The Mourning Hills

The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center is once again teaming up with New Orleans Film Society by sponsoring a feature film screening as part of the annual New Orleans Film Festival. This exciting event will include the film screening of “The Mourning Hills” followed by an on-stage Q & A with the filmmakers and psychoanalysts from NOBPC. NOBPC will also host a reception for its members and attendees immediately following the screening.

Film Synopsis

Mattie and Kate are sisters. They’re also orphans. Their mother died in a tragic accident, and their father took his own life shortly after that. Known as ‘The Mourning Hills,’ the wilderness where their father committed suicide has long been known as a place where people pilgrimage to end it all. Once Mattie convinces Kate to run away with her, they decide that the best place to hide out is the very place where their father made them orphans. It is here where they learn to grieve by growing up too fast.     

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