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Almost Home
Saturday, 12/7: 10:00 AM-12:00PM
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Director: Susan Cahill, Matt Rogers
Category: Narrative Short
Runtime: 15













Synopsis: "Almost Home" traces the story of Yvonne Hepditch and Jim Cahill as they travel back to an abandoned rural fishing village and to the home they have built together over the last decade on the former site of Yvonne’s family land. The primary footage for this film was shot in 2016, the fiftieth anniversary of Yvonne and her family relocating as part of the government-directed resettlement program. As part of a growing trend of people travelling to and building structures on their family’s former land, Yvonne and Jim’s desire to return to Clattice Harbour is connected to a larger search for home and belonging among many children of the resettlement era. In this way, the documentary tells the ongoing story of resettlement, one that is not buried in a by-gone era of historical documents, but is alive and present in the contemporary life of many people.