Winter Buoy

Winter Buoy is Cannes-awarded Frida Kempff’s first feature documentary, a poetic and intimate story that portrays life in all its fragility. It is a film about trust and the courage to never stop hoping.

In icy mid-winter Toronto, a group of pregnant women desperately strive to regain control of their lives. They have insurmountable forces against them: homelessness, drug addiction, violent relationships. But following these particular individuals are the attentive eyes of their guardian angels, the social workers of a unique public health initiative. If these expectant mothers can only manage to break free of the vicious cycles dogging their steps, they have a chance to keep their newborns.

About the filmmaker 

Frida Kempff is a Swedish documentary filmmaker who started working with television and film in the late 90s, producing and directing several television and documentary productions. She graduated from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2006. Her short documentary Bathing Micky won the Jury Prize in the Official Selection in Cannes in 2010.