LOADING
Directed by Rhayne Vermette | 80 minutes | 15+ | Australian Premiere |
1:00pm Saturday, 31 May | Pink Flamingo Down Under | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
HOME HAS MANY FACES
Four years after leaving her daughter to be raised by her brother and his wife, Renée (writer/director Rhayne Vermette) returns to find an entirely different life from the one she left behind.
In her evocative, collage-like 16mm film, Vermette immerses the viewer in the sounds, textures, and atmosphere of her native Manitoba to limn the outer edges of a twilight-toned narrative centering on a long-missing young woman’s unexpected return to her indigenous Métis community. Unbeholden to temporal or structural boundaries, Vermette uses Renée’s reappearance as the anchor point for a work of dreams and memory. Shot over the course of 14 months, incorporating scripted and improvised elements, Ste. Anne is as much a fragmentary portrait of the seasons as it is about the people whose lives are dictated in part by nature’s flow.
Featuring members of Vermette’s own family and community, this lovingly made personal project won Best Canadian Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2021.
SIMILAR: High Tide (1987), Aftersun (2022), News from Home, Geographies of Solitude
"Searing and meditative" - The Globe and Mail
"Vermette ... prioritizes closeness, striving for a new cinematic vernacular to depict intimacy beyond just the interaction of the actors." - Patrick Preziosi, In Review Online
Co-Presented with Artist Film Workshop
Country: Canada
Year: 2021
Language: French