## Breadcrumb 1. [Home](/index%2Ephp/) 2. [News and Stories](/index%2Ephp/news) 3. [Associate professor’s film wins best documentary award](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/4054) November 24, 2025 # Associate professor’s film wins best documentary award ![Min Sook Lee](/sites/default/files/styles/1_5_1_large/public/2025-11/1762545700894.jpg.webp?itok=hlRoEK3t) Still from "There Are No Words". rgb(255,255,255) OCAD University Associate Professor [Min Sook Lee’s](https://www.shedoesthecity.com/artist-of-the-month-for-min-sook-lee-art-is-not-just-a-mirror-but-a-hammer/) documentary [*There Are No Words* ](https://povmagazine.com/min-sook-lee-seeks-her-mothers-story/)topped the winners at this year’s [Reel Asian International Film Festival](https://www.reelasian.com/festival/awards-2025/). *There Are No Words* scored the Reel Asian-DOC Institute Best Documentary Award among the prizes handed out on Nov. 6, 2025. The NFB doc tells Lee’s personal story and that of her parents as she gets her guarded father to open up about the harmful consequences of his behaviour and his impact on Lee’s mother, who died by suicide after the family moved to Canada from Korea. “At once brave, beautiful, and heartbreaking, there are no answers in this investigation of transgenerational silences intertwined with personal and political histories of migration, violence, and family secrets,” remarked the jury in a statement. “This haunting film is a moving ode to living on in the face of grief and difficult inheritances.” *The film also won an* [honourable mention](https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanmacdonald/2025/09/14/no-other-choice-wins-new-international-peoples-choice-award-at-tiff/) *for Best Canadian Feature Film at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.* **Source:** [Canada’s Documentary Magazine POV](https://povmagazine.com/there-are-no-words-wins-best-documentary-at-reel-asian/) ## Other Recent News [### 2027 Critical Distance Centre for Curators Projections Program Call for Artists OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) and Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) have partnered to co-create CDCC Projections Program Career Launcher. Four (4) to five (5) selected emerging artists will receive $690 to exhibit work in a single channel, projection-based screening program that will be displayed at the CDCC in March 2027. October 30, 2026 ](/news/2027-critical-distance-centre-curators-projections-program-call-artists) [### Call for Vendors: BAM! Holiday Art Market 2026 OCAD University's RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) is excited to partner again with Wychwood Barns to offer a curated group of OCAD U students and recent alumni the opportunity to share a vendor table at the BAM! Holiday Art Market. October 26, 2026 ](/news/call-vendors-bam-holiday-art-market-2026) [### OCAD U’s Global Centre for Climate Action and EU bring large-scale art to Toronto’s Canada Malting Silos "The Light" and "Melting Temporalities" transformed the waterfront into a canvas for climate reflection. October 6, 2026 ](/news/ocad-us-global-centre-climate-action-and-eu-bring-large-scale-art-torontos-canada-malting) Related Stories ## Related Stories [### 2027 Critical Distance Centre for Curators Projections Program Call for Artists OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) and Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) have partnered to co-create CDCC Projections Program Career Launcher. Four (4) to five (5) selected emerging artists will receive $690 to exhibit work in a single channel, projection-based screening program that will be displayed at the CDCC in March 2027. October 30, 2026 ](/news/2027-critical-distance-centre-curators-projections-program-call-artists) [### Call for Vendors: BAM! Holiday Art Market 2026 OCAD University's RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD) is excited to partner again with Wychwood Barns to offer a curated group of OCAD U students and recent alumni the opportunity to share a vendor table at the BAM! Holiday Art Market. October 26, 2026 ](/news/call-vendors-bam-holiday-art-market-2026) [### OCAD U’s Global Centre for Climate Action and EU bring large-scale art to Toronto’s Canada Malting Silos "The Light" and "Melting Temporalities" transformed the waterfront into a canvas for climate reflection. October 6, 2026 ](/news/ocad-us-global-centre-climate-action-and-eu-bring-large-scale-art-torontos-canada-malting)