Love Chaos Kin
An Indian immigrant couple adopts twins of Navajo descent and stays connected to the biological family. Love Chaos Kin is a clear-eyed look at what belonging to more than one world actually means.
Director Chithra Jeyaram scheduled to attend.
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When twins are adopted, what does it mean to raise them honestly? In Love Chaos Kin, the answer comes from an adoptive family who sought out and maintained real relationships with the twins' birth mother and birth father, deliberately exposing the children to both worlds. The twins are never shielded from the truth of their background, and watching them navigate that on their own terms gives the film a perspective you don't often come across. The family at the center is itself an unlikely one: an Indian immigrant couple raising white-presenting twins of Navajo descent, navigating questions of race, culture, and belonging that most families never have to sit with. Jeyaram weaves observational footage with animated sequences, capturing the openness and empathy behind the family's choices with a warmth that feels entirely earned. At a time when diversity and inclusion are increasingly under pressure, Love Chaos Kin shows what those values actually look like in practice, not as policy, but as a family's everyday choices.
—Shailaja Rao
- Director: Chithra Jeyaram
- Principal Cast: Lakshmi Iyer, Katherine Faye, Anjali Iyer, Cecilia Iyer, Sahana Iyer, Narayanan Iyer
- Country: USA
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 98 min.
- Producer: Chithra Jeyaram
- Cinematographers: Chithra Jeyaram
- Editors: Chithra Jeyaram
- Music: Vivek Maddala
- Website: Official Film Website
- Awards: Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival 2025 (AICEF Prize for Cross Cultural Filmmaking), Chicago South Asian Film Festival 2025 (Best Documentary Audience Award), Centre Film Festival 2025 (Made in PA Audience Award)
- Filmography: Foreign Puzzle (2019)
- Language: English, Tamil
- Has Subtitles: Yes
- International Sales: Real Talkies LLC