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Bobby

Julie Bille, 2009

24-year-old Bobby tries to save a peer, a young man's life. The dying tells Bobby that he was adopted as a child and has never seen his biological mother. Bobby seeks out the man's mother, Gudrun, and pretends to be her son.

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Blandt tusind ansigter

Poul Martinsen, 1990

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Vem? II 3:8 – Vems bebis?

Jessica Laurén, 2019

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Papyni krosivky

Olha Zhurba, 2020

13-year-old Sasha lives in a boarding school for children deprived of parental care. He is one of the luckiest – a family have finally agreed to adopt him. Today he will move to America forever - but there’s something that won’t let him go.

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Bror

Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, 2020

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The Return

Malene Choi, 2018

Two Danish-Korean adoptees return for the first time to the country they were once born in. Confronted with the spirit of their motherland and the personal stories of fellow adoptees they meet in the city of Seoul, Karoline and Thomas are hurled into an emotionally disorienting journey that forces both of them to question and face their own destiny and identity. Operating in a hybrid field between fiction and documentary, the film is based partly on the director’s own experiences, partly on stories by other adoptees.

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Hae-Jin

Lars Movin, 2006

Liselotte Hae-Jin Birkmose was born in Korea in 1969. When she was ten months old she was adopted by a family living in Denmark, just north of Copenhagen, where she grew up. In 1997 Liselotte started to search for information about her Korean family, and in 1999 she met her birth mother for the first time in Seoul.

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Min største gave

Anne Hjort, 2001

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Mercy Mercy - Adoptionens pris

Katrine W. Kjær, 2012

What happens when adoption turns into an industry with the aim to alleviate the western world's childlessness, forgetting all about helping the children and families in the developing countries? The film is a global story about the catastrophic consequences of a choice made with the best intention. We follow an adoption from both sides of the globe, from the biological parents' last days with their children, through the adoption process and during the first four years of the adoptive parents' new life with the children in the West.

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Hjemsøgt

Taekyung Tanja In Wol Sørensen, 2026

HOMESICK follows the director’s story, as an adoptee. Set between Denmark’s windswept west coast and the mountains of South Korea, it traces the story of the Danish family, that hides domestic violence, divorce, and a suicide attempt behind it’s facade. It imagines the other lives that were erased or could have been in Korea.

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Forglem mig ej

Sun Hee Engelstoft, 2019

At the Aeshuwon institution on the South Korean island of Jeju, young pregnant and unmarried women come to seek refuge to hide their pregnancies. Here, the women stay until they have given birth, having to make a crucial choice of whether to keep their child or give it up for adoption, as society does not accept unmarried mothers. Typically, the disgrace of the family, the reluctance of the boyfriend and the disdain of the South Korean society towards the women’s behaviour have a big impact on their final decision.

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Politikens filmjournal 044

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