Love Chaos Kin [In-Person]

Directed By Chithra Jeyaram

USA, India | Documentary | 98 min

This screening will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A.

LOVE CHAOS KIN is an unflinching, intimate documentary that follows the journey of white-presenting, Navajo-descent twins and their South Asian adoptive parents. Over 12 years, the film captures the family’s complex reckoning with identity, race, and belonging as the twins reconnect with their struggling white birth mother and eventually their estranged Navajo birth father. It’s a story that challenges traditional adoption narratives, embracing discomfort, contradictions, and hard-won moments of love.

Tickets

In-Person
    • Date and Time

      Friday, August 08 2025

      6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

    • Venue

      Regal Union Square - Auditorium 14

      850 Broadway
      New York, NY 10003

    Film Details

    1. English, Tamil

    2. English

    3. 2025

    4. 98 minutes

    5. Coming-of-Age, Family

    6. Documentary

    7. USA, India

      1. Chithra Jeyaram


      Chithra is a physical therapist turned filmmaker who identifies as Tamil. Her films reveal the extraordinary in the everyday, honoring the unique wisdom, resilience, and love that define both biological and chosen families. She also regularly contributes her directing, producing, and editing expertise to other creators’ work. Chithra is an adjunct faculty member at NYU. She is an alumna of prestigious programs, including Visions du Réel’s RoughCut Lab, the Chicken & (Egg)celerator Lab, and others. She calls Chennai and New York City home and is writing her first screenplay, THE LONGEST SUMMER.

      1. Chithra Jeyaram

      1. Chithra Jeyaram

      1. Anjali Iyer

        Ceclia Iyer

        Lakshmi Iyer

        Katherine Faye

        Narayanan Iyer

        Sahana Iyer

      1. Executive Producer: Nico Opper and Gretchen Sisson

        Co-Producer: Bhavana Goparaju

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