A Sister’s Song


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Can we ever truly know what's in a loved one’s heart? A Sister’s Song is the intimate story of two sisters, Marina and Tatiana, who are separated by Tatiana’s choice to become a nun. Marina, who has barely seen or spoken to her sister in twenty years, senses that something is now wrong. She journeys to a cloistered monastery in Greece to find the sister she has lost. A dramatic turn of events will lead them both on a path and neither knows where it will lead them.



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Danae Elon

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One film sows another. The seed of this documentary was a fortuitous encounter that occurred in an Orthodox monastery in Greece as she was shooting her film, The Patriarch's Room. There, Danae Elon meet Tatiana, a nun, and later on, her sister Marina, who becomes a central part of this next film. Tatiana, a subtle, mysterious, and introverted being,  is "worthy of being a fictional character.”

 

The documentary depicts an encounter between two discordant worlds tied together with a thread of profound sisterly love that exists in the shadow of a fatal certainty: the sisters’ universes will remain alien to one another. Elon strays away from any sensationalism in her subject matter, as well as any form of condemnation of Tatiana, Sister Jerusalem’s, choices. It is there that, quite precisely, the complexity of this documentary project resides–and its finesse: how to penetrate the intimacy of Sister Jerusalem who perceives it a sin to confess to any person other than her spiritual father? It is an arduous task to pierce her shell in order to encounter the vulnerabilities that make her human.    

 

The discreet eye of the filmmaker, skillfully enmeshed with that of her camera, as if in the background, is added to this complex relationship. For Marina, this complicit eye will give her the necessary means to undertake this journey towards her sister.  

 

There is no moral to the story, only the trajectory matters: a strong structure that honours the fundamental questions in all of their nuance and subtlety. The strength of the work lies in the open end of the film, one not easy to swallow, nonetheless, and one that has earned the film much criticism.

 

 

Gabrielle Ouimet
Tënk's Artistic Director

 

 

Bonus
 


  • FR - Le chant d'une soeur

    FR - Le chant d'une soeur


    Language: Français
  • EN - Le chant d'une soeur

    EN - Le chant d'une soeur


    Language: English
  • Année 2018
  • Pays Israel, Quebec
  • Durée 80
  • Producteur Atria Productions, Entre Deux Mondes
  • Langue English, Hebrew, Greek
  • Sous-titres French, English
  • Résumé court Can we ever truly know what's in a loved one’s heart? An intimate story of two sisters who are separated by one’s choice to become a nun.
  • Programmateur Naomie Décarie-Daigneault|Tënk's Artistic Director;
  • Ordre 1
  • Capsule film <p>D&eacute;couvrez un entretien&nbsp;avec Danae Elon r&eacute;alis&eacute; par T&euml;nk dans le cadre du projet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tenk.ca/fr/documentaires/vues-d-ici" target="_blank"><em>Vues d&#x27;Ici</em></a>.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="480" scrolling="no" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/706672042?h=ea1997ef06" width="854"></iframe></p>

One film sows another. The seed of this documentary was a fortuitous encounter that occurred in an Orthodox monastery in Greece as she was shooting her film, The Patriarch's Room. There, Danae Elon meet Tatiana, a nun, and later on, her sister Marina, who becomes a central part of this next film. Tatiana, a subtle, mysterious, and introverted being,  is "worthy of being a fictional character.”

 

The documentary depicts an encounter between two discordant worlds tied together with a thread of profound sisterly love that exists in the shadow of a fatal certainty: the sisters’ universes will remain alien to one another. Elon strays away from any sensationalism in her subject matter, as well as any form of condemnation of Tatiana, Sister Jerusalem’s, choices. It is there that, quite precisely, the complexity of this documentary project resides–and its finesse: how to penetrate the intimacy of Sister Jerusalem who perceives it a sin to confess to any person other than her spiritual father? It is an arduous task to pierce her shell in order to encounter the vulnerabilities that make her human.    

 

The discreet eye of the filmmaker, skillfully enmeshed with that of her camera, as if in the background, is added to this complex relationship. For Marina, this complicit eye will give her the necessary means to undertake this journey towards her sister.  

 

There is no moral to the story, only the trajectory matters: a strong structure that honours the fundamental questions in all of their nuance and subtlety. The strength of the work lies in the open end of the film, one not easy to swallow, nonetheless, and one that has earned the film much criticism.

 

 

Gabrielle Ouimet
Tënk's Artistic Director

 

 

Bonus
 


  • FR - Le chant d'une soeur

    FR - Le chant d'une soeur


    Language: Français
  • EN - Le chant d'une soeur

    EN - Le chant d'une soeur


    Language: English
  • Année 2018
  • Pays Israel, Quebec
  • Durée 80
  • Producteur Atria Productions, Entre Deux Mondes
  • Langue English, Hebrew, Greek
  • Sous-titres French, English
  • Résumé court Can we ever truly know what's in a loved one’s heart? An intimate story of two sisters who are separated by one’s choice to become a nun.
  • Programmateur Naomie Décarie-Daigneault|Tënk's Artistic Director;
  • Ordre 1
  • Capsule film <p>D&eacute;couvrez un entretien&nbsp;avec Danae Elon r&eacute;alis&eacute; par T&euml;nk dans le cadre du projet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tenk.ca/fr/documentaires/vues-d-ici" target="_blank"><em>Vues d&#x27;Ici</em></a>.</p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="480" scrolling="no" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/706672042?h=ea1997ef06" width="854"></iframe></p>

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