There Are No Words

About this event

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, 2026 Asian Film Festival, Montréal 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. 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. TICKETS (+HST) General: $15 Members: $10, $8, FREE