MOTHERS

By Milcho MANCHEVSKI

CINÉ-SUD PROMOTION - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2010

A multi-narrative drama set in breathtaking rural and claustrophobic urban Macedonia, MOTHERS features three seemingly unconnected stories dealing with guilt and loneliness, crime and punishment.

Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2011
Panorama
    • Year of production
    • 2010
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • NORTH MACEDONIA, BULGARIA, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • Other, ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 120 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Milcho MANCHEVSKI
    • Writer(s)
    • Milcho MANCHEVSKI
    • Producer(s)
    • Christina KALLAS (Banana Films), Thierry LENOUVEL (Ciné-Sud Promotion), Methodius PETRIKOV (Prod. bulgare)
    • Synopsis
    • Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. They condemn an innocent man.
      Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have stopped talking to each other many years ago.
      Retired cleaning women are found raped and strangled in a small town. The DNA leads to a journalist who was reporting on the murders. Did he kill by night, write by day ? Three days after his arrest, he is found in his cell, his head in a bucket of water. Was it suicide or murder ?
      Every story is true.
    • Partners & financing
    • Macedonian Film Fund, National Film Center of Bulgaria, Fonds Sud
    • Production schedule
    • Completed in July 2010
    • Beginning of shooting
    • Feb 01, 2010