Home Free – Canadian Film Fest 2025
March 24 to March 29, 2025
Content Advisory: Rape and Sexual Assault, Child abuse/pedophilia, Suicide, Terminal Illness
FILM FESTIVAL
Canadian Film Fest 2025
Three estranged sisters come home after it is announced that their father has terminal cancer in Home Free. Herb Homur (Art Hindle) and his wife Jill (Jill Frappier), decide to invite their three adult daughters, Rain (Michelle Nolden), Ivy (Tara Spencer-Nairn), and Daisy (Natalie Brown), home for the weekend, despite the sisters being estranged from each other for many years. Herb drops the bombshell that he has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and that he has accepted his imminent death. However, before he goes, he wants to use this weekend to try and bring the family together.
Home Free Synopsis
Veteran independent Canadian producer Avi Federgreen (Lifechanger) makes the move into the director’s chair with the family drama Home Free. Co-written by Federgreen and Reese Eveneshen (For the Sake of Vicious), Home Free stars Michelle Nolden (She Never Died), Tara Spencer-Nairn (Humane), and Natalie Brown (Ashgrove, The Breach) as the three sisters Rain, a doctor, Ivy, a taxidermist, and Daisy, an erotic fiction author, who have been estranged from each other for the past two decades. However, they are forced to reconcile when their father Herb, played by the legendary Art Hindle (Robbery), announces to them that he is dying of cancer. The family begin to put together a time capsule full of their memories and buried secrets.
My Thoughts on Home Free
For his feature film directorial debut, Avi Federgreen has made a heartwrenching family drama with Home Free. While this is a somewhat surprising direction, given how both Federgreen and co-wriiter Reese Eveneshen are known predominantly for their genre-film work, Home Free is still a very affective tearjerker, which not only deals with a family member dying of cancer, but also collective family trauma, including an unresolved childhood sexual assault by one of the sisters. Ultimately, Home Free is a must-watch film, though it should be warned that there won’t be a dry eye in the house when the film is over.
Trailer for Home Free – Canadian Film Fest 2025
