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| Showtimes | Sun March 14 3:45 PM / KAB314C |
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The number of Korean children adopted into the U.S. (mostly by white families) peaked in the 1970s and early 1980s. As this generation comes of age, they are examining what it means to be minorities within their own families and cultural anomalies within their own race. These two talented, first-time filmmakers document their return to the motherland, allowing us to be privy to their sad realizations and indomitable strength. TRT: 77 mins
USA/Korea, 1998, 31 mins, video, color, English & Korean w/e.s.;
Director Tammy TOLLE (in person)
A Korean mother puts her twin daughters into foster care with the hope that she will one day be reunited with them. Instead, they are put up for adoption and end up in the United States, where they confront a family environment filled with abuse and neglect. An emotional reunion with their birth family exposes the chasm created by time and language; their only remaining connections are blood and memories.
USA/Korea, 1999, 43 mins, video, color, English & Korean w/e.s.;
Director Nathan ADOLFSON (in person)
Aside from the physical differences, it’s clear that little Nathan isn’t quite like the rest of the Adolfson clan. His father’s hobby is killing four-legged animals; his mother belittles him for going to film school. An outcast in his own family, he takes off for Korea in search of a connection to his murky past. Along the way, an amazing string of coincidences takes him from the frontlines of a student uprising at a Seoul university to a teary reunion with his birth family on Korean national television.
—Charles Kim
Presented with Association of Korean Adoptees/San Francisco and Korean Community Center of the East Bay