Synopsis : This Place follows the love story of Kawenniióhstha, half-Iranian, half-Mohawk, and Tamil Malai in Toronto. Kawenniióhstha seeks her estranged father, while Malai reconciles with her alcoholic dad battling cancer. The film delves into cultural displacement, love, and loss within two families, with their intertwined journeys at its heart.
Festival History : Toronto International Film Festival, 2022
Director :
V.T. Nayani
Producer :
Stephanie Sonny Hooker
Screenplay :
Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, Golshan Abdmoulaie, V. T. Nayani
DOP :
Conor Fisher
Editor :
Maureen Grant
Cast :
Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, Priya Guns
V.T. Nayani is a Tamil director, producer, actor and screenwriter from Toronto. Her work intimately explores how we continuously come of age. V.T. is widely known for directing, writing and producing the mid-length documentary SHADEISM: DIGGING DEEPER (2015). Her highly-anticipated debut feature THIS PLACE, premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival (Discovery Programme), and is scheduled for release in 2023.