Winner, Best Cinematography in a Feature Length Documentary, 2026 Canadian Screen Awards
Winner, DOC Institute Best Documentary Award, 2025 Reel Asian International Film Festival
Winner, Best Director & Winner, Best Music, Montreal International Asian Film Festival
Winner, Best Editing, Canadian Society of Cinema Editors
Honourable Mention, Best Canadian Feature, Toronto International Film Festival
Min Sook Lee’s mother died by suicide. Using her camera, Lee explores long-held silences, unstable memories and unforgettable truths, attempting to understand what happened. There Are No Words examines how Cold War militarism on the Korean Peninsula enters the home, as filmmaker Min Sook Lee turns her camera toward her father—a former intelligence officer—and the silences surrounding her mother’s death.
In English and Korean, with English subtitles.
Join director Min Sook Lee for a special post-screening Q&A.
Moderated by Hannah Sung.
Min Sook Lee is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, artist, and professor whose work explores migration, labour, memory, and the afterlives of militarism through intimate and politically engaged cinema. Her most recent film, There Are No Words, premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival where it was recognized with an honourable mention for Best Canadian Feature.
Hannah Sung is a 20+ year Canadian media veteran and co-founder of Media Girlfriends, an award-winning production company led by journalists of color prioritizing diversity and inclusion. Creator of the acclaimed newsletter and podcast At The End Of The Day, her career spans roles at MuchMusic, The Globe and Mail, and CBC.
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