Aberdeen | TIFF 2024 | Review by: Stefano Bove
In their feature directorial debuts, Ryan Cooper and Eva Thomas put everything out there in this emotional tale for us to feel he struggles of an indigenous woman trying to navigate life in modern Canada. Aberdeen,( Gail Maurice) has struggled her whole life between having absentee parents and losing her home to environmental issues. Now homeless, we learn that history has repeated itself as she fights to have a relationship with her daughter and has lost her grandchildren to the foster system. The system is constantly pushing Aberdeen down and she feels like she can never get ahead. On top of all her life struggles, she hits rock bottom yet again as she loses her ID and is rendered powerless to the point that even her status is questioned. The simple task of replacing a lost ID is something that every Canadian goes through but Aberdeen not trusting the system and constantly in defence mode, makes the task impossible. The contrasting interactions between the systems Government office
