A Place Between

Canada, 2007, 72 mins
Director: Curtis Kaltenbaugh
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Festivals

• Imaginative Toronto.

Description

Alberta Premiere - discussion with director Curtis Kaltenbaugh will follow the screening

A Place Between is a dramatic story of the reconciliation between biological and adoptive families. But much more than that, it is the journey of a cross-cultural adoptee who struggles to find balance between his families different ethnicities and traditions, and to discover how he fits into each world.

When filmmaker Curtis Kaltenbaugh, an Ojibway child from Manitoba, was 5 years old his life and that of his brother Ashok were forever changed by a brutal tragedy, the death of their younger brother. Both boys were removed from their birth mother's care in Winnipeg and adopted by a white, middle-class pastor's family in Pennsylvania.

Curtis and Ashok grew up in a world far removed from the harsh realities of their early years. But all was not well in Pennsylvania...they didn't fit in and had to seek out different ways of belonging. Curtis would eventually reconnect with his birth mother, Margaret, while Ashok took a path that wreaked havoc on their quiet, American family.

The film follows Curtis's struggle with his biological family's turbulent history and observes what happens when his biological and adoptive families finally meet.

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