Below is a list of documentaries / films about intercountry / transracial adoptees listed by Country of Origin.
Brazil
The Fifth Point of the Compass (Markus Martiner raised in Northern Italy, German language with English subtitles)
Cambodia
Belonging (Li-Da Kruger, adopted to the UK)
Prue Leith: Journey with my Daughter (Part 2 of Li-Da’s journey)
China
Dumpling Stories (Dutch intercountry adoptees share in Dutch, with English subtitles)
Found (3 American Chinese adoptees)
Meet me on the Bridge (Kati Pohler, American Chinese adoptee)
One Child Nation (Amazon Prime)
Ricki’s Promise (American Chinese adoptee shares)
Somewhere Between (4 teenage Chinese adoptees raised in America)
The Day I gave up my Daughter (sent to America)
The (un)lucky ones and Liminal Space (Sophie Rizzo’s short films)
Your Daughter (by Annie Swenson, sent to America)
Costa Rica
Imaginary Mothers (Jacqueline Arias)
Ethiopia
Girl In Return: an adopted teenagers journey back to Ethiopia (story of Tigist Anteneh / Amy Steen; Danish with English subtitles)
What No-one Saw (theatre show, by Betty van Brunschot, adopted to the Netherlands with her twin)
The Walk (Meseret Cohen, older age adoption to Australia)
Greece
Mijn Naam was Kostas / My name was Kostas (2017) see the short here
Guatemala
Mi Nombre es Alex / My name is Alex (coming soon!) see the short here and news coverage here
Haiti
Franciso Desir (French)
Hong Kong
Abandoned, Adopted Here (Lucy Sheen, documentary about Hong Kong adoptees adopted to the UK)
I Know this Face (Lucy Sheen, 4min short film about our Mothers)
India
Calcutta Is My Mother (Reshma McClintock, adopted to America)
Lion (film about Saroo Brierley, adopted to Australia, adapted from his book)
You Follow: A Search for One’s Past (Nisha Grayson, adopted to America)
Indonesia
Child of Time (in Dutch, about Tim adopted to the Netherlands) ***NEW***
Iran
Finding Farideh (biographical journey of Eline, adopted to the Netherlands on her return to Iran to search for bio family)
Paraguay
Juan (French with subtitles in English)
Romania
Izidor Ruckel ***NEW***
Samoa
The Lost Children (covers the illegal adoptions from Samoa to the USA)
South Korea
Blue Bayou (fictional film about the deportation of a Korean-American intercountry adoptee, based on the lives of some intercountry adoptees of varying origins who have been deported)
Between Two Mothers (performance show by Kyung Wilputte)
Crossing Chasms (Jennifer Arndt-Johns)
First Person Plural (Deann Borshay Liem, adopted to America)
Found in Korea (Nam Holtz, adopted to America)
Forget Me Not (Sun Hee Engelstoft, about the birth mothers of Sth Korea)
Geographies of Kinship (Deann Borshay Liem)
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee (Deann Borshay Liem)
Made in Korea: A one way ticket Seoul-Amsterdam?
Resilence (by Tammy Chu, documentary about Sth Korean adoptee who reunites with his bio mother and their struggle to become family again)
Searching for Go Hyang (Tammy Chu)
Seeing adoption through adoptee’s eyes
SidexSide (Glenn Morey interviews of 100 Korean adoptees and orphans who aged out)
Susan Brinkui arirang (Swedish)
Twinsters (twins Anais Bordier & Samantha Futerman, adopted to France & America)
Sri Lanka
Confronting the painful secrets of international adoption: Sri Lanka to Norway (Priyangika Samanthie)
Taiwan
Transracial
A Story of One’s Own: an intimate and political portrait of transnational adoption in France (Amandine Gay, French)
Being a TransRacial Adoptee (TRA) (Lucy Sheen)
Closure: A Documentary about Adoption (Angela Tucker, African American transracial adoptee)
Lisa & Isell: a story about adoption and the Ghost Kingdom (Lisa Marie Simmons, Angela Tucker)
Ouvrir la Voix (Amandine Gray Moroccan-French transracial adoptee, French)
Struggle for Identity: Issues in Transracial Adoption
Vietnam
Selection of Youtube Videos and Documentaries
Airmail Orphan (Viktoria Cowley adopted to the UK via Operation Babylift)
Daughter of Danang (Heidi Bub adopted to the USA)
So Close, So Far Away (Catherine Turner adopted to Australia)
Fragile Handle with Care multimedia biography by Barton C Williams (adopted to Australia as part of Operation Babylift)
Other Short Films made by intercountry adoptees
Two Adoptees, Generations Apart, Discuss their Adoption Stories (Lucy Sheen, short 8min video exploring domestic vs intercountry adoption)