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In this new documentary, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles and American Stories, Food, Family and Philosophy) movingly depicts her relationship with her mother, an Auschwitz survivor, whose past and chronic anxiety had an enormous influence on her daughter’s work. Together, they look at their concerns around gender, sex, cultural identity, boredom, loneliness and idiosyncracies. A sober and profoundly intimate portrait of this character in the months before her death. Locarno and Toronto Film Festivals 2015.
Chantal Akerman
Born in Brussels, she is one of the most influential experimental filmmakers alive today. Highlights of her filmography include Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), shown at the Cannes, Venice and Toronto Film Festivals; American Stories, Food, Family and Philosophy (1989), official selection at the Berlin Film Festival; I, You, He, She (1977), Toronto Film Festival; A Whole Night (Berlin 1982); and The Captive (Cannes 2000).