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In a house full of secrets, centuries of forgotten matriarchs emerge to reveal untold stories of resistance and resilience.
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, No Ordinary Man) 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, the film questions who gets lost in the archives of history, and what we stand to gain by resurrecting them. The Nest transforms a single home from a place of siloed histories into a site of radical collective potential.
Julietta Singh is an award-winning non-fiction writer and academic whose work engages the enduring effects of colonization through attention to ecology, inheritance and systemic inequalities. She is the author of three books: No Archive Will Restore You (2018), Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (2018) and, most recently, The Breaks (2021), a long letter to her daughter about race and mothering at the end of the world. The Nest is her first documentary feature.
Chase Joynt is a multi-award-winning director and writer. His documentary feature Framing Agnes was named one of the best movies of the year by The New Yorker and won more than 10 awards, including the Next Innovator Award and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. With Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase co-directed No Ordinary Man, which was presented at Cannes Docs as part of the Canadian Showcase of Docs-in-Progress. Since premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, No Ordinary Man has been hailed by The New Yorker as “a genre unto itself” and by Indiewire as “the future of trans cinema.” The film has won nine awards on the international festival circuit and was named to TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten.
- Year2025
- Runtime89 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- Premiere2025
- DirectorJulietta Singh, Chase Joynt
In a house full of secrets, centuries of forgotten matriarchs emerge to reveal untold stories of resistance and resilience.
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, No Ordinary Man) 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, the film questions who gets lost in the archives of history, and what we stand to gain by resurrecting them. The Nest transforms a single home from a place of siloed histories into a site of radical collective potential.
Julietta Singh is an award-winning non-fiction writer and academic whose work engages the enduring effects of colonization through attention to ecology, inheritance and systemic inequalities. She is the author of three books: No Archive Will Restore You (2018), Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (2018) and, most recently, The Breaks (2021), a long letter to her daughter about race and mothering at the end of the world. The Nest is her first documentary feature.
Chase Joynt is a multi-award-winning director and writer. His documentary feature Framing Agnes was named one of the best movies of the year by The New Yorker and won more than 10 awards, including the Next Innovator Award and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. With Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase co-directed No Ordinary Man, which was presented at Cannes Docs as part of the Canadian Showcase of Docs-in-Progress. Since premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, No Ordinary Man has been hailed by The New Yorker as “a genre unto itself” and by Indiewire as “the future of trans cinema.” The film has won nine awards on the international festival circuit and was named to TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten.
- Year2025
- Runtime89 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryCanada
- Premiere2025
- DirectorJulietta Singh, Chase Joynt
