My Dearest Sister

As its title indicates this first feature by Kyoka Tsukamoto is a love letter and a bid for reconciliation It is the story of a woman who left Japan for Montreal while her sister stayed behind Geographical distance isnt the main concern here though it is instead the unbridgeable chasm separating two visions of the womens homeland One of the women stayed rooted in a stifling patriarchal society the other the filmmaker rejected it She alternates brilliantly and tragically between her personal and family story and that of her country questioning the foundations of a society that tolerates and even encourages psychological and physical abuse A deeply intimate selfportrait with many flights of poetry and lyricism that become sources of healing BD