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Past event
29.4 Tue
2025
From 9:30 PM
To 11:15 PM (6.5)
At
Wolf Kino
Berlin

(Y)our Mother (96')*

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ALFILM Festival - Berlin ALFILM Festival - Berlin
(Y)our motherأمك، أمي    

Documentary, director: Samira El Mouzghibati, Belgium/France, 2024, 96 min, AR/FR/Tarifit, with EN st.

Like a stranger in one's own family: Filmmaker Samira El Mouzghibati shares a close bond with her four sisters. However, the relationship the daughters have with their mother, shaped by anger, helplessness, and disappointment, is distant and cold. Raised in Belgium, El Mouzghibati embarks on a journey to Morocco with her mother, visiting her village of origin in the Rif mountains, in an attempt to improve this connection. Infused with home video footage and old family photos, the result is a film about toxic family dynamics, the struggle with tradition and the fight for a self-determined life, with a complex and complicated mother at its center. 

(Y)our Mother is El Mouzghibati’s debut feature, premiering in 2024 at Visions du Réel, where it was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize.

Followed by a film talk with Samira El Mouzghibati. 

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ALFILM Festival - Berlin

ALFILM Festival - Berlin

16th ALFILM - Arab Film Festival Berlin Taking place between the 23rd - 30th of April 2025  at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, City Kino Wedding, Kino in der KulturBrauerei, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Wolf Kino, Spore Initiative and Gretchen, the 16th edition of ALFILM features a wide selection of feature films, documentaries, and short films, while masterclasses, panel discussions, talks, special screenings, and a closing party round off the varied programme. As in previous years, the festival promises audiences a cinematic experience of artistic merit and relevance to timely issues across two program sections. ALFILM Selection highlights the richness of the contemporary Arab cinema landscape with film productions from the past two years. In ALFILM Spotlight Canceled Futures, Endless Pasts: Speculative Fiction on and Archival Subversions of the (Post)colonial Condition, the genre of speculative fiction and the subversive use of the archive are at the centre of an artistic examination of the (post)colonial entanglements of the Arab region. Complete programme at https://alfilm.berlin/.

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