Rachel Taparjan is a British Romanian filmmaker and academic in North East England, working as a senior lecturer in social work at Teesside University. In her film work, she has directed documentary shorts, but on Tuesday, March 17, she will world premiere her debut feature in the main competition of the 23rd edition of Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, CPH:DOX.
Something Familiar follows the director as she helps a woman, Mihaela, search for her birth mother in Romania by traveling to the orphanage where they were both adopted. On the journey, she gets drawn into her own family’s history and trauma and uncovers a painful legacy that hovers like a dark cloud over the women in the family.
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Something Familiar intersperses the journey to Romania with scenes of the filmmaker enlisting, or casting, actresses to sit in for her mother, whom she never really
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