A 19-minute gut-punch about art, failure, and the daughter who sees it all.
Jeanne is a black artist in her sixties who hasn't had the career she'd hoped for. She has fallen into a deep depression. Bitter, she is unable to communicate with her thirty-year-old daughter, whose mere presence reminds her of her failures. Will she be able to rise above her bitterness to start living again and break out of her solitude? Perhaps one day.
Acting
Métellus delivers silence like a weapon—every micro-expression cuts.
Direction
Fafin refuses redemption arcs; documentary hybrid approach blurs truth.
Director
Alliah Fafin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Maguy Métellus is a Haitian-Québécois theater legend; Fafin casts her own mother figure to explore real artistic erasure of Black women in Canadian arts.
The 19-minute runtime mirrors Jeanne's attention span for anything beyond her own grief—Fafin weaponizes brevity against audience comfort.
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