A Documentary By Katrine Riis Kjær
Girl In Return
Directed by
Katrine Riis Kjær Run time: 79 min. Public Performance Rights Starting at $299
Organizations & institutions please contact info@passionriver.com today for a quote Genres: Documentary, Family Studies
Short Synopsis:
A global story about Amy, who decides to reclaim her lost identity and fight against the adoption system. |
Add Girl In Return To Your Collection!
|
Long Synopsis:
What happens when an adopted teenage girl decides to change her destiny by taking charge over her fight against the system? The film follows Amy as she decides to go up against the Danish and Ethiopian authorities, trying to repeal and terminate her adoption, as well as desperately tries to restore her lost relations by reclaiming her identity. Over the course of three years, we follow her fight to obtain her deepest wish: recreating the family bond, which was destroyed from one day to the other, when she was adopted at the age of nine.
What happens when an adopted teenage girl decides to change her destiny by taking charge over her fight against the system? The film follows Amy as she decides to go up against the Danish and Ethiopian authorities, trying to repeal and terminate her adoption, as well as desperately tries to restore her lost relations by reclaiming her identity. Over the course of three years, we follow her fight to obtain her deepest wish: recreating the family bond, which was destroyed from one day to the other, when she was adopted at the age of nine.