Director: Chithra Jeyaram
Country: United States
Language: Tamil |English
Year: 2025
Run time: 97 mins
A Transracial Adoptive Family Redefines Identity and Belonging
An unexpected pregnancy leads an Indian immigrant mother to help her adopted twin daughters reconnect with their struggling White birth mother and estranged Native American father, forcing her to confront class divides and challenging her daughters’ sense of identity and belonging. Spanning 12 years, Love Chaos Kin is an intimate, patient, and humorous look at a transracial adoptive family redefining identity and belonging.
Director:
Chithra Jeyram is a physical therapist turned filmmaker. Her films reveal the extraordinary in the everyday, focusing on the wisdom, resilience, and love of biological and chosen families. In her films, she handles every phase of production: directing, producing, filming, and editing. Her debut feature documentary, Foreign Puzzle (2019), contrasts motherhood with the brutality of cancer and the resilience of dance. As the lead producer of the Oscar-qualified short documentary Amma’s Pride (2024), she spearheads an economically sustainable distribution and outreach campaign championing unwavering parental support for trans people and marriage equality.. Chithra is an adjunct faculty member at NYU. She calls Chennai and New York City home.
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