“Loss isn’t an absence after all, it’s a presence.”
Jackie Kay, Trumpet (1998)
A Different Home asks what “home” means for queer people who live in a city but grew up in a rural place. Interviews layered on Scottish landscape shots explore the tensions between craving a rural life and thriving in an urban queer community. Interviewees share their sense of belonging to and alienation from both cities and rural spaces. Visually rooted to the land, this documentary reflects on what it means to grieve a space and a home which are still there but do not welcome us as who we are.
Director: Jules Lacave-Fontourcy
Cinematographer and editor: Mitchell Morton
Sound editor: Nicolas Jarnoux
Latest news
-
SQUIFF Scottish Shorts Night
What a night! The opening of @a_different_home was incredible. Hearing people laugh, pause, as they watched and listened to the stories we’d been trusted to share with the world was truly unique. Hearing people who came up to us to say we’d given them a way to express how they felt about their home was the most…
-
A Different Home – Premiere
Come see our film at SQUIFF on October 8th !! We can’t wait to share it with you at last.
-
We made it
We’re nearly there folks! We’re polishing the final few details and the soundtrack. I can’t believe we made it.To all our interviewees and everyone who helped us make this: THANK YOU 🌻We can’t wait to share it with you! Directed by @jlfphotographyEdited by @actuallyitsmitchSound design @nicojrx With support from @scotsqueerfilm A @queer_film_night production
-
Calling for interviewees!
Saturday was interview day and we recorded some beautiful words. We want to hear more stories from queer people who grew up in the countryside and their relationship to “home”. The interviewees faces will not appear in the final film, but your powerful words of resilience will.DM us or email documentary@queerfilmnight.co.uk if you’d like to…
-
A Different Home
We’re making a documentary! A Different Home asks what “home” means for queer people who grew up in a rural place and now live in an urban centre. We are exploring the tensions between craving a rural life whilst having found a sense of belonging to a queer community in a city. We ask what…
