Two decades after her mother’s disappearance, Noriko Oi returns to her hometown of Nagasaki to put her childhood home up for sale. As the rooms empty, this homecoming becomes an intimate quest, revealing fragments of a painful past buried beneath the rubble of history’s defining nuclear attack. In her desire to discover this woman beyond her maternal role, and facing the inability to ask her questions directly, Noriko turns to the survivors of the same catastrophe, breaking the silence of an intergenerational trauma. Cinematographer Laurence Lévesque captures this moving story through a stringently sparse aesthetic and meditative rhythm, subtly reflecting a culture where emotions are often hidden. (AAM)

Laurence Lévesque also programmed in the festival a free screening of L.A Tea Time as part of Doc-to-doc and will participate in a conversation with the filmmaker Sophie Bédard Marcotte.

competition : New Visions Competition

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