Fumikomi is a short film produced by Prima Materia Pictures, currently in its financing and pre-production stage.
Logline:
While packing up their belongings before the next tornado hits, two Asian American sisters find a journal from their late mother that they can't translate, confronting a generational loss of language.
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With a Chicago climate crisis as the backdrop, an interpersonal drama unfolds: the generational loss of language as a casualty of displacement. Told in almost real time, Nikkei sisters Fumiko and Hana return to their home to pack for the shelter before another tornado hits, but discover a writing from their late mother that triggers a remembrance of a far-off place, tied to them through lineage.
Logline:
While packing up their belongings before the next tornado hits, two Asian American sisters find a journal from their late mother that they can't translate, confronting a generational loss of language.
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With a Chicago climate crisis as the backdrop, an interpersonal drama unfolds: the generational loss of language as a casualty of displacement. Told in almost real time, Nikkei sisters Fumiko and Hana return to their home to pack for the shelter before another tornado hits, but discover a writing from their late mother that triggers a remembrance of a far-off place, tied to them through lineage.
