Riceboy Sleeps

Riceboy Sleeps

Presented by Kingston Canadian Film Festival

Doors Open: 6:15PM
Show Starts: 7:00PM
All Ages

Featuring: Riceboy Sleeps

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Event type: All Ages

The opening night selection for this year’s KCFF is a special film by anyone’s standards. The second feature by Vancouver-based actor-turned-filmmaker Anthony Shim, this poignant drama is both acutely specific to the experience of a Korean immigrant family in the 90s Canadian suburbs, and profoundly universal as a heart-wrenching story of a mother and son whose close bond is threatened by great changes and challenges. Choi Seung-yoon is spellbinding as So-Young, a woman who must rebuild her life after leaving South Korea and arriving in Canada with her headstrong son Dong-hyun (played as a boy by Dohyun Noel Hwang and by Ethan Hwang as a teen). The push-and-pull dynamic that exists in any parent-child relationship is exacerbated by the unspoken pains of the characters’ past, along with outside factors like the racism that Dong-hyun weathers at school and the sexism that So-Young faces at work. Their tensions and sorrows are leavened by displays of resilience and moments of joy, all of which makes for a film of rare richness and power.

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Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts
390 King St W, Kingston, ON

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This event is part of the following series:

2023 Kingston Canadian Film Festival

March 2, 2023 - March 5, 2023

Riceboy Sleeps Presented by Kingston Canadian Film Festival

Riceboy Sleeps will be at Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts in Kingston, ON on Thursday, March 2, 2023.Doors Open at 6:15PM EST, and the Show Starts at 7:00PM EST. Riceboy Sleeps includes Riceboy Sleeps. Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts is located at 390 King St W, Kingston, ON.

Cutoff is Thursday, March 2, 2023 6:14 pm EST unless it sells out earlier.

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