Äidin toive

Oct 16 2015 PG 1h 25m
Biography, Documentary, Family

An astronaut sends her young son a video message from outer space. In Mexico, a stripper dances night after night to keep a roof over her child’s head. In Canada, a woman becomes a mother for the first time after enduring seven miscarriages. Finnish filmmaker Joonas Berghäll has travelled to South African settlements, Nepalese terraced fields and Russia’s metropolis Moscow to investigate an unshakable and almost magical connection: the bond between mother and child. MOTHER‘S WISH portrays 10 women from the most varied of cultural and social backgrounds who all tell of the beauty and difficulty of being a mother. These are not only stories of love and pride – but also of disappointed hopes and the most precarious of life circumstances. Above all else, however, the protagonists tell of their determination – regardless of their current living conditions – to fight for a better future.

Plot

Ten stories seen and told by women from different parts of the world, connected by the theme of motherhood.

Written by

Joonas Berghäll, Anna Nykyri, Timo Vierimaa

Directed by

Joonas Berghäll

Cast

Joonas Berghäll, Karen L. Nyberg

Crew

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Production Countries

Kenya, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Mexico

Production Companies

House of Real, Mantaray Film, Oktober

Languages

Français, English, Español, , , Português, suomi

Awards

2 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
116
Average Rating
6.4 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA