In the Shadow of the Pines (2020)

• 71%
• 2020
• Animation
• Documentary
• Anne Koizumi

Filmmaker Anne Koizumi explores the childhood shame she felt about her Japanese immigrant father, who worked as a janitor at her school, through stop-motion animation and archival footage. She focuses on the difficult father-daughter relationship questions ideas of shame around being othered as an immigrant in North America and how life-defining experiences can inhibit us from claiming and owning our identities.