2020, Michael Aki and Eugenia Yuan, USA, 91 min. With Eugenia Yuan, Shina Kay Idemoto

A self-sufficient career woman has her priorities reset in this open-ended lyrical drama. Olivia (Yuan), unattached and proudly childless, is startled one morning by the appearance at her front door of 12-year-old Sam (Idemoto), the runaway daughter of Olivia’s long-ago fiancé. In the course of a prolonged road trip across a stunning Southwestern landscape, the two build a delicate dependency in which the fantasy roles of parent and child become permeable. Original music score by Goh Nakamura. World premiere. (BS)