The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival has returned for its 28th edition! The annual event held in Toronto, Canada celebrates contemporary Asian cinema from all over the world, and this year’s festival began on November 13 and is set to run until November 24. A notable film featured at this year’s festival is “The Land of Morning Calm,” which made its international premiere with a screening on November 14 (local time). In “The Land of Morning Calm,” young fisherman Yong Su ( Park Jong Hwan ) plans an insurance scam by staging his disappearance, hoping to provide a better life for his Vietnamese wife and his aging mother.
At the center of this scheme is his captain, Yeong Guk ( Yoon Joo Sang ), who reluctantly reports Yong Su missing. However, when Yong Su’s mother ( Yang Hee Kyung ) refuses to connect her son’s disappearance with his death, the white lie snowballs into something harder to chew. Created by Director Park Ri Woong of the critically-acclaimed 2022 film “ The Girl on a Bulldozer ,” “The Land of Morning Calm” is an examination of interracial marriages and insurance scams, but more so, a heartbreaking study of the different forms of families, sacrificial love, and the struggles in making a living.
Catch “The Land of Morning Calm” with a digital screening now available for purchase here . For all showtimes and digital screenings, visit reelasian.com .
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