Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his father, who's expecting twins with his young trophy wife; a photographer's husband isn't sure about his wife's adoption plans; a one-time hook-up results in a surprise pregnancy for rival food-truck owners.
出生於南韓的Freddie,自少便被領養家庭帶到法國生活。25歲那年原本要去東京旅行,卻因遇上颱風而轉遊首爾,繼而開展了一段尋根之旅。在法國成長的她,與親生父母有着全然不同的文化,使這趟突如其來的旅程引發出更深層的身份思考,也將她的人生引領至始料未及的方向。
改編自真人真事,《千里伴我尋》講述一位愛爾蘭老婦尋找少女時期在修道院被迫放棄兒子的故事。70多歲的菲露梅娜當年珠胎暗結遭家人摒棄修道院內,就在她的兒子安東尼3歲時,兒子被送往一個美國家庭收養,而菲露梅娜自此跟兒子失去聯絡,默念50年後,菲露梅娜在一個機緣巧合下,遇上失意政途的馬田,曾擔任前英國廣播公司(BBC)駐俄羅斯的記者的馬田,希望藉著菲露梅娜的故事再建事業高峰,更願意陪同菲露梅娜前往美國尋親…… 一個吃盡苦頭、率直踏實而信仰堅定的老婦;一個多言善辯、憤世嫉俗而沒有宗教信仰的中年漢,兩個南轅北轍性格的人在這次旅程中舌劍唇槍,站在不同的信仰立場,卻譜出一段真摯動人的友情。
Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Samantha & Anaïs believe that they are twin sisters separated at birth.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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 movie about two women who are mothers to the same child, and a child who belongs to two different worlds.
Documentary covering the current state of both the theoretical and practical development of the various scientific basic principles that served, as per Gene Roddenberry's dictum, as a believable basis at the time for The Original Series. Several real-world scientists are interviewed, not a few of them unabashedly admitting they went into their chosen field of profession because of Star Trek: The Original Series.
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.