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‘Love, Chaos, Kin’: Indian American documentary breaks adoption stereotypes
Directed by Chithra Jeyaram, the film questions how to honor heritage and build family across race, culture, and difference.
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Pranavi Sharma - Wed, 30, Apr 2025
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Filmamker Chithra Jeyaram and a still from the Documentary. / Indiaspora
San Francisco will host the world premiere of ‘Love, Chaos, Kin’ on May.11 at the AMC Kabuki 1. The documentary by Chithra Jeyaram has been nearly a decade in the making. The film, screening as part of CAAMFest, the country's largest Asian American film festival, dives into the intimate, emotional, and often messy terrain of adoption, race, and identity in America.
Filmed over six years, ‘Love, Chaos, Kin’ follows an Indian American adoptive family, their Navajo-descent twins, and the children’s white birth mother. It’s a rare and layered portrayal that shatters neat narratives often associated with adoption, especially those that sideline questions of culture and birth heritage. The film poses an urgent question: how do we build families across racial and cultural lines without severing the roots that shape a child’s sense of self?
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