Documentary backdrop image for Landless Children (2026)

Documentary backdrop image for Landless Children (2026)

202697 minGdocumentary

7.0/ 10(1 rating)• TMDB

Landless Children

202697 minGdocumentary

7.0/ 10(1 rating)• TMDB

Two Chilean adoptees, Daniel and Juan, seek to understand their origins and find their mother while exploring their connections to a forgotten land.

Genres

Director

René Ballesteros

Synopsis

Two Chilean adoptees, Daniel and Juan, seek to understand their origins and find their mother while exploring their connections to a forgotten land.

People

René Ballesterosdirector

Synopsis

Daniel and Juan, two Chilean adoptees raised in Europe, seek to understand their origins and reconnect with their past. Daniel was declared dead at birth, while Juan is haunted by dreams of a wounded woman. Their quest leads them back to Chile, where they explore the complexities of identity, family, and belonging. "Landless Children" examines the emotional landscapes of adoption and the search for maternal connections in a country marked by historical trauma and personal loss.

Comments

What are people saying?

Play More Like This

I'm Not From Here (2016)

I'm Not From Here

2016•26m•★7.5TMDB

An elderly woman in a Chilean retirement home reflects on her youth in the Spanish Basque Country, addressing memory loss and her sense of identity.

I'm Not From Here

Amazing Quest: Stories from Chile | Somewhere on Earth: Chile (2021)

Amazing Quest: Stories from Chile | Somewhere on Earth: Chile

In Patagonia, Carlos Barria, Philippe Reuter, and Jorge Arratia share their lives and experiences in one of the most remote regions of Southern Chile.

Amazing Quest: Stories from Chile | Somewhere on Earth: Chile

Child Migrants Journey To The United States | Which Way Home (2022)

Child Migrants Journey To The United States | Which Way Home

Unaccompanied Central American children navigate dangerous conditions in Mexico as they attempt to reach the United States in search of a better life.

Child Migrants Journey To The United States | Which Way Home

Struggle To Survive: The Lives of Four Girls Over Ten Years (2022)

Struggle To Survive: The Lives of Four Girls Over Ten Years

One in every six children die before the age of five, a statistic illustrated by the death of Alaishri from malaria before her first birthday.

Struggle To Survive: The Lives of Four Girls Over Ten Years

Unloved and Forgotten - China's Children of Shame (2024)

Unloved and Forgotten - China's Children of Shame

Miao Miao and others face challenges as Hidden Homeless Kids in China's Sun Villages.

Unloved and Forgotten - China's Children of Shame

A Family's Uprooting Journey: One-Way Ticket to New Beginnings (Uplifting Documentary) (2024)

A Family's Uprooting Journey: One-Way Ticket to New Beginnings (Uplifting Documentary)

10-year-old Daniel navigates the emotional complexities of relocating from Devon, England to Wellington, New Zealand, balancing excitement with nostalgia.

A Family's Uprooting Journey: One-Way Ticket to New Beginnings (Uplifting Documentary)

Colombia: Disappearing Children (2022)

Colombia: Disappearing Children

Since 2015, an estimated 25,000 unaccompanied minors have crossed the border from Venezuela into Colombia, often using dangerous smuggling routes.

Colombia: Disappearing Children

Child Migrants Journey From Mexico to the United States (2026)

Child Migrants Journey From Mexico to the United States

Unaccompanied child migrants from Central America face exploitation and violence while navigating Mexico in search of safety and a better life in the United States.

Child Migrants Journey From Mexico to the United States

Chile after Pinochet: The search for the disappeared (2024)

Chile after Pinochet: The search for the disappeared

1,460 people are officially recognized as 'disappeared' from the Pinochet era, but many more remain unaccounted for, including Juan Eduardo Rojas-Vásquez's family.

Chile after Pinochet: The search for the disappeared

How adoptees from Bangladesh search for their past (2025)

How adoptees from Bangladesh search for their past

Bangladeshi adoptees Sander and Suma, living in the Netherlands, search for their birth families with the support of the Shapla Community amidst issues of trafficking and lost identities.

How adoptees from Bangladesh search for their past

Explore Landless Children

Browse more like this

I'm Not From Here (2016)

I'm Not From Here

2016•26m•★7.5TMDB

An elderly woman in a Chilean retirement home reflects on her youth in the Spanish Basque Country, addressing memory loss and her sense of identity.

I'm Not From Here

No digital watch option in your country

Child Migrants Journey To The United States | Which Way Home (2022)

Child Migrants Journey To The United States | Which Way Home

Unaccompanied Central American children navigate dangerous conditions in Mexico as they attempt to reach the United States in search of a better life.

Child Migrants Journey To The United States | Which Way Home

No digital watch option in your country

Child Migrants Journey From Mexico to the United States (2026)

Child Migrants Journey From Mexico to the United States

Unaccompanied child migrants from Central America face exploitation and violence while navigating Mexico in search of safety and a better life in the United States.

Child Migrants Journey From Mexico to the United States

No digital watch option in your country

The Lost Children (2024)

The Lost Children

2024•1h37m•★7.4TMDB

Four indigenous children become stranded in the Colombian Amazon after a plane crash, relying on ancestral wisdom to survive the dense jungle.

The Lost Children

Children of the Snow Land (2019)

Children of the Snow Land

2019•1h37m•★10.0TMDB

Children as young as four leave their families in the High Himalayas of Nepal for 12 years to pursue education in urban centers.

Children of the Snow Land

The Chilean Building (2010)

The Chilean Building

2010•1h36m•★7.0TMDB

Sixty children are cared for by 20 adults at a community center in Chile after their parents return to fight against the military dictatorship in the late 1970s.

The Chilean Building

Mein fremdes Land (2022)

Mein fremdes Land

2022•1h34m•★8.5TMDB

Manuel, adopted as an infant due to his mother's extreme poverty, travels from Germany to reconnect with his biological family in Potosí, Bolivia.

Mein fremdes Land

Santiago's Path: Disappearance and Death of Santiago Maldonado (2018)

Santiago's Path: Disappearance and Death of Santiago Maldonado

2018•1h12m•★8.0TMDB

His body was found 78 days after Santiago Maldonado disappeared during a protest by the Mapuche community in Patagonia, Argentina.

Santiago's Path: Disappearance and Death of Santiago Maldonado

Sri Landaise (2022)

Sri Landaise

2022•1h14m•★8.0TMDB

At 24 years old, the director, adopted at three weeks, seeks to reconnect with her biological family in Sri Lanka.

State Owned Children (2021)

State Owned Children

2021•53m•★8.0TMDB

Thousands of children were placed in cross-border adoptions in post-war Germany, many born during the French occupation from 1940 to 1944.

State Owned Children

Unfinished Diary (1982)

Unfinished Diary

1982•48m•★8.0TMDB

Marilú Mallet, a Chilean immigrant in Quebec, navigates family communication barriers while exploring themes of language and identity alongside exiles like Isabel Allende.

Unfinished Diary

Abandonados (2026)

Abandonados

2026•43m•★8.0TMDB

Forty years after being abandoned at a Barcelona train station, three siblings investigate their identity and past through testimonies and archival material.

Browse more by René Ballesteros

View all films →

The Burn (2010)

The Burn

2010

Dreams of the Castle (2018)

Dreams of the Castle

2018

Is this your film?

If you made this film or hold the rights to it, we'd like to talk. We can license it and pay you a share of what it earns.

License it with us →