Queen of the Morning Calm (2019)

Directed by

Gloria Ui Young Kim

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

15

Rating

4.6 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A single mother in Toronto tries to raise her young daughter while the girl's father drifts in and out of their lives without warning. The story follows their quiet daily struggles and the tension between stability and uncertainty.

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What happens

Queen of the Morning Calm is a 2019 Canadian drama film written and directed by Gloria Ui Young Kim in her feature directorial debut. The film stars Tina Jung as Deborah, a single mother in Toronto who is struggling to raise her daughter Mona (Eponine Lee) while the girl's father Sarge (Jesse LaVercombe) moves in and out of their lives unpredictably and unreliably. The film was in development for several years. Kim won the Telefilm Canada New Voices Award at the Toronto Screenwriting Conference in 2013 for its screenplay, but struggled to secure sufficient funding to make the film until she won the $200,000 Feature Film Award from Women in the Director's Chair in 2016. The film finally went into production in November 2018. Queen of the Morning Calm premiered at the Whistler Film Festival on December 7, 2019, and was subsequently screened at the Canadian Film Festival on May 29, 2020, where Kim won the awards for William F. White Reel Canadian Indie and Best Director, while Lee won for Best Breakout Performance. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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