A grieving teen becomes their mother in 21 minutes that'll wreck you.
Following the tragedy of their mother’s passing, class clown Aidan Lee is forced to navigate a world without her in it. Unable to identify with their traditional Chinese father and goofy high school friends, Aidan dresses up in their mother’s drag in hopes of reconnecting.
Acting
Kingston Chan carries entire arcs in silence.
Costume
Mother's drag as emotional armor—devastating.
Direction
Rachel Kwan packs a feature's weight into minutes.
Director
Rachel Kwan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Drag here isn't camp or comedy—it's diasporic grief made visible, a specifically Chinese-Canadian queer strategy of mourning.
Director Rachel Kwan drew from Toronto's underground Asian drag scene, where performers often channel ancestral figures.
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