PRESENTED BY COMMUNITY PARTNER DALLAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST

SHOWTIME: Friday July 25th at 8 PM

SYNOPSIS: In a snow-swept Winnipeg, school teacher Sumi (Leere Park) is hospitalized after a fall. On hearing the news, her anxious mother, Sara (Kim Ho-jung, Revivre), flies over from Seoul to be with her comatose daughter — and once Sara sets herself up in the young woman's apartment, she discovers she doesn't really know Sumi at all. Sara despairs about her daughter's single status, so she immediately starts catfishing the pleasant Min (Jonathan Kim) to be Sumi's boyfriend — once she wakes up, of course — and also gets unwittingly entangled with Min's estranged father, Sam (Won-Jae Lee), who runs a Korean restaurant in the city. As Sam and the widowed Sara connect over their mutual melancholies, a chance meeting with Sumi's co-worker Amaya (Amara Pedroso Saquel, Cha Cha Real Smooth) leads Sara to learn more about the life from which her daughter has chosen to exclude her. In a departure from his previous films, filmmaker Johnny Ma (Old Stone) embarks in a bold new direction, using suburban Winnipeg as the stage for a unique mash-up of genres - a stylized, whimsical narrative of crossed wires, secret lives, and conflicting agendas.

DIRECTOR: Johnny Ma | LANGUAGE: English/Korean

YEAR: 2024 | RUNNING TIME: 100 Minutes | COLOR

COUNTRY: Canada/Chile | GENRE: Comedy/Drama