‘One Another’ screening

The feature-length documentary “One Another” was filmed heavily in Lansing by an Everett High School graduate, Amber Love. After making its world premiere at the South by Southwest film festival in March, it will have its local premiere this weekend in Grand Ledge.

Love, as well as some of the subjects of the film, will be on hand for a Q&A, moderated by Ingham County Commissioner Rachel Willis.

The film is an exploration of “the life-saving nature of close friendships,” like Love experienced growing up. It follows three different friendships over three years through uncertainty, heartaches and attempts to reconnect. A cross-country move, a mental health crisis and a shift into empty nesting have forced the subjects to reevaluate the support they need.

Love’s mother, Lorri, is the latest in a long line of single mothers living in a trailer park alongside her friend Lisa Parsons, who helped raise Love. Navigating the passage of time and changes in their relationship, Lorri and Lisa work toward repairing their decades-long connection. There’s also Joe Joseph, who moves to the San Francisco Bay Area to be closer to its queer community but leaves behind an identity-defining friendship. And then there’s Giorgia Harvey, who returns to her hometown to heal bruised friendships that need to be confronted head-on.

“By growing up with friends playing roles usually reserved for romantic partners or family, I inherited a sense of freedom and possibility rooted in those relationships,” Love said.

Critics have called the film, Love’s feature directorial debut, “a quietly moving exploration of friendship, intimacy, and the ways our closest relationships evolve over time” (Screen Zealots) and “the definition of human connection” (Reel News Daily).