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Erika, a young Okinawan-Canadian animator living in Vancouver, makes an unexpected road trip to rural BC when her stubborn Oba refuses to evacuate the family farm as wildfires close in. As Erika tries to convince her grandmother to leave, vignettes of vivid memories reveal Oba’s past — from her departure from Okinawa, Japan during the war, to the tumultuous childhood of Erika’s mother and the bittersweet reality of strawberry picking. Fielding urgent calls to evacuate from her sister Hanna, Erika must reckon with the complicated ties that bind her to the farm.
Written and Directed by Hayley Gray and Kaayla Whachell, Send the Rain is a tender, quietly funny portrait of a family negotiating history, responsibility, and the pull of home. Caleb Chan’s evocative score deepens the film’s sense of place, while Whachell and Gray’s understated direction lets generational tensions emerge organically. Unfolding entirely in the BC interior, Send the Rain finds its drama in the gap between knowing when to let go and when to stay.
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Erika, a young Okinawan-Canadian animator living in Vancouver, makes an unexpected road trip to rural BC when her stubborn Oba refuses to evacuate the family farm as wildfires close in. As Erika tries to convince her grandmother to leave, vignettes of vivid memories reveal Oba’s past — from her departure from Okinawa, Japan during the war, to the tumultuous childhood of Erika’s mother and the bittersweet reality of strawberry picking. Fielding urgent calls to evacuate from her sister Hanna, Erika must reckon with the complicated ties that bind her to the farm.
Written and Directed by Hayley Gray and Kaayla Whachell, Send the Rain is a tender, quietly funny portrait of a family negotiating history, responsibility, and the pull of home. Caleb Chan’s evocative score deepens the film’s sense of place, while Whachell and Gray’s understated direction lets generational tensions emerge organically. Unfolding entirely in the BC interior, Send the Rain finds its drama in the gap between knowing when to let go and when to stay.
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