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![]() Platzer interviews old friends and family, and pores through her brother Josh’s acutely sensitive and philosophical diary entries. Through visual textures, a layered soundscape, and words, it captures the swirl of grief that still haunts survivors well over a decade after the tragedy. The film pushes the documentary form, less a methodical search for who Platzer’s brother was, and more a poetic, sensory portrait of what it feels like to lose a sibling and grapple with the fact that they took their own life. The work briefly returns here, after premiering at last year’s Vancouver International Film Festival, to VIFF Centre’s ode to new voices, marking National Canadian Film Day. ![]() ![]() IMAGERY OF rustling leaves, rippling ocean waves, pavement chalk drawings, and bramble-covered train tracks all take on deeper meaning in back home-Vancouver-raised director Nisha Platzer’s impressionistic documentary ode to the brother she lost to suicide in 1999, when she was 11 and he was 15. ![]()
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