Women are more likely than men to experience housing insecurity. Women and children, particularly women of color and Aboriginal women, are the fastest growing group using shelters in Canada.

As part of its summer cinema program, the NFB Mediatheque will screen Helene Klodawsky’s powerful and improvised alternative drama Family Motel, an original narrative of one woman’s struggle to protect her family, from August 7 to 12.

About the film

“A hard-working Somalian immigrant and her teenage girls fall victim to high rents and payments to other family members back home and slip through the Ottawa social safety net into homelessness. This gripping NFB-Instinct Films co-production resurrects the powerful fiction/documentary tradition of alternative drama and introduces the amazing non-actor family of Nargis Jibril and daughters Asha and Sagal.”
- John Griffin, Montreal Gazette

Showings

Thursday, August 7 at 7 PM
Friday, August 8 at 7 PM
Saturday, August 9 at 3 PM
Sunday, August 10 at 1 PM
Tuesday, August 12 at 7 PM

To learn more about Family Motel, visit:
www.nfb.ca/familymotel

To download a copy of the movie’s press release, click here:
Press Release