Summary: David's comfortable world is turned upside down when his birthmother unexpectedly reaches out to him, longing to meet the eighteen-year-old son she's only held once. With the encouragement of his adoptive parents, David embarks on a journey of discovery that leads to a staggering truth about his past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LifemarkCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIFSummary: The compelling and unpredictable film from director Davy Chou (Diamond Island). Freddie has returned to South Korea for the first time since her adoption and move to France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country where she knows very little, including the language, to learn about where she was born.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RETSummary: The movie is about a pair of socially-challenged siblings who discover they are adopted half-brothers in their late father's videotaped will. Their journey in search of their true father takes them to the small, insular Danish island of Ork, where they stumble upon three additional half-brothers, each also sporting hereditary harelips and lunatic tendencies, living in a dilapidated mansion...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN MENSummary: Meet Mahmud Nasir, loving husband, doting father, and something of a relaxed Muslim. He may not be the most observant, but in his heart he is a true Muslim. After his mother's death, Mahmud finds his birth certificate, which reveals that he was adopted at birth and he's Jewish, with the real name of Solly Shimshillewitz!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INF1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INF
Summary: After a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer, Ema, a reggaeton dancer, sets out on an odyssey of personal liberation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMASummary: As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2021