SEMRET

By Caterina MONA

CINÉDOKKÉ SAGL - as PROD

First film - Completed 2022


Festivals
& Awards

Locarno 2022
Piazza Grande
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • First film, Social issues, Drama
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND
    • Languages
    • GERMAN, SWISS-GERMAN, Other
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Caterina MONA
    • Writer(s)
    • Caterina MONA
    • Producer(s)
    • Michela PINI (CINÉDOKKÉ SAGL), Pascal TRÄCHSLIN (CINEWORX FILMPRODUKTION GMBH)
    • 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 programme. 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 who is also an Eritrean refugee, she is finally able to face the tragic memories of her escape.