Winter Buoy

Documentary

58 min. and 86 min.

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