“Perfectly timed and sequenced, Akin is so resolutely personal in it’s detailing. Joynt points to a place, draws a circle around it, and then refuses to fill it in, restraint that leaves a powerful silence in which the viewer can inhabit.”
With haunting suburban visuals backed by the rich sounds of Toronto based-band Ohbijou, Akin reckons with legacies of intergenerational sexual violence through shared kinship between Joynt's decision to transition and his mother’s conversion to Orthodox Judaism.
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