Acclaimed South Korean director Lee Chang-dong follows his award-winning Secret Sunshine with the story of another woman raising a child on her own.

Mija (an extraordinary performance by veteran actress Yun Jung-hee) is a proper, sixty-ish woman struggling to provide for her adolescent grandson. Faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime, she finds strength and purpose upon enrolling in a poetry class — a creative process that allows her to understand and escape her own pain.

Best Screenplay winner at the Cannes International Film Festival, and an official selection at the New York, Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals, Poetry is a masterful study of the subtle empowerment — and moral compass — of an indefatigable older woman.