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The Nest

Directed by Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh
Canada, 2025 (documentary, 99 minutes, colour, English)
Also known as "Le nid"
The Nest
Image: © National Film Board of Canada
Video (National Film Board of Canada) [French]
Video (National Film Board of Canada)

Film Description:
"At the end of her mother's life, decolonial writer Julietta Singh returns to say goodbye to her haunted childhood home. As she digs into the history of the house, she uncovers 140 years of forgotten matriarchs and political rebels she never knew. Singh teams up with acclaimed filmmaker Chase Joynt (Framing Agnes, No Ordinary Man) for a politically charged cross-community collaboration that deftly interweaves Indigenous, Deaf, Japanese and South Asian histories, all connected through the home. A reckoning with memory, matriarchy and the enduring legacies of silenced voices, the film questions who gets lost in the archives of history, and what we stand to gain by resurrecting them. The Nest transforms a single home from a place of siloed histories into a site of radical collective potential."
-- National Film Board of Canada (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Julietta Singh, Chase Joynt
Produced by: Alicia Smith, Justine Pimlott, Chanda Chevannes, David Christensen
Narrator: Julietta Singh
Cinematography: Chris Romeike
Film Editing: Pauline Decroix
Music: Justin Delorme
Production Company: National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada
(sources)

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