Underplayed Gems

There Are No Words (2025)

There Are No Words poster
Directed by
Min Sook Lee
Genre
documentary film
Country
Canada
Rated
12
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A filmmaker investigates the events that led her mother to take her own life when the filmmaker was a child. It is a personal quest to understand a family tragedy.

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What happens

There Are No Words is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Min Sook Lee and released in 2025. The film centres on Lee's search for greater understanding of the circumstances that led her mother, Song Ji, to commit suicide when Lee was just 12 years old. The film premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention for the Best Canadian Film award. Iris Ng won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography in a Documentary at the 14th Canadian Screen Awards in 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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