Downstream

A girl who lost her biological mother in a tragic event is now living with an adoptive mother. As the girl struggles to cope with her trauma and feels out of place in her new home, the adoptive mother tries to get closer to her, eventually revealing that she too has experienced a similar trauma...   
Downstream, the mother was carried away in the water...   
Downstream, trauma is passed from generation to generation...   
Downstream, love is passed from generation to generation…

 

Credits

• Caroline Vu, librettist
• Amichaï Ben Shalev, composer
• Jesse Aidyn Dugas, filmmaker
• Stefania Skoryna, choreographer
• Marion Germain and Maëlig Querré, singers
• Jérémie Arsenault, clarinetist
• Darko Dimitrijevic, accordionist
• Gordon Giang, cellist