MADE IN COLLABORATION WITH JULIETTA SINGH

LOG LINE

When a daughter returns to say goodbye to her childhood home, she discovers the house as an enchanted portal to forgotten feminist and anticolonial lives she never knew.

SYNOPSIS

The Nest is a feature-length documentary about radical women, interracial alliances, and anticolonial pasts across 140 years of Canadian history told through the story of a single house in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The documentary looks to architecture as a portal through which to tell unexpected and interconnected histories of Indigenous uprising, ecopolitical activism, disability rights, and the racialization of a nation. A collaboration with decolonial writer, Julietta Singh, The Nest uplifts the untold stories of the extraordinary women whose lives are entwined through the house across nearly a century and a half. By displacing the dominant colonial narrative of the house, The Nest reframes Canadian history as a story of interconnected and politically charged feminist and minoritized lives.