When her mother decides to sell their house, decolonial writer Julietta Singh returns to her childhood home on the Assiniboine River to say goodbye. As Singh listens to the stories embedded in its walls, the house reveals 140 years of overlooked histories—Japanese, Deaf, Métis, Indigenous, and Irish women whose lives, like Singh’s, were shaped by resistance and care. In this genre-defying, cross-community film, the home becomes more than a personal archive, transforming into a site of radical feminist possibility.
Weaving the metaphor of a “nest” as both sanctuary and layered history, The Nest connects Singh’s fraught upbringing to a legacy of matriarchs and activists, building bridges across time, identity, and silence.
This film is only screening in person.
Chase Joynt
Chase Joynt is a multi-award-winning director and writer. His documentary feature Framing Agnes was named one of the best movies of the year by The New Yorker and won more than 10 awards, including the Next Innovator Award and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. With Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase co-directed No Ordinary Man, which was presented at Cannes Docs as part of the Canadian Showcase of Docs-in-Progress. Since premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, No Ordinary Man has been hailed by The New Yorker as “a genre unto itself” and by Indiewire as “the future of trans cinema.” The film has won nine awards on the international festival circuit and was named to TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten.
Julietta Singh
Julietta Singh is an award-winning non-fiction writer and academic whose work engages the enduring effects of colonization through attention to ecology, inheritance and systemic inequalities. She is the author of three books: No Archive Will Restore You (2018), Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (2018) and, most recently, The Breaks (2021), a long letter to her daughter about race and mothering at the end of the world. The Nest is her first documentary feature.
Producers
Alicia Smith,
Justine Pimlott
Executive Producers
Chanda Chevannes,
David Christensen
Directors/Writers
Chase Joynt,
Julietta Singh
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