The Justice of Bunny King

Bunny King is a headstrong mother of two with a sketchy past and a razor-sharp tongue. She spends her days washing car windscreens in order to save enough money to regain custody of her kids. After promising her daughter a birthday party, Bunny must fight the social services and break the rules to keep her word, but in doing so risks losing her children altogether. Accompanied by her niece Tonya, Bunny is in a race against the clock and headed towards an epic showdown with the authorities. Gaysorn Thavat’s loveable feature debut is both a funny and touching social realist drama.

‘[This film] is a character piece about a resilient woman struggling to get her kids back in a punitive government system, but more broadly, it’s a social justice action film about motherhood. I absolutely love this character – her joy, wit, and determination, and the fact that she gets it wrong, is deeply conflicted, and yet she makes me smile. Also the desire to frame the resilience and strength of everyday women as kind of superheroes – to rewrite the narrative of motherhood. We have so many narratives about male heroism, yet the strength of women and mothers is rarely celebrated. Sometimes just being a woman, a mother, and surviving in these punitive systems is heroic.’

Director Gaysorn Thavat, from an interview with Women and Hollywood.