Jacquelyn Mills

Kathleen is a hairdresser who uses her talents in the most tender and gentle of ways: she primps and pampers people in palliative care, committed to creating small moments of normalcy and joy in their lives.

While recovering in the hospital, a suicidal teenager forms an intimate bond with the Shanghai student assigned to watch over her, as their nightly exchange of secrets and texts alters the course of both their lives.

Three children try to understand the death of their mother through innocent yet deep questioning. In exploring nature and his connection with animals, the middle child Josh comes to a peaceful resolve.

A young woman attempts to extract meaning from an intense loss as she encounters signs in her daily life and through the art of Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky. Point and Line to Plane portrays the phenomenon of magical thinking endured during an individual’s journey to process, heal and document a period of mourning.

An immersion into the rich landscapes of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote strip of sand.

Two unstable teens live together in a slum apartment. When, in a poetic move, rats start invading their home, they realize that they have to deal with an unspoken matter that is threatening to ruin their relationship.

A young woman delves into the archives of the New York Public Library in search of a rare recording produced in 1909 titled “Veslemøy's Song”.

Canada. The peaceful life of an old lady, in a village on the seaside, is disturbed by a sudden confrontation with the fragility of life. This moment sends her back into her past to seek out the meaning of existence. But the arrival of her niece and her children will all of a sudden fill this gap. The filmmaker says: “My film is an intergenerational love letter between niece and grandmother, an ebb and flow between dreams and reality, between past and present, between the magic of childhood and the encounter with death.” Old age, time that flies by. Youth, time that remains slow.