Once My Mother (2014)
- Directed by
- Sophia Turkiewicz
- Genre
- documentary film, war film
- Country
- Australia, Ukraine, Poland
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
An Australian filmmaker tries to understand why her Polish mother left her as a child. She traces her mother's World War II story of survival in a Siberian gulag and grapples with whether she can forgive.
introspectiveemotionalquietly intensecontemplativemelancholicpersonalunfoldingsobering
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