Nanitic (film)

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Nanitic
Directed by Carol Nguyen
Written byCarol Nguyen
Produced byMarie Lytwyknuk
Carol Nguyen
StarringKylie Le
Ly Pham
Van Pham
CinematographyAlexandre Nour-Desjardins
Edited byCarol Nguyen
Music byArie Verheul van de Ven
Distributed byTravelling Distribution
Release date
  • September 8, 2022 (2022-09-08)(TIFF)
Running time
14 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
Vietnamese

Nanitic is a 2022 Canadian short drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Carol Nguyen. [1] It stars Kylie Le, Ly Pham, and Van Pham, and follows a young Vietnamese-Canadian girl who observes as her terminally ill grandmother is taken care of by her aunt.

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The film premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, [2] where it was named the winner of the Share Her Journey award. [3] The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2022. [4] It was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2023. [5]

The title of the short film comes from nanitics, which are the first generation of worker ants and shoulder the responsibility in taking care of the colony. As a queen ant's death also means the death of the entire colony, the Vietnamese-Canadian family in Nanitic are concerned for what will happen to them in the future when their matriarch finally dies.

Plot

Vietnamese-Canadian cousins Trang and Mai regularly visit their terminally ill grandmother's house, where they play and secretly keep an ant colony in jars hidden in their Aunt Út's closet. Út herself gets easily annoyed whenever her nieces get into trouble as she is stressed from tending to her mother, who no longer responds and now lies in bed every day in the living room and has a care worker. One day, Trang and Mai discover that their ants' queen has died. After Mai's father takes her home, Út has Trang look after their matriarch while she takes a shower. Trang gets scared when her grandmother begins coughing and calls her aunt for help; the crisis is averted when Út gives her mother some cough medicine. When it is time for Trang to go home, her Aunt Út has discovered the pet ants and makes her niece discard them, reminding her that the insects have their own homes. As Trang leaves, the film ends with her aunt sitting beside their matriarch and praying for her.

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