Riceballs
DFI Cinema Under the Stars
/ Short Narrative / Australia / 2015 / Colour
In English, Japanese / Arabic, English subtitles
Gulf Premiere
Rated: Parental guidance is advised. Some material may be inappropriate for young children.
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Synopsis
Kenji has lost his wife and Josh has lost his mother, and this father-son duo is not finding it easy to communicate without her. In taking over the day-to-day care of his boy, Kenji finds himself relying on Japanese rather than Australian culture – and this is perhaps nowhere more apparent than in Josh’s lunchbox. At first, Josh craves nothing more than his mother’s OzEmite sandwiches, but eventually Kenji has a creative brainwave that gets the mourning pair’s lives back on track.