In 1991, a grieving Korean family immigrate to the Canadian prairies to help cull the troubling population of feral dogs, but must confront their own personal trials and tribulations.
Cinematography
Endless white void shots that swallow characters whole.
Acting
Sein Jin's silent grief could freeze a room.
Direction
Yoo makes the prairie feel actively hostile, almost sentient.
Director
Jerome Yoo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Jerome Yoo based this on his own family's immigration to rural Alberta in the 90s; the dog culling was his father's actual job.
The film deliberately inverts the 'model minority' immigrant narrative—this family isn't succeeding, they're surviving badly on land that doesn't want them.
CA
