SEMRET

By Caterina MONA

PLUTO FILM DISTRIBUTION NETWORK GMBH - as SALES World

Drama - Completed 2022

Semret, an Eritrean refugee working at a hospital in Switzerland, needs to revisit her traumatic past in order not to lose the strong bond with her daughter.

Festivals
& Awards

Ventana Sur 2022
European Screenings
Locarno 2022
Piazza Grande - World Premiere
Cinema Attraverso i Grandi Festival 2022
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2022
Terraviva FF 2023
Solidarity HRFF 2023
London Migration FF 2023
IFF Kerala 2023
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama, Female director
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND
    • Languages
    • SWISS-GERMAN, Other
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Caterina MONA
    • Writer(s)
    • Caterina MONA
    • Producer(s)
    • Michela PINI (Cinédokké), Pascal TRÄCHSLIN (Cineworx Filmproduktion Basel)
    • Synopsis
    • Semret lives a modest and quite isolated life in Zurich with her teenage daughter Joe. She works at a hospital and is applying to a midwife training program. When Joe starts to ask about her own roots from Eritrea, Semret can no longer repress her past and has to confront her traumas. With the help of Yemane, a new hospital employee that is also an Eritrean refugee, she is finally able to face the tragic memories of her escape.