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, CIFF 2022; NO ORDINARY MAN, CIFF 2020) 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, Singh and Joynt question who gets lost in the archives of history, and what we stand to gain by resurrecting them. Beautiful and beguiling, THE NEST transforms a single home from a place of siloed histories into a site of radical collective potential.

PROGRAMMERS NOTE: This film will be presented with Open Captions at both screenings.