I Want to Go Home

Je veux rentrer chez moi

Mégan Dupont
2025 | 1 min
3D + collage animation
English

This deeply personal and visually experimental short film explores the disorienting experience of sudden, unexplained vision loss. Using layers of distortion and clarity, and blending medical chaos with childhood memories, it weaves a haunting tapestry of fear and beauty. The moment of rediscovery in the film reveals all the preciousness of a sense we take for granted.

Produced as part of the 15^th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse mentorship.

Logline

A poetic journey through darkness, memory and the fragile miracle of vision.

Director's Statement

This film is my way of processing a time filled with fear, confusion and unanswered questions about my vision. Through chaotic visuals and quiet moments of beauty, I wanted to share that journey and offer a different perspective on something we often take for granted.

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Credits

Written, Directed and Animated by
Scénario, réalisation et animation
Mégan Dupont

Editor
Montage
Jesse Riviere

Sound and Music
Conception sonore et musique
Vid Cousins

Mentoring Director
Mentorat de réalisation
Lillian Chan

Associate Producer
Production déléguée
Fred Casia

Technical Director
Direction technique
Mathieu Tremblay

Technical Support – Animation
Soutien technique à l’animation
Alexandre Roy

Technical Coordinator
Coordination technique
Luc Binette

Titles
Titres
Cynthia Ouellet

Online Edit
Montage en ligne
Luca Di Gioacchino

Voice
Voix
Marc Côté

Musicians
Musique, interprétation
Sarah Pagé
Vid Cousins

Foley
Bruitage
Karla Baumgardner

Recording
Enregistrement
Geoffrey Mitchell
Luc Léger

Mix
Mixage
Isabelle Lussier

Administration
Karine Desmeules

Senior Production Coordinator
Coordination de la production
Dominique Forget

Marketing
Mise en marché
Judith Lessard-Bérubé
Marion Duhaime-Morissette
Emilie Ryan

Publicist
Attachée de presse
Nadine Viau

Consultation
Donald McWilliams

Producer
Production
Maral Mohammadian

Executive Producer
Production exécutive
Christine Noël

Archives
NFB Archives
Family archives
Adobe Stock
Anatomy of the human eye, 17th century. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Media Relations

Nadine Viau
NFB Publicist – Montreal
C.: 514-458-9745
n.viau@nfb.ca

About the Hothouse program

Hothouse is a mentorship program for emerging Canadian animation filmmakers. It was created in 2003 by NFB Animation Studio Producer Michael Fukushima and Executive Producer David Verrall to nurture new talent. Participants work alongside industry leaders, gaining real-world experience.

They have only 12 weeks to craft an original one-minute film. But it’s not just about speed. It’s about helping the next generation of storytellers find inventive ways of using animation while maintaining the creative and technical hallmarks of NFB animation.

Hothouse is not a funding program, nor is it a school. It is a mentorship in real-world animation filmmaking, with the NFB serving as both producer and distributor.

About the NFB

For more than 80 years, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has produced, distributed and preserved those stories, which now form a vast audiovisual collection—an important part of our cultural heritage that represents all Canadians.

To tell these stories, the NFB works with filmmakers of all ages and backgrounds, from across the country. It harnesses their creativity to produce relevant and groundbreaking content for curious, engaged and diverse audiences. The NFB also collaborates with industry experts to foster innovation in every aspect of storytelling, from formats to distribution models.

Every year, another 50 or so powerful new animated and documentary films are added to the NFB’s extensive collection of more than 14,000 titles, half of which are available to watch for free on nfb.ca.

Through its mandate, its stature and its productions, the NFB contributes to Canada’s cultural identity and is helping to build the Canada of tomorrow.