WINNER OF 2021 festival jury award: devon bolton memorial award for best alberta short film

A Filipino couple in Calgary, Alberta perseveres through a long-distance relationship redolent of the many years they spent apart in the past. Before, international borders separated them. Now, a virus. While Roderick, a Cargill meat plant worker, recovers in the hospital from a COVID-induced stroke, his wife, Norie, summons the strength to support her family.

Filmmaker Kiana Rawji begins by investigating the personal tragedies that the pandemic has caused local families, but ends up exposing the many ways in which corporations exploit immigrant workers.

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