Synopsis
Currently, post pandemic, one in two young people show symptoms of anxiety and depression. The World Is Ours is a film that gives the opportunity to six Montreal teenage girls to leave their urban environment for the first time to take part in a nature canoe-camping expedition. By presenting their struggles and small victories, the film poetically and luminously embraces their vulnerability, emphasizing in broad strokes the power of female sisterhood and therapeutic intervention by nature. In an intervention cinema approach and seeking to democratize access to the outdoors for marginalized communities, the production of the film took on the responsibility of defraying the costs of the expedition for these six young women.
A word from Tënk
We need to find a place.
Whenever possible, we must absolutely find a place and take care of it. As long as there are places left, we must search for them. If none exist anymore, we must continue to create them nonetheless. Fight to make them emerge and proliferate before they disappear completely.
A place of contemplation to heal our bodies, our senses, and our damaged souls. To find a way, even if fleeting, to extract ourselves from uncertainty and violence for a moment. Just enough time to give a new echo to our thoughts.
By the fire that welcomes their confidences, through knowing glances or along the water's edge, the protagonists of The World Is Ours discover one such place. We hope that its existence does not end with the days spent in this forest, and that it continues to reside somewhere within them.
We need to find places that become worlds.
Yulia Kaiava
Tënk's editorial assistant
