This was premiered at the TIFF Friday 8 Sept 2023 with a huge crowd. The director shared that The Finestkind was conceived and written more than 20 years ago, but was one of his latest (not last) works. It's because big studios don't like to make films that are just good on basis of deep exploration of basic but essential human relationships. Luckily, with the director's record and faith by paramount, they created a simple film set in MA (USA)'s fishing port that immerses us in the hard but courageous lives of fishermen. The crisis in the movie is most unreal, but narratively superb in allowing the full expression of brotherly-fatherly love and friendship-mateship. So at last viewers will be able to understand the nuanced and rich Title Phrase "the finestkind".

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