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Scary Mother (2017)

Scary Mother poster
Original title
საშიში დედა
Directed by
Ana Urushadze
Genre
drama film
Country
Georgia
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
N-13
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A writer and mother struggles to balance her creative work with family responsibilities. She faces judgment from her husband and children as she pursues her art.

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What happens

Scary Mother (Georgian: საშიში დედა; Sashishi Deda) is a 2017 Georgian drama film directed by Ana Urushadze. At the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival, the film won the top prize, the Heart of Sarajevo. It was selected as the Georgian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Actress, Nato Murvanidze won the award for Best Performance by an Actress at the 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Awards for her performance in the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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