back home

Producer
Directed by Nisha Platzer
Telefilm Talent to Watch fund, Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council & National Film Board
2022

back home follows the filmmaker’s pursuit to get to know her older brother, Josh, twenty years after he took his own life. As she connects with the friends who knew him best as a teen, a complex portrait emerges. Through intimate recollections re-imagined on Super8 and 16mm, and lyrical images hand-processed with plants, seaweed, soil and ashes, back home floats between memory and present time in a fragmented meditation on identity, grief and loss: illuminating the transformative power of healing in community.

Photo credit: Jeremiah Reyes; Poster by Julia Pepler