Documentary by Jota Mun about a queer Korean adoptee and her birth mother, screened at Storyhouse as part of the Queer East Festival 2026.
Between Goodbyes screens at Storyhouse Cinema on Sunday 1 November at 3:30pm, as part of the Queer East Festival 2026. It's a documentary by Jota Mun, who is a Korean adoptee themselves, and it follows Mieke, a queer Korean adoptee raised in the Netherlands, and her birth mother Okgyun, who lives in South Korea.
The story goes back to 1982, when Okgyun was forced to give up her daughter amid overpopulation concerns, economic hardship and social pressure on women to have sons. Six years after mother and daughter were reunited, the film follows Mieke as she returns to Seoul with her wife to celebrate their marriage with Okgyun and her family, seeking to reconcile with their painful pasts. Along the way, it looks at the historical legacy of mass overseas adoption and asks what a family is.
It's shown as part of Queer East, a cross-disciplinary showcase of boundary-pushing queer cinema, live arts and moving-image work from East and Southeast Asia and its diaspora communities. The film is in Korean, English and Dutch with English subtitles.
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Tickets are £8.90 for members and £9.90 for non-members, with under-16s at £6.75 for members and £7.50 for non-members, and £5 for a Young Storyhouse Card. There are multibuy discounts too: 25% off for two films and 50% off for three or more. It starts at 3:30pm on Sunday 1 November at Storyhouse Cinema.
