Description

Set in Montréal, Clay Footed Giants is a tragicomic meditation on parenthood, masculinity, and violence. Being a parent is so much harder than Pat ever imagined. While his partner Ester is away on a work trip. Pat loses his temper and transforms into a grizzly bear of a father, scaring his children and compounding his guilt. His friend Mathieu s stay-at-home-dad parenting advice is of no help, and only emphasizes Mathieu s professional shortcomings. The two men soon realize their children are mirrors reflecting old wounds that might never heal.
Meanwhile, an unexpected package arrives from Pat s Estranged father containing letters, photos and a mysterious medal from his time as a soldier in Vietnam, and it propels Pat s obsessive quest to understand his family s dark past. As Pat plunges deeper into his research, he and his family reach their breaking point. With help from Mathieu and Pat s mom. Pat digs down to the roots of their family s intergenerational trauma and learns how to heal himself in the process Growth is possible, but so is oblivion. Eventually, the light pours in.