Twins Adopted To Different Parents Didn’t Know About Each Other Until Now

Anais and Samantha: Separated at Birth in Korea

It was February 2013 when Anais Bordier, living in London as a French fashion student, came across a YouTube video with the irrepressible Samantha Futerman. Samantha was an actress in Los Angeles, and Anais couldn’t help but notice that they looked exactly alike. Anais did a little digging and discovered that the girls were born on the same day in Busan, Korea and then put up for adoption.

Anais then reached out to Samantha through Facebook. At this point, Samantha, the actress, began keeping documentation of all their interactions, discussions and musing over the possibilities of their relationship. This is how their movie, Twinsters, came to be.

Their Movie: Twinsters

The story of reuniting long lost siblings isn’t so unusual, but what makes Twinsters unique is that the story is told ‘real time.’ Directed in part by Samantha Futerman, the story is told through YouTube videos, Snapchat, Facetime, Facebook and filmed meetings, so we follow Samantha and Anais journey to discovering each other. Samantha Futerman, born and raised in the United States, flies to England to meet Anais.

DNA testing confirms their suspicions: the girls are twin sisters. The girls struggle to cope with the geographical distance between them and wanting to be together more. Eventually, they take a trip to South Korea for a gathering of adoptees and film a reunion with the foster mothers who cared for the twins for a short time after they were born. They also film a sad search for their biological mother. Ultimately, the girls are thrilled to have found each other, and bond deeply.