LGBT Coming-of-Age Feature ‘This Place’ Arrives on Digital, VOD March 25

A coming-of-age story about two women falling in love for the first time. As they grow closer, each is forced to confront their family histories in unexpected ways, while navigating multiple legacies of grief and love.

Directed by: V.T. Nayani
Starring: Devery Jacobs, Priya Guns, Ali Momen
Written by: V.T. Nayani, Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, Golshan Abdmoulaie
Rating: NR
Running time: 87 minutes
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Studio: Freestyle Digital Media
Website: www.thisplacefilm.com

A coming-of-adulthood story about two women falling in love for the first time. As they grow closer, each is forced to confront their family histories in unexpected ways, while navigating multiple legacies of grief and love. One woman is half-Iranian, half-Mohawk; the other is Tamil. Kawenniióhstha has moved to Toronto to pursue her dream of becoming a poet. The city is also where her estranged father lives. Raised by her single Kanien’kehá:ka mother in Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Territory, she never knew her dad. And he does not know she exists. She yearns to meet him but struggles to make contact. For Malai, after the passing of her mother, her father’s alcoholism reaches its peak, pushing her to leave home with her elder brother. Years later, as her father battles terminal cancer, she tries to reconcile with him while navigating her brother’s refusal to do the same. Through two families complicated by love and loss, this film intimately explores the stories of those living in the liminal space between cultures, displaced both at home and abroad. At the center remains Kawenniióhstha and Malai, whose journeys we follow together and apart.