A Want in Her

Evan Bower

The Bus Stop Theatre Co-operative

Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival 2025

The 19th annual Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival returns with a celebration of local and international arthouse films from May 28–31, 2025, at the Bus Stop Theatre.

A Want in Her, the debut feature documentary by Irish artist Myrid Carten, is a fierce, loving family portrait and a cathartic admittance of powerlessness.A Want in Her centres on Carten’s relationship with her mother, Nuala, and Nuala’s battles with addiction and mental illness, the combination of which often lead to disappearance and devastation.We meet Nuala as she seeks refuge with her family in a house contested by her feuding brothers, beginning another period of recovery. Familial obligation, the resulting guilt and off-setting of it, and family patterns of mental illness, addiction and avoidance are evocative subjects that Carten expertly explores through thoughtful interviews and revealing home video footage. A Want in Her is a triumphant personal narrative and a refreshing, comforting acknowledgment of the pains and frustrations of loving family we can’t save. —Rebecca Falvey

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