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Something Familiar
Status: TIFF Chisinau - free access
Producer: Monica Lãzurean-Gorgan, Elena Martin
Production year: 2026
Length: 89 min.
Genre: Documentary
Age restrictions: AG
Country: Romania, United Kingdom
Original title: Something Familiar
Director: Rachel Taparjan
Screenplay: Rachel Taparjan
Composer: Hannah Peel, Quinta
Montage: Alice Powell
Distribution (actors): Rachel Taparjan
Synopsis:
While helping a woman search for her birth mother, Rachel is drawn deeper into her own family history. When Rachel launches an international search for her missing sisters, she uncovers a painful legacy of abuse and exploitation.
About director:
Dr Rachel Taparjan is a British-Romanian filmmaker and academic. Her debut feature documentary Something Familiar draws on her own adoption history and research into family trauma.