“It is as if Chantal Akerman, perhaps for the first time in her career, has revealed the core of her work and her wounds in the most naked of ways.” – Cinema Scope

One of cinema’s most innovative figures, Chantal Akerman (Almayer’s Folly, MIFF 2012) passed away in tragic circumstances in 2015. Her last film, No Home Movie, is not only a fitting coda to her career but her most intimate and personal work as well: a record of her relationship with her mother over the course of the latter’s last year of life.

Through webcam chats, conversations at the kitchen table and shots of lonely landscapes, Akerman constructs a touching, melancholy portrait of her mother, a Holocaust survivor, and also of her own impending grief. In documenting some of their last conversations, No Home Movie is, most of all, a film about love – specifically, the love shared by two women, unbound by physical distance and mortality.

“Reveals an extraordinarily warm, intimate bond … The combination of memoir and abstraction is both cerebral and heartrending.” – Chicago Reader