Looking Like My Mother

Switzerland, April 2016
FILM, Documentary, 78 min.

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directed by: Dominique Margot
Written by: Dominique Margot
Status: In distribution

The film follows the filmmaker's journey as a daughter of a mother who suffered from depression and confronts her fear of inheriting the disease. It describes her helplessness as a child, her anger as a teenager and her eventual understanding of the courage it took for her mother to even carry on breathing. The film traces the individual experience, sharing the emptiness and the eventual discovery of a sense of meaning in life. An audiovisually playful film about complex family relationships and the unexpected reconciliation that occurs when her mother dies.

credits

World Premiere: April 2016
Original Version: French, English, Swiss-German, German (french/english/german subtitles), colour and b/w, DCP, 78 min.
ISAN: 0000-0003-F5B2-0000-6-0000-0000-J
Production: maximage, SRG SSR
Producer: Brigitte Hofer, Cornelia Seitler
directed by: Dominique Margot
Written by: Dominique Margot
Cinematography: Simon Guy Fässler
Editing: Christof Schertenleib
Sound Editing: Peter Bräker
Sound Design: Peter Bräker
Re-Recording Mix: Jacques Kieffer
Music: Peter Bräker
Location Sound Mix: Jacques Kieffer
Compositing: Ueli Nüesch
Production Design: Doris Berger
Special Effects: Susanne Hofer
Lighting Design: Ernst Brunner, Sandro Hofstetter
Costumes: Regula Marthaler
Casting: Christian Casper

World Sales / World Rights

World Rights: maximage

Worldwide Distribution

Switzerland: Look Now! Distribution
Release date: 29.09.2016

Awards

(a selection)

Nyon, Visions du Réel, Mention spéciale du Jury interreligieux 2016 (Winner)

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