Love Chaos Kin
2025 • 1h 38m • Family
Availability
In-person
Available until Nov 30, 2027
Available Worldwide
Speakers Available
Subtitles
English
Closed Captions
English
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About the film
An Indian immigrant mother helps her adopted twin daughters reconnect with their White birth mother and estranged Native American father, exposing raw class divides while transforming their understanding of identity and belonging.
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Executive Producer
Gretchen Sisson, Nico Opper
Crew
Chithra Jeyaram, Vivek Maddala, Emilia Toledo, +13 more
Awards & recognition
London Breeze Film Festival
2026 GALA OPENING FILM and Honorable Mention for Best Feature Documentary,
2026 POPCORN LIST
Love Chaos Kin is one of the 13 recommended documentaries
South Asian Film Festival Montreal
2026 WINNER Jury Award for Best Feature Documentary,
BareBones Film Festival
2026 WINNER The Shironbutterfly Award For FAMILY LEGACY PRESERVATION
Asian Movie Pulse
2025 15 Best Asian Documentaries of 2025
Middlebury New Filmmaker Festival
2025 WINNER AICEF Prize for Cross-Cultural Filmmaking
Chicago South Asian Film Festival
2025 WINNER Audience Award Best Feature Documentary Film
Centre Film Festival
2025 WINNER Audience Award, Best of PA
CAAMFest
2025 CENTERPIECE WORLD PREMIERE
What people are saying
“Warm, Clear-Eyed, and Quietly Radical"”
“Nuanced, intimate, and extremely honest”
Li Lai
“Beyond its extraordinary story, the perspectives Jeyaram presents are grounded, timely, and consistently engaging."”
“A poignant documentary about a mother's love, identity, and belonging - courageous and uplifting”
Cheryl Murfin
“A moving testament to the human spirit.”
Christopher Llewellyn Reed,
“As the family matriarch, Lakshmi is the star of Love Chaos Kin. She is full of wisdom about raising children, teaching them for today, and preparing them for the future. Documentarian Jeyaram refuses to paint Lakshmi as a hero to her family. Lakshmi’s actions in front of the camera already do that. In the end, Love Chaos Kin is a loving and heartfelt portrait of a truly unique family.”
“When Indian American filmmaker Chithra Jeyaram began making Love Chaos Kin, she was drawn to a family whose story raised questions about adoption, identity and belonging. But after eight years of filming, she came to see it as something larger – a look at what happens when a child grows up with more than one history, culture and family.”
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