람들에 대한 이야기가 시작된다. 또래 친구들이 부르는 '아르미누타'(돌아온 소녀)에게 입양 가정부터 실제 가정까지 물질적, 도덕적 부에서 가난으로 가는 새롭고 매우 다른 삶이 시작된다.
A teenage girl finds a VHS with the word "Adoption" written on it. Her brother and her will try to find the truth and discover which one of them is adopted, even if the truth means realizing that the life they know isn't what they tought.
What does blood have to do with identity? Kendra Mylnechuk, an adult Native adoptee, born in 1980 at the cusp of the enactment of the Indian Child Welfare Act, is on a journey to reconnect with her birth family and discover her Lummi heritage.
An African American widow with two kids who has so much love to give, she often fosters children who need a home. She finds out that Peter and Rachel, the white siblings she fostered twice before, fled from their latest foster home.
도쿄에 사는 중산층 부부 사토코와 키요카즈는 입양으로 만난 아들 아사토와 함께 행복한 나날을 보내고 있다. 어느 날 걸려 온 행복하던 일상을 뒤흔드는 의문의 전화 한 통. “제 아이를 돌려주셨으면 해요.” 자신을 아사토의 친모 히카리라 주장하는 낯선 여성이 등장하는데…