LIFSociety Virtual Cinema To Screen Academy Award Nominee MINARI

MINARI

Feb. 12-25th

Tickets- $20

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Long Beach Island, NJ - The Lighthouse International Film Society (LIFS) will begin screening the acclaimed MINARI as one of virtual award- winning winter film series February 12th- 25th. This is a special partnership with the international distributor A24 and tickets are limited. The Lighthouse International Film Society is one of a select group of virtual theaters screening the film prior to its theater release. MINARI is scheduled to open in theaters nationally soon and had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month winning both the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award. MINARI has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. The film is in English/Korean

MINARI stars Steven Yeun ,Yeri Han, Youn Yuh-jung and Will Patton and was directed by Lee Isaac Chung. It tells the story of a Korean family that moves to rural Arkansas in the 1980s to start a farm and raise their two children. Husband Jacob Yi (Yeun) and wife Monica (Han) plan to grow minari, a peppery Korean version of watercress. Working fulltime in a poultry hatchery while trying to start the farm and raise their children soon becomes overbearing. To help watch the kids during the day, they arrange for Monica's mother Soon-ja (Yuh-jung) to travel from Korea to help care for their son David, who has a heart condition and his sister Anne. Jacob is eventually befriended by his Pentecostal neighbor Paul (Patton) who helps him get the water flowing to save his dream.

According to its Sundance review MINARI is “Gentle as the stream that flows through the Yi’s property, and yet powerful enough to reverberate for generations to come, Chung’s loving — and immensely lovable — immigrant drama interrogates the American Dream with the hard-edged hope of a family that needs to believe in something before they lose all faith in each other.”

Chung is the film’s executive producer along with actor Brad Pitt. He draws on his own childhood experience growing up in rural America. MINARI is more than a story about immigration, it is the story of the American dream and the struggle, courage and sacrifice it takes to make that dream come true.

**We would like to thank our sponsors: The Gables, Country Kettle Fudge, Zen- Sushi-Asian Cuisine,and The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences.

For more information/ Tickets on the Lighthouse International Film Society Virtual Cinema’s current and upcoming virtual screenings and the 2021 Lighthouse International Film Festival visit http://www.lightfilmfestival.org

The 13th Annual Lighthouse International Film Festival will take place

June 3-6, 2021.

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Trailer - MINARI https://youtu.be/KQ0gFidlro8