It is more difficult than most of us know to pull up roots and move to another country. The costs involved aren’t simply monetary. You give up community, culture, and your entire network of friends and family, but you do it in the spirit of finding a better life for yourself and your children. Mongrels, Jerome Yoo’s debut feature, tells the story of one such family that came to rural Canada in the 1990s.
Sonny (Jae-Hyun Kim) and his children, Hajoon (Da-Nu Nam) and Hana (Sein Jin), are each struggling not only with their new place in the world, but with grief. The recent death of the children’s mother hangs over them like a fog that keeps them from truly seeing one another.
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VIFF 2024: Mongrels | That Shelf
