‘Something Familiar’ Is a Journey Into Family Bonds and Trauma That Usurps Narratives About Romanian Orphans (Exclusive CPH:DOX Trailer)

Rachel Taparjan's first feature, debuting at Copenhagen, sees the director and another woman returning to the orphanage where ...

‘Something Familiar’ Director on Her Very Personal Hybrid Doc About Overcoming Trauma and Giving Herself “the Gift of the Archetypal Mother”

Rachel Taparjan discusses her debut feature, premiering at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, trauma-informed filmmaking and why Western media's portrayal of Romanian orphans is a hidden "antagonist" of the doc.
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Filmmaker who rescued Romanian orphans is killed

ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) — A documentary filmmaker known for helping rescue children from squalid Romanian orphanages in the early 1990s was fatally shot following an apparent dispute over the trimming ...