“The Defector,” a documentary film directed and produced by a Canadian-Korean director, will have a free screening in Toronto next month, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Saturday.

The film by award-winning director Ann Shin will be screened at Innis Town Hall of the University of Toronto on July 4, the Washington-based radio station said.

The film takes the Toronto-based director on an arduous journey with two North Korean defectors, who have high hopes of gaining a better life in South Korea, from the North Korea-China border all the way to Bangkok, it said.

The film, which has received acclaim at a documentary film festival held in Toronto last month, has also been nominated for awards by four other international film festivals, it added. (Yonhap News)