To My Birthmother...

Loyal to My Image

Through one woman's experience as an adopted person and also as a mother who relinquished her child in 1971, this docume...

Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniver...

Dawnland

They were forced to assimilate into white society: children ripped away from their families, depriving them of their cul...

Moon Child

A movie about two women who are mothers to the same child, and a child who belongs to two different worlds.

My Flesh and Blood

My Flesh and Blood is a 2003 documentary film by Jonathan Karsh chronicling a year in the life of the Tom family. The To...

A Quiet Girl

Adopted Montreal filmmaker Adrian Wills discovers, on camera and in real time, the startling truths of his complex begin...

The Twinning Reaction

An astounding exposé that gives voice to the unwitting subjects of an infamous American scientific experiment: the 1960s...

Daughter of a Lost Bird

What does blood have to do with identity? Kendra Mylnechuk, an adult Native adoptee, born in 1980 at the cusp of the ena...

MUM Misunderstandings of Miscarriage

At age 31, after experiencing her second miscarriage, Tahyna MacManus was devastated, lost, angry and, despite those aro...

De Chinese keizerin

Despite the warm images in the family archive, photographer and filmmaker Jonnah misses an intimate bond with her (adopt...

Adopce: Konkurz na rodiče

Twinsters

Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Samantha & Anaïs beli...

D'une mère à l'autre

The Guys Next Door

An intimate portrait of a real Modern Family: Meet Erik and Sandro, a gay couple with daughters birthed by their friend...

Three Identical Strangers

New York, 1980. Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, separated at birth. The...

After the Dance

In this funny and moving documentary, acclaimed film-maker Daisy Asquith tells the very personal story of her mother's c...

Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story

Denese Joy Becker, a manicurist living in Iowa, discovers she is indeed Dominga Sic Ruiz, a survivor from a 1982 Guatema...

Faire famille

What's it like to "make a family" when you're not part of the traditional hetero couple? Can two best buddies living on...

Adoption International: A Global Scandal

In the collective imagination, international adoption evokes images of children being saved from a life of destitution i...

Wonder Boy

At age 25, Olivier Rousteing was named the creative director of the French luxury fashion house, Balmain. At the time, R...