There Are No Words (2025)

Directed by

Min Sook Lee

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

12

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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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