Blue Bayou

Blue Bayou (2021) is a drama from Justin Chon you can watch online on iFILM. Antonio grew up in the Louisiana bayou, inks tattoos at a local shop, and works hard for his wife Kathy and stepdaughter Jessie. For all his life he's been an American on paper — until a run-in with the police uncovers that the boy adopted from Korea was never properly naturalized.

Now a man who doesn't speak a word of Korean faces removal to a country he can't remember. Chon both directs and plays Antonio, with Alicia Vikander as Kathy, pregnant with their first child together. The film leans on faces rather than courtroom turns: on Antonio learning to be a father to a girl who already calls him dad, while the state argues over whether he gets to stay one.

It premiered at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section and aims straight at a real gap in the law — the thousands of international adoptees who were never granted citizenship. Quiet, aching cinema for anyone who likes drama that never raises its voice. Stream Blue Bayou (2021) online on iFILM.