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MY DEAR MOTHER

RÁHKKIS EADNAN

By Paul-Anders SIMMA

SAFI - as PROD

Social issues - Completed 2020

She is nine years when she discovers that she is not an orphan.

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Thessaloniki IFF 2019

Film Market Films

Pärnu int film festival 2020

Best doc

Queen Palm International Film Festival 2020

best doc

17th Annual ReelHeART International Film 2020

main doc award

Interdoc 2020

Best Doc

Montreal Independent Film Festival 2021

feature doc award

Florence Film Awards 2021

Best doc

Black Hills film festival 2021

Best Doc

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- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Social issues, Western, Documentary
- Countries
- FINLAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN
- Languages
- ENGLISH, RUSSIAN
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Duration
- 96 mn
- Director(s)
- Paul-Anders SIMMA
- Synopsis
- Tasha is a eleven-year-old Lapp girl. She is an inmate of a Russian orphanage, even when she is not an orphan.
  Tasha believes that her mother is dead and that her father is in jail for life. To survive she has found a Russian
  stepmother at the orphanage. One day her biological mother suddenly calls her. Tasha is chocked since the
  authorities had declared her mother dead by a drug overdose several years ago. Her mother claims that she is
  now drug free. Tasha has mixed feelings for this new found “mother”. She is longing to have a mother of her
  own, but still she is afraid.
  Tasha’s two mothers are both sympathetic and wise women. They are very different in character, but are
  united by a common goal. Both of them want to do their utmost to enable Tasha to be happy. Her
  biological mother, Maria, is struggling to get her family back. Tasha’s Russian adoptive mother, Nadia, wants
  to give her a safe Russian childhood.
  At the end of the film, Tasha reaches the most difficult crossroads of her life. She has to make a decision
  that will have an enormous impact on the rest of her life. Will she become a Sami by choosing to live with
  her biological mother, or should she become a Russian by choosing a life with the Russian foster mother
  appointed by the orphanage?
  In the background of Tasha’s fate lurks the greater global narrative about the “stolen generations”. Children
  belonging to different indigenous peoples all over the world were “stolen” and placed in orphanages hoping
  that they might be assimilated into the majority population. In North America and Australia the “stolen
  children” constitute a relatively large population group. For years the authorities in the English-speaking
  former colonies have been devoting a great deal of effort to finding ways to achieve reconciliation. In
  Europe the “stolen generations” still remain silent, in spite of the fact that many parents belonging to
  indigenous peoples in that continent too were regarded as being incapable of looking after their own
  children, because they were considered to be members of an inferior race.

MY DEAR MOTHER

RÁHKKIS EADNAN

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