No Subject

This film-within-a-film blends the fictional story of a zookeeper's attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, the filmmaker's actual correspondence with his sibling on a long-held family silence and an allegory about a depressed alligator that refuses to resurface. A dreamy experiment in genre-bending, (No Subject) creates an environment where intent and end result can dialogue. (Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival)