Approved for Adoption (Couleur de peau : Miel) 12 years old

This remarkable animated documentary traces the unconventional upbringing of the filmmaker Jung Henin, one of thousands of Korean children adopted by Western families after the end of the Korean War. It is the story of a boy stranded between two cultures. Animated vignettes – some humorous and some poetic – track Jung from the day he first meet his new blond siblings, through elementary school, and into his teenage years, when his emerging sense of identity begins to create fissures at home and ignite the latent biases of his adoptive parents. The filmmaker tells his story using his own animation intercut with snippets of super-8 family footage and archival film. The result is an animated memoir like no other: clear-eyed and unflinching, humorous, and above all, inspiring in the capacity of the human heart.

Credits

Approved for Adoption Cast

Name	Character
William Coryn He was 54, now 67 years old	as Jung
Christelle Cornil She was 36, now 47 years old	as La mère
Jean-Luc Couchard He was 44, now 55 years old	as Le père

Approved for Adoption Crew

Name	Department