Directed by Lee Isaac Chung and featuring production design by AFI Alum Yong Ok Lee (AFI Class of 2013), MINARI (2020) was honored with an AFI AWARD, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the official AFI AWARDS rationale, “MINARI blossoms with hope in...

The debut feature of acclaimed filmmaker and Academy Award® nominee Lee Isaac Chung (MINARI), MUNYURANGABO (2007) is an elegiac, neorealist drama that follows unlikely friends Sangwa (a Hutu) and Ngabo (a Tutsi) as they journey home nearly a decade after the Rwandan Genocide. The film screened at AFI FEST and won the Grand Jury Prize for...

"MINARI blossoms with hope in the beating heart of America. Lee Isaac Chung’s deeply personal saga is an ode to the unrelenting pressure of the pioneer spirit. Universal questions about home, pride and identity drive the narrative to touch both hearts and minds, as the Yi family dreams for more in a field of uncertainty. Steven Yeun...