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Approved for Adoption
Approved for Adoption

Approved for Adoption

7.3/10

1hr 10mins

Country:FR, CH

2012

AnimationFamilyDocumentary
Spoken Languages: Français

Overview:

This remarkable animated documentary traces the unconventional upbringing of the filmmaker Jung Henin, one of thousands of Korean children adopted by Western families after the end of the Korean War. It is the story of a boy stranded between two cultures. Animated vignettes – some humorous and some poetic – track Jung from the day he first meet his new blond siblings, through elementary school, and into his teenage years, when his emerging sense of identity begins to create fissures at home and ignite the latent biases of his adoptive parents. The filmmaker tells his story using his own animation intercut with snippets of super-8 family footage and archival film. The result is an animated memoir like no other: clear-eyed and unflinching, humorous, and above all, inspiring in the capacity of the human heart.

Budget

$0.00

Production companies

Belgacom, Artémis Productions, 2 Minutes

Genre

Animation, Family, Documentary

Runtime

1hr 10mins

Rating

7.3/10

Release Date

2012-06-06

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