My Father Is My Mother's Brother Trailer (2018)

Trailer for My Father Is My Mother's Brother.

Bohemian singer Tolik lays down provocative electro-pop tracks in his sparse loft while single-parenting his five-year-old niece, Katya. He takes food and money to his mentally ill sister, Anya, as often as her obsessive behaviours allow, and faithfully reads Katya her bedtime stories. Beautifully rendered through intimate camerawork, the pseudo-dad's bond with each of his charges is loving and protective. He's Katya's sole source of stability, Anya's only connection to reality and the lone conduit for their mother-daughter relationship to develop. But Tolik's art is based on personal freedom and sexual openness, not homework and doctor's appointments. Can Tolik be a father and still be himself? When the child naturally asks, "Dad, don't you want to live with Mom at all?" what's the right answer for any of them? Honest, moving and tender, the film tells a most modern family story.