What place in your life carries the most memories? For the family of director Lewis Bennett, it is unquestionably the now abandoned farm in Saskatchewan where his mother and aunt grew up. But even though nobody has lived there for decades, the family has held on to the land, whether out of nostalgia or in the unlikely hope that a family member will move back to take up the farming life again. In “Holding On to the Farm,†Bennett’s beautiful new Op-Doc, we float through and around the farm and the Canadian prairie that surrounds it, while voices of the family remember what life was like there — and why it still matters.
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