Events › Film Screening and Filmmaker Q&A: Nisha Platzer's 'back home'

Join award-winning local filmmaker Nisha Platzer for a screening of her debut feature documentary back home, a kaleidoscopic portrait of loss and healing.

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 handprocessed 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.

After the screening, Nisha will discuss her creative vision and process.

Watch the trailer here.

Runtime: 90 min.

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Nisha Platzer (she/her) is a queer artist and filmmaker from Vancouver, Canada. Her films meld sounds and imagery that you can dream and drown in. Her short film, Vaivén (2020) won the best film award at aluCine Latin Film & Media Arts Festival and competed at festivals worldwide including Raindance, Festival Nouveau Cinéma, FIDBA, and Ji.hlava. Nisha studied at the renowned Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba. Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council and the National Film Board of Canada. She teaches handmade film workshops and is a member of Iris Film Collective. An alumnus of IDFAcademy, the VIFF mentorship program, and the Hot Docs Doc Accelerator Lab, her work can be found in music videos, narrative, and experimental films. back home is her first feature documentary supported by Telefilm Talent to Watch and presented at the Docs-in-Progress Canadian Showcase at Cannes Film Festival 2022.

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Seating is limited, so we recommend arriving early.

The Inspiration Lab is proud to present this special summer screening in partnership with DOXA.