107 Mothers

Venice 2021
Best Screenplay
IFF 2021
Industry Selects
San Sebastian IFF
Official Selection
Les Arcs 2021
Best Film
Chicago 2021
Best Director

107 Mothers

A Film by Peter Kerekes

2021 - Slovakia - Documentary/Drama - 1.85 - 90 min.

OSCARS 2022: Official Submission

Languages: Ukrainian , Russian
Produced by Katarina Tomkova & Peter Kerekes

Lesya has committed a crime of passion which brings her a seven-year sentence in one of Odessa’s women’s correctional facilities. She has just given birth to her first child, and now she is entering a world populated only by women: inmates, nurses and wardens, women of all ages, wives and widows, daughters, sisters, pregnant women, and women with children too. If not for the color of the uniform, it would sometimes be hard to tell who is who.

In Collection:
Venice 2021
Best Screenplay
IFF 2021
Industry Selects
San Sebastian IFF
Official Selection
Les Arcs 2021
Best Film
Chicago 2021
Best Director
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