CPH:DOX 2026 - Homesick / Hjemsøgt

‘Homesick’ follows director Taekyung Tanja Inwol Sørensen's story as an adoptee. Between Denmark's windswept west coast and the mountains of South Korea, the story of the Danish family unfolds. A story that hides domestic violence, divorce and suicide attempts behind the neat Jutland facade. At the same time, the film imagines the other lives that were destroyed or could have been in Korea. 

Through interviews, landscapes, photos and voice-overs, the director pieces together her experience as the only adoptee in a Danish family – and as someone who has been erased from Korea her entire life. The film intertwines personal memories and imagination with the political realities of a transnational adoption system that has long since lost its lustre.

‘Homesick’ is a harsh but also, in its own way, very beautiful story about a person who ends up in a family filled with pain, illness, violence and upheaval. How does a child survive when one mother after another disappears?