Approved for Adoption (2012)

ALL 06/06/2012 (fr) Animation, Family, Documentary 70 Min
  • Release
    06/06/2012
  • Production
    Belgacom, Artémis Productions, 2 Minutes
  • Rotten tomato
    73%
  • Original title
    Couleur de peau : Miel
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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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.

  1. Story

  2. Editor

  3. Producer



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Approved for Adoption (2012) 70 Min

ALL 06/06/2012 (fr)
Animation, Family, Documentary
  • Release 06/06/2012
  • Production
    Belgacom, Artémis Productions, 2 Minutes
  • Original title Couleur de peau : Miel
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Jung, Laurent Boileau

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer