THE NEST
Film poster for "The Nest." Collage of a house with people and flowers.
THE NEST
Film poster for "The Nest." Collage of a house with people and flowers.
In a house full of secrets, centuries of forgotten matriarchs emerge to reveal untold stories of resistance and resilience

THE NEST

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BEST PICTURE EDITING IN A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY - Director's Guild of Canada | BEST ORIGINAL SCORE FOR A DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM - Canadian Screen Music Awards OFFICIAL SELECTION - Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival

Women's History • Activism & Resistance • Decolonization • Disability Justice • Métis History • Canadian History


Date of Completion: 2025 | Run Time: 89 minutes | Languages: English, Japanese, American Sign Language with English subtitles Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Directors: Chase Joynt & Julietta Singh | Producers: Alicia Smith, Justine Pimlort, Chanda Chevannes & David Christensen | Director of Photography: Chris Romeike | Editing: Pauline Decroix | Music: Justine Delorme

At the end of her mother’s life, decolonial writer Julietta Singh returns to her childhood home to say goodbye and confront its haunted past. Investigating the house’s history, she uncovers 140 years of forgotten matriarchs and political rebels whose stories were erased. Collaborating with filmmaker Chase Joynt, Singh creates a politically charged, cross-community film that weaves together Indigenous, Deaf, Japanese, and South Asian histories linked through the home. A meditation on memory, matriarchy, and silenced voices, THE NEST asks who is lost in historical archives — and what becomes possible when those stories are recovered — reimagining a single house as a site of collective reckoning and radical potential.

AWARDS
Best Picture Editing in a Feature Documentary | Director's Guild of Canada
Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature Film
| Canadian Screen Music Awards
Official Selection
| Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival

FESTIVALS
Calgary International Film Festival
Hot Docs
Hamptons International Film Festival               
Vancouver Queer Film Festival