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Network of Politicized Adoptees (NPA) Recommended Film List

NPA has worked to identify and catalog documentary and dramatic films produced in Korea and elsewhere that speak to the adoptee experience in ways that counterbalance prevailing mainstream assumptions. They represent a variety of alternative viewpoints and stories directly and indirectly tied to Korean adoptee narratives. The following directory includes films that tackle the issues head on, as well as many that approach them more obliquely but no less poignantly.

Korean Adoption Documentaries


Adopted
(2008) – directed by Barb Lee


We Can do Better (Companion DVD to Adopted) (2008) - directed by Barb Lee

First Person Plural (2008) – by Deann Borshay Liem

In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee (2010) - by Deann Borshay Liem

Geographies of Kinship (in production) - by Deann Borshay Liem

Voices of Adoption: Korean Adoptee Perspectives (POV)
(2000)

Resilience (2009) - by Tammy Chu

Searching for Go-Hyang (1998) – by Tammy Chu

AKA Dan (2014) - by Dan Matthews

Crossing Chasms (1998) – by Jennifer Arndt-Johns

Made in Korea: A One Way Ticket From Seoul To Amsterdam (2006) – by In Soo Radstake

Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America (2002) – by Phil Bertelson

Passing Through (2009) – by Nathan Adolfson

Approved for Adoption (2012) – by Jung Heinin

General Korean Documentaries with Content Relevant to Korean Adoption

Memory of Forgotten War (2013) – by Deann Borshay Liem

Children of the State – Press for Truth (2013)  

General Adoption Documentaries

Closure (2013) – by Bryan Tucker

A Girl Like Her (2012) – by Ann Fessler

Paper Orphans (2012) - by Marie Ange-Sylvain

The Triumvirate (2004) – by Jean Strauss

Holding Hands – by Jean Strauss

Adopted: For the Life of Me – by Jean Strauss

Daughter from Danang (2002) – by Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco

Girl, Adopted (2013) – by Melanie Judd

India: Calcutta Calling (2004) – by Sasha Khokha

Las Hijas (The Daughters) (2007) – by Maria Quiroga

Somewhere Between (2011) – by Linda Goldstein Knowlton

Struggle for Identity (2007) - by Deborah C. Hoard

Unlocking the Heart of Adoption (2002) – by Sheila Ganz

Dramatic Films

Philomena (2013) - by Stephen Frears

A Brand New Life (2009) (Korean film) - by Ounie Lecomte

Ode to My Father  (2014) (Korean film) - by Yoon Je-kyoon

Lady Vengeance  (2005) (Korean film) - by Park Chan-wook

Rabbit and Lizard (2009) (Korean film) - by Park Chan-wook



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