The Rest of Us

Directed By Aisling Chin-Yee

Two mother-daughter duos must contend with their grief and complicated relationships with one another when the person who connects them dies.

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The film is about a combative teenage daughter (Sophie Nélisse) and her mother (Heather Graham) who invites her ex-husband’s wife and daughter (Jodi Balfour and Abigail Pniowsky) to live with them after the husband dies and they’ve got nowhere to go. As the film progresses, a number of secrets come to light and each person’s life is impacted by these new relationships.

Aisling Chin-Yee is an award-winning producer, writer, and director based in Montreal, Canada, and Los Angeles, California. In 2024, she was awarded the Trailblazer Award by the Reel World Film Festival. She won the Directors Guild of Canada award for directorial achievement in a mini-series for the CBC series Plan B, starring Patrick J Adams in 2023. In 2021, Aisling was celebrated as one of DOC NYC and HBO Documentary’s 40 Under 40. New Yorker Magazine hailed Aisling’s latest film as “a genre unto itself” and one of the magazine’s Best Movies of 2021. She also won the DGC Award for Best Editing in Documentary in 2021. She was named one of Canada’s Rising Film Stars by Now Magazine in 2019 and by The Montreal Gazette in 2020, after her debut feature film, The Rest of Us, premiered at TIFF19.  Aisling also produced critically acclaimed films such as Rhymes for Young Ghouls, The Saver, and Last Woman Standing.