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There Are No Words (dir. Min Sook Lee) x DOXA 2026.

Lee turns the focus on herself as she searches for memories of her mother, who took her own life when the filmmaker was only twelve. She confronts and speculates on the trauma of her mother's life and death as she revisits places from her childhood in Toronto. It's a confrontational piece that challenges our own memories, silence, grief, and shared loss within the context of family legacies. Like a memoir, Lee retraces history through her ninety-year-old father, a former South Korean intelligence officer, whose recollections are less than reliable.

Premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Docs program.

Screened at the 2026 DOXA Documentary Film Festival as part of the Spotlight: Family program.

The Sandbox (dir. Kenya-Jade Pinto) x DOXA 2026.

There's an underlying grim tone to the methodical documentary that explores the destructive power of military technology. It broadly treats mass surveillance within law enforcement and migration control as a cover for the true human cost, with everyone as cogs in the machine of power politics. Amidst the Arizona desert, drones surveil border control in an eye-opening look at the migration crisis through a layered dehumanization process. Pinto lays out harsh truths about the control of location and movement as a result of the current toxic political climate.

Screened at the 2026 Hot Docs Festival (Toronto).