Geographies of Kinship

Director: Deann Borshay Liem

Editor: Vivien Hillgrove

Supported by NEH, California Humanities, Berkeley Film Foundation

• World Premiere, CAAMFest

• Winner, Best Documentary - DisOrient

• Winner, Best Feature Documentary - Philadelphia Asian American

• Winner, Best Feature Documentary - Asian Film Festival of Dallas

• Winner, Audience Award - Asian Film Festival of Dallas

• Official Selection, Asian American Int'l (AAIFF)

• Broadcast on America ReFramed, WORLD Channel, 2021

In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and recover the personal histories that were erased when they were adopted. Raised in foreign families, each sets out on a journey to reconnect with their roots, mapping the geographies of kinship that bind them to a homeland they never knew. Along the way there are discoveries and dead ends, as well as mysteries that will never be unraveled.

www.mufilms.org/films/geographies-of-kinship-korean-adoption-story