Winter Buoy
Documentary
Winter Buoy is a poetic and intimate story about the guardian angels behind addicts who want to start a new life.
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In icy mid-winter Toronto, a group of pregnant women desperately strive to regain control of their lives. They have insurmountable forces against them: homelessness, drug addiction, violent relationships. But following these particular individuals are the attentive eyes of their guardian angels, the social workers of a unique public health initiative. If these expectant mothers can only manage to break free of the vicious cycles dogging their steps, they have a chance to keep their newborns. Winter Buoy is a documentary that portrays life in all its fragility. It is a film about trust and the courage to never stop hoping.
Director
Frida Kempf
Producer
David Herdies
Produced by
Momento Film in association with Adomeit Film, Les films du balibari, Film i Väst
Original title
Vinterboj
Format
58 min. and 86 min.
Release
2015
Awards & festivals
Nominated
Best Documentary
GIFF 2015
Nominated
Best Documentary
Tempo 2015
Nominated
Cinéma du Reel
2015