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The Nest

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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.

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Dorothy Woodend The Tyee (British Columbia) Sep 16, 2025
The tidal shift between past and present is delicately summoned through a series of imagined vignettes drawn from the house’s unique past. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Chase Joynt

Director

Julietta Singh

Director

Katherena Vermette

Annie Bannatyne

Joanna Hawkins

Mary Ettie McDermid

Junko Bailey

Mrs. Okazaki

Johanna Phillips

Masa Okazaki
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Synopsis 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.
Director
Chase Joynt, Julietta Singh
Producer
Alicia Smith, Justine Pimlott
Screenwriter
Julietta Singh, Chase Joynt
Production Co
National Film Board of Canada
Genre
Documentary, History
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 29m
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