An international documentary film about two twin sisters from china, who were separated and adopted into two different corners of the world. I cried, i laughed, my heart felt so broken at times and then so full at others. One of them to a little village in norway, surrounded. In 2003, two babies were found in a cardboard box in a chinese village, and adopted to two different corners of the world. Twin sisters wins gullruten national tv awards duration. Order on dvd everything about this documentary is too good to be true. The sisters plight is in a way a metaphor for the relationship between the dutch and german peoples. Twin sisters is a 20 documentary film directed by mona friis bertheussen and produced by moment film.
Mona friis bertheussen 20 in 2003, the infant chinese twin sisters mia and alexandra were found in a cardboard box. Mona friis bertheussens film, showing on monday night in the. Twin sisters won the prestigious audience award at idfa 20, which is considered the largest documentary film festival in the world. With alexandra hauglum, mia hansen, wenche hauglum, sigmund hauglum.
Twin sisters is a documentary, though, so theres no need to suspend disbelief. Winner of 11 film awards including the prestigious audience award at idfa, the worlds. Twin sisters adopted in china as infants by californian and norwegian parents grow up knowing they have a twin. Tvillingsostrene 20 alexandra hauglum and mia hansen at an event for. Twin sisters chinese siblings separated at birth independent. World premiere at idfa 20 the remarkable story of chinese twin sisters who were adopted in two completely different parts of the world but who are bound. Twin sisters 2002 film twin sisters 20 film twins of evil. Twin sisters from china stay in touch the new york times. Twin sisters went on to win 10 other awards and has been broadcast by more than thirty television channels reaching millions of people worldwide. The many global fans of our film twin sisters are constantly asking us for any kind of update on the twin girls featured in mona friis. Awardwinning documentary film about twin sisters separated at birth, reunited by fate. The film tells the remarkable story of their parallel journey, punctuated by only.
Watch twin sisters online vimeo on demand on vimeo. The film won the audience award at the 20 international documentary film festival amsterdam. In the film s latter half, with the allied liberation of the netherlands, lottes dutch family hoist the dutch tricolor and the ancient strains of the wilhelmus dutch national anthem sound in the background. The film tells the remarkable story of the twin sisters mia and alexandra through a parallel journey, until they meet again when they are 8 years old in norway. About the film twin sisters tells the moving true story of mia and alexandra, twin chinese infants found in a cardboard box and taken to an orphanage in 2003.
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