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“Homesick” began a portrait of longing for something that can never return. It is about home - and New York became mine.

I am beyond happy to have found such a perfect home for this film. Thank you @tribeca
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Poster by @happy_graphic_ taken in Sheepshead Bay by @bedj

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"Homesick" came from my own complicated relationship with the idea of home. I was born in Moscow and have lived in New York for more than a decade. At some point, New York became my home, while the place where I was born became somewhere I could no longer return to in the same way.

I became interested in that contradiction: that you can leave a country, even escape it, and still miss something about it. Homesickness doesn’t necessarily mean you want to go back. Sometimes you’re homesick for a place that doesn’t exist anymore, or maybe never existed in the way you remember it.

Jenia came out of that feeling, and out of conversations with Russian immigrants around me. Brighton Beach felt like the natural place for her story. It’s such a strange pocket of New York: you can walk into a grocery store, hear Russian everywhere, see food and objects you grew up with, and for a moment feel like you never left. Then you step outside, and you’re back in New York.

While making this film, I discovered that homesickness can be incredibly contradictory. You can miss something you don’t want anymore. You can grieve a home that no longer exists. And you can build a new home without completely resolving your relationship with the old one.

A lot of the film came out of conversations with immigrants in New York, especially conversations about what “home” means once returning is no longer really an option. I was interested in how casually people can move between anger, guilt, nostalgia, and completely mundane things in the same conversation, like where to get the right kind of pelmeni (dumplings). I wanted the film to have that same instability.

@ana.a.alpizar is a filmmaker and editor whose films I find breathtaking: beautiful, funny, and deeply sad, often all at the same time. I really admire the sensitivity with which she observes people and finds poetry in seemingly ordinary moments.

@antonvk__ is a filmmaker and producer with a rare ability to make the impossible possible on set. He’s the kind of producer who doesn’t respond to an ambitious idea by explaining why it can’t be done; he starts figuring out how to do it.

–Nadia Bedj // @bedj by @bedj

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19 days ago

On our way to @diarysounds album release party ⚡️⚡️⚡️ taken in New York City by @bedj

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a month ago

So happy to share our new music video for @diarysounds 🎶
“Drive It” follows a man moving through New York City with a body he can no longer control. Starring incredible @takalayhamill and @lillyfridlyand who also did movement direction 🕺

Music @diarysounds @kaninerecords
Written and directed by yours truly
Produced by @owainastles
Cinematography @mickbongiovi
Edited by me and @owainastles
Color Grade @scandaled_eggs
Styling @heatherrosenthal
Production Coordinator @findingmoha

Thanks to our amazing team and everyone who made it happen.
Vevo link in bio🏃 taken in New York City by @bedj

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2 months ago

Wow, what an incredible week 💙🧡💙🧡💙

Thank you @tribeca for such a warm and welcoming premiere of Homesick. It has been an honor to screen alongside so many talented filmmakers and to share this film with a New York audience. “NY Making It Here” ❤️

Forever grateful to our amazing cast, crew, friends, and family who made this possible.

And of course - go Knicks! 🏀💙🧡 taken in Tribeca, New York City by @bedj

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4 months ago

I’m so thrilled to share that my short film HOMESICK is heading to Tribeca Festival as part of the New York Shorts program! Honored to be in such incredible company. Please join us June 3-14 in New York @tribeca ❤️

Homesick is a personal story about immigration and memories of a home that no longer exists. I feel torn apart, and making films is the only way through.

Enormous gratitude to @nyugradfilm and my wonderful cast and crew. Liza @lizayank, I love you. Thank you @innayesilevskaya @__elyjelly__ & Luan Taveras for your talent.

Produced by @antonvk__ @varrya___
Co-producer @imjessli
Creative producer @fredgynoel
Cinematographer @igorkropotov
Production design @ogrigore
Costume design @zzzalena
Editor @mia.hildebrand @ana.a.alpizar
Sound design @stanislav.paushev
Music @96kbpsquality
AD @owainastles
Art @mayracoralx @cinthyaft
Makeup @oh_you_francey
Casting advisors @oriana.sy.ng @25kblack
Camera team @hussein1147 @lena_abraha @solatory.nyu @regen.ruben
Production sound @mickbongiovi @jforjunayd
Sound editor @mityakru
Color grading @bryce.saucier
Key art @happy_graphic_
Graphic design @lubovinthecity
Big love @fridlyand and my family who is my home 🏡💗 taken in Tribeca, New York City by @bedj

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6 months ago

Summer moments 🌤️ taken in New York by @bedj

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a year ago

Body study 🎞️ 35mm archives taken in New York, New York by @bedj

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a year ago

Life 🌿 with my lovely @rebeccamzengicorey @waltmzengicorey and Lei 💚 taken in Prospect Park by @bedj

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2 years ago

Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair taken in San Francisco, California by @bedj

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2 years ago

‘March 48th’ directed by Nadia Bedj @bedj

‘March 48th’ is a dystopian, women-driven love story shot on 16mm film. The film is a visual essay on environmental and technological shifts and their impact on humanity, as well as an exploration of love and birth.

Supported by Kodak, March 48th embraces the raw, tactile quality of film to contrast the sterile, digitised world it portrays, reinforcing its themes of nature and resistance.

Playing now on girlsinfilm.net 📡

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Director: Nadia Bedj @bedj
Featuring: Sofia Tess @sofiatesmenitskaya, Jane R, Lea Rain
DP: Walt Mzengi Corey
Producer: Devin Carey @devawn
Associate Producer: Bob Getty @don_cutie69
Production Coordinator: Natalia Almonte @palmon
Production Design: Rebecca Mzengi Corey @rebeccamzengicorey
Key Hair and Makeup Artist: Sofi Chernyak @sofi_nyc
Composer: Zu Dzu @zu_dzu
Sound Design: Stanislav Paushev @stanislav.paushev
Graphic Design: Liubov Rybakova @lubovinthecity
Special thanks: Kodak @kodak_shootfilm by @bedj

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a year ago

Kevin Abstract and 070 Shake for @loewe
Love the MiniDV 📹
Ty @emmanuelleperrin 🩶 taken in New York City by @bedj

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2 years ago