Filmmaker Anne Koizumi explores the childhood shame she felt about her Japanese immigrant father, who worked as a janitor at her school, through stop-motion animation and archival footage. She focuses on the difficult father-daughter relationship questions ideas of shame around being othered as an immigrant in North America and how life-defining experiences can inhibit us from claiming and owning our identities. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.1/10 | |
Released: | April 24, 2020 | |
Genres: | Documentary Short | |
Countries: | Canada | |
Crew: | Anne Koizumi | |
allswright : It' s excellent. Even though it's another country and culture, the period is the one I gre...