Directed by Alejandro Yoshizawa
SpIFF Awards
- Best Feature – Silver SpIFFy (Jury)
- Best of the NW Feature – Silver SpIFFy (Jury)
Shown at SpIFF 2018
Trailer
Synopsis
Three siblings – whose mother was the last fluent hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaker from the Musqueam First Nation – travel to their father’s ancestral village in China for the first time, in order to better understand the challenges their parents faced and how it fractured their lives and relationships.
Credits
- Director
- Alejandro Yoshizawa
- Producer
- Alejandro Yoshizawa, Sarah Ling
- Other Credits
- Co-producer: Jordan Paterson
Festivals and Awards
- Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Vancouver, November 6, 2016, World Premiere, Best Canadian Feature, Canada
- Beijing International Film Festival, Beijing, China
- Asian American International Film Festival, New York, United States
- DisOrient Asian American Film Festival, Eugene, United States
- Bay Street Film Festival, Thunder Bay, People's Choice Award winner, Canada
- Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton, Canada
- Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival, Sacramento, Best Director (documentary) Award, Best Cinematography (Documentary) Award, United States
- Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival, Ottawa, Canada
- GZDOC (Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival)