Nanitic is a 2022 Canadian short drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Carol Nguyen.
[4] It was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 25th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2023.
[5] The title of the short film comes from nanitics, which are the first generation of worker ants and shoulder the responsibility in taking care of the colony.
Vietnamese-Canadian cousins Trang and Mai regularly visit their terminally ill grandmother's house, where they play and secretly keep an ant colony in jars hidden in their Aunt Út's closet.
Út herself gets easily annoyed whenever her nieces get into trouble as she is stressed from tending to her mother, who no longer responds and now lies in bed every day in the living room and has a care worker.