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THE INHERITORS

LES HÉRITIERS

By Serge-Olivier RONDEAU

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Documentary - Completed 2025

Alongside Canada’s largest landfill, a colony of ring-billed gulls settles in for the breeding season. The Inheritors follows these unwanted creatures, who flourish within a hostile ecosystem where peril comes in many forms—flesh, feathers and metal.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- FRENCH-CANADIAN
- Duration
- 79 mn
- Director(s)
- Serge-Olivier RONDEAU
- Synopsis
- The Inheritors offers an intimately arresting observation of the daily life of a colony of ring-billed gulls which nest alongside Canada’s largest landfill to feed their young. Alternating between the perspectives of prey and predator, we follow these unwanted creatures through a full breeding season as they become the targets of invasive data collection, then of harsh deterrence measures using the age-old art of falconry. With sound and cinematography that lets the birds speak for themselves, The Inheritors is a sensory experience which invites us to contemplate new ways of living and dying on a planet haunted by mass consumption and pollution. A foretelling of the ecologies of our future.