Every Friday, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion will share a film recommendation that will support students, staff and faculty in enhancing their understanding of equity, diversity and inclusion.

Students, staff and faculty can access all films featured for free through the NC Libraries and Learning Centres.

This week’s feature film is The Nest.

As her elderly mother faces the end of her life, decolonial writer and educator Julietta Singh returns to her haunted childhood home and uncovers 140 years of hidden feminist histories within its walls. Co-directed with filmmaker Chase Joynt, the film is shaped through close collaboration with the Manitoba Métis Federation, the Manitoba School for the Deaf and the Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba, whose members help reanimate their own silenced pasts. Blending archival research, collective memory and imaginative re-embodiment, the house is transformed from a site of private memory into a living archive of matriarchal resistance. The film asks who is lost in official histories—and what radical possibilities emerge when communities reclaim their place within them.

A woman walking up the stairs.

Sensitive Content Warning: This film has content that may be sensitive for some viewers. Viewer discretion advised. Please take care of yourself when watching the film. 

The following resources are available to Niagara College employees and students: 

Employees 

Full-service EFAP 

  • EFAP services are offered by Homewood Health 
  • Employees and their family members can call 1-800-663-1142 or visit Homeweb.ca with login code NC4321 

Students 

Health, Wellness, and Accessibility Services Niagara College

Access the film

After viewing the film, we encourage you to reflect on the following questions:

  1. What insights will you be taking away from the film?
  2. What will you say or do differently as a result of watching the film?
  3. How can you apply what you’ve learned to your time here at NC and in your community?
  4. What would you like to learn more about as a result of watching the film?

If you experience any challenges accessing the films, please reach out to the Libraries and Learning Centres at [email protected].

If you have any questions related to the content of the films, please contact Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at [email protected].