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Blink

Blink

Edmund Stenson, Daniel Roher
Canada, United States
2024
87 min
Dutch Premiere
Best of Fests
Synopsis

How would you deal with the unexpected diagnosis that three of your four children will be severely visually impaired due to an untreatable genetic condition? Edith Lemay and Sebastian Pelletier dream up something they can do for their children: let them see as much of the world as possible before the inevitable occurs. The six of them draw up a bucket list. It includes everything from a safari, horseback-riding and eating ice cream, to “drinking fruit juice on a camel.”

The filmmakers follow the family on this unforgettable journey that takes them across the globe and around the world. The film seamlessly blends intimate family home videos with breathtaking, observational verité, telling the family’s story with gentle grace.

As splendid as their adventure is, concerns about the future surface: it starts getting difficult for the young ones to play football in the evening light, and when night falls while they're stuck in a cable car, everyone realizes that another, similar darkness is not far away.

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Credits
87 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: English, French
Director
    Edmund Stenson,
    Daniel Roher
    Edmund Stenson,
    Daniel Roher
Production
    Melanie Miller for Fishbowl Films,
    Diane Becker for Fishbowl Films
    Melanie Miller for Fishbowl Films,
    Diane Becker for Fishbowl Films
Editing
    Miranda Yousef,
    Ryan Mullins
    Miranda Yousef,
    Ryan Mullins
World Sales
    National Geographic Channel
    National Geographic Channel
Screening copy
    National Geographic Channel
    National Geographic Channel

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