Mother Tongue
DOCUMENTARY FILMS • 56m
Four women in their 60's tell of their charged relationships with their late mothers, the power relations in the family, and the relations with their children. Three of them are second-generation Holocaust survivors, and one of Yemenite origin. However, their sincerity eliminates all differences and intertwines their stories into one.
Year: 2018
Language: Hebrew, English subtitles
Director: Shai Aalexandroni
Producer: Shai Alexandroni
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