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(Y)OUR MOTHER
LES MIENNES

• Director: Samira El Mouzghibati
• BELGIUM, FRANCE / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 97’ / French, Arabic, Riffian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Samira El Mouzghibati
• Director of Photography: Victoire Bonin
• Editing: Lenka Fillnerova
• Music: Yannick Dupont
• Producer: Sébastien Andres, Alice Lemaire, Vincent Metzinger, Steven Dhoedt
• Production Co.: Michigan Films
• World Sales: Hors du Bocal

2024 Visions du Réel FIPRESCI Prize, Zonta Award
2024 Brussels Best Editing

Samira El Mouzghibati tells us with great honesty in her first documentary feature, how, years after her birth, she met her mother again. She emotionally captures how a mother is not born a mother, but becomes one. (Y)our Mother deals gently and consciously with how silences create distance between these sisters and their mother. Born in Belgium to parents from the Rif region of Morocco, Samira El Mouzghibati in her first documentary delicately weaves personal and universal narratives while reconnecting with her roots. ’As the youngest among my five sisters, I am aware that I carry a painful legacy from their past. In response to a tragic incident that was kept quiet, my sisters formed a clan with a tight-knit bond from which our mother was excluded. Thus, when we talked about her we said "your mother", as if she was no longer ours. For the very first time, we hear what she has to say.’

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.