Lick Salt
Ryan Feldman
Canada | 2006 | 78mins | Beta | Colour and Black & White
After fifteen years of estrangement, Ryan Feldman is reacquainted with his lonely grandmother Cecile at his grandfather’s funeral. Over the next three years, they form a relationship and the source of the deep rift between Cecile and her son, Ryan’s father, is revealed.
While enduring the parallel struggles of a grandson trying to find his place in the world and his grandmother fighting for the independence that is quickly vanishing from her life, humour is their only saving grace. We are witness to Cecile retreating further and further away from reality, lapsing into some of her earliest childhood memories of fleeing anti-Semitic persecution.
Lick Salt is a personal documentary about heritage, separation, and survival which celebrates the craziness of life.
Will be screened with No Umbrella - Election day In The City |
