Ruthful (2023)

When a Chinese-Canadian college student returns home to Toronto, she visits a Hong Kong cafe she frequented during her childhood. Through eating the food, she is suddenly able to relive suppressed memories of her deceased grandmother. Now she must confront their multifaceted relationship and her own identity to find her peace.

Released June 24, 2023 29 min None+

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Short

Keywords: tmdb.regret, tmdb.canada, tmdb.chinese-woman, tmdb.loss, tmdb.grief, tmdb.hong-kong, tmdb.chinese + 24 more, tmdb.east-asian-lead, tmdb.family, tmdb.guilt, tmdb.asian-woman, tmdb.immigrant-family, tmdb.acceptance, tmdb.immigrant-life, tmdb.food-culture, tmdb.self-acceptance, tmdb.asian-canadian, tmdb.cantonese, tmdb.broken-cantonese, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.family-relationships, imdb.immigrant-narrative, imdb.narrative, imdb.2020s, imdb.dramedy-drama, imdb.asian-canadian, imdb.grief, imdb.immigrant, imdb.coming-of-age-drama, imdb.memory, tmdb.toronto-canada