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202690 minPGdocumentary

Something Familiar

202690 minPGdocumentary

A filmmaker's search for her missing sisters reveals a legacy of abuse and exploitation while exploring the potential of self-authorship to reshape her narrative.

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Rachel Taparjan

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A filmmaker's search for her missing sisters reveals a legacy of abuse and exploitation while exploring the potential of self-authorship to reshape her narrative.

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Rachel Taparjandirector

Rachel Taparjanwriter

Rachel Taparjancast

Mihaela Hildebrandcast

Alexandru Taparjancast

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While helping another woman search for her birth mother, a filmmaker reopens her own family story. In searching for her missing sisters, she unearths a legacy of abuse and exploitation, and begins to ask: can the creative power of self-authorship help her rewrite the scripts she has inherited?

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