Looking Like My Mother

Looking Like My Mother

78 mins | Documentary | April 16, 2016

LOOKING LIKE MY MOTHER is a film about family relationships and personal destiny, about realizing one's own potential and one's limitations. It traces the individual experience, showing the emptiness one can feel as well as the discovery of a sense of meaning in life. It is a very personal and courageous film that doesn’t search for scientific explanations but instead uses documentary and fictional material to weave an intimate biography. This combination of perception and memory suggests a deep reconciliation and allows tender feelings of a mother’s love to emerge.

Looking Like My Mother

78 mins | Documentary | April 16, 2016

Looking Like My Mother
LOOKING LIKE MY MOTHER is a film about family relationships and personal destiny, about realizing one's own potential and one's limitations. It traces the individual experience, showing the emptiness one can feel as well as the discovery of a sense of meaning in life. It is a very personal and courageous film that doesn’t search for scientific explanations but instead uses documentary and fictional material to weave an intimate biography. This combination of perception and memory suggests a deep reconciliation and allows tender feelings of a mother’s love to emerge.
Producers
Original title Looking Like My Mother
Directors Dominique Margot
Writers Dominique Margot

Cast

Heidi Diggelmann

as Old Mother

Ilaria Flego

as Child

Miro Svercel

as Father

Yvonne Vonlanthen

as Young Mother