Mother
Bulgaria, 2022, 111 min
Director: Zornitsa Sophia
Script: Zornitsa Sophia, Miglena Dimova
D.O.P.: Krum Rodriguez
Producer: MQ Pictures – Zornitsa Sophia
Awards: Warsaw International Film Festival – Competition, Cottbus International Film Festival – in competition, Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad” – in Competition, Golden Rose Film Festival – Competition, Aswan International Female Festival – Competition; Sofia Film Festival – Balkan Competition
Language: Bulgarian, EN Subtitles
Rights: Worldwide Pay TV, Free TV, VOD, SVOD, DVD
Rights Holder / Agent: Concept Studio
Plot
Elena is an inspired theater director who loses her ability to have children at the age of 32. Trying therapies to get pregnant and failing to convince her husband Leon, 50, to stay with her in Bulgaria and to keep trying, Elena develops a successful life-transforming theater program for orphans. She is invited to do the same in Kenya, where the number of orphans is massive at the same time, when Leon proposes her to start ‘in vitro’ with donated egg cells.
Elena has to choose between her dream of having a child of her own and helping thousands of orphans to start dreaming. Finding her own way, Elena will redefine the word “mother”. Inspired by a true story.