Something Familiar
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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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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- Release date
- Mar 17, 2026
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
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- Language
- English, Romanian
- Country
- United Kingdom, Romania
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