An intimate, tender story of family and assimilation in 1980s America, Minari follows a Korean-American family who move to a tiny farm in search of a better life and their own American dream.

David (a scene-stealing Alan Kim), a seven-year-old boy with a heart murmur, moves with his parents and sister from California to rural Arkansas. There, his father Jacob (Stephen Yeun) plans to start a farm specialising in Korean vegetables, while his mother Monica (Yeri Han) worries about his ambitions and the family finances. Family life is changed furthermore with the arrival of Monica’s sly, foul-mouthed, but loving mother Soonja (Yuh-Jung Youn, who picked up the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress) from South Korea, as she’s certainly not the grandmother the children had in mind…

By turns funny, moving, and deeply insightful, this is a rare look at the challenges of the Asian-American immigrant experience, the undeniable resilience of family, and what really makes a home.

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