What is family? What are home and belonging? Who gets to decide about how those concepts apply to us? And what makes a good and a bad family or home? Those are some of the questions you will find yourself thinking about and struggling with when you watch director Taekyung Tanja Inwol’s (A Colombian Family) second feature documentary, Homesick (Hjemsøgt).
Described as “a raw family chronicle” that travels between Western Denmark and South Korea, the film about the director’s family and story about being adopted from South Korea world premiered in the NORDIC:DOX competition of the 23rd edition of CPH:DOX, the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.
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“In Taekyung’s family in Denmark, everything was meant to look perfect on the surface, but behind the façade, there was domestic violence, breakups, divorce, suicide attempts, death, loneliness, and much more,” highlights a synopsis for the film. “When one’s origins
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