Mother

Original Title: Mother

Country

Bulgaria

Director

Zornitsa Sophia

Year

2022

Run Time

117 min

Genre

Drama

Maturity Rating

A

Awards/Main Selection

Golden Rose Film Festival | International Film Festival of India | 20th European Film Festival “EU Film Days”

Synopsis

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.