Hot Docs

Winner of the Hot Docs 2003 Best Canadian Documentary, Bunny and Leona follows two sisters as they live apart for the first time in 30 years. As Bunny Drudge, 67, and Leona McLeod, 72, abruptly move into separate nursing homes, their families’ expectations of who will thrive are flipped upside down as the sisters’ new found liberation brings out character traits they never knew they had. As they begin to navigate new relationships and start again on their own, we see a portrait of two elderly women going through stages of growth many people experience in their younger years. Filmed over a turbulent year as the two sisters try to adapt to their new surroundings and uncover the first sense of independence they’ve ever had as individuals, Bunny and Leona is a beautiful portrait of old age, family and the transitions we make in life. Charlotte Cook

Media Coverage

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