Our November America 250 selection, Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, follows a Korean American family pursuing a new life on a small Arkansas farm in the early 1980s. It is a deeply American story of immigration, land, work, faith, family, and reinvention—but also a searching examination of the costs hidden within the American dream. Who bears the burden of one person’s ambition? Does independence ever exist without care and dependency? What transforms a piece of land into a home? Arriving during harvest and Thanksgiving season, Minari also asks us to think about cultivation and gratitude: whose labor sustains a family, whose histories inhabit the land, and what conditions allow transplanted lives to flourish. Its answer is both modest and profound: nothing grows entirely on its own.

Related Events

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  Critique & Coffee Club

  November 14 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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  LBC Wind & Percussion Ensemble Concert

  November 15 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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  Disposable Humanity Screening and Q&A

  November 17 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm