back home

Dir. Nisha Platzer
2022, Canada, 90 min

back home follows filmmaker Nisha Platzer’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 film, 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.

Join us on May 3 for an in-person discussion with filmmaker Nisha Platzer.
Generously sponsored by the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival.

“Pushes the documentary form… a poetic, sensory portrait of what it feels like to lose a sibling” – STIR

“There’s a stark tactility to the images of back home, as well as a haunting, ethereal quality … [Platzer’s film] offers a poignant, personal consideration of family, wellness, and the (im)permanence of all things that walk the earth.” – Pat Mullen, POV Magazine