An intimate portrait of a refugee woman and her daughter, touching upon personal trauma in a deeply emotional way.“ ”
“A nuanced and compassionate look at the immigration experience.”
HIGH ON FILMS
“A promising start from the Swiss filmmaker.”
FILMUFORIA
“[ein] einfühlsames Porträt einer bemerkenswerten Frauenfigur.”
KiINO-ZEIT
“...a confident portrait of a mother-daughter relationship.”
FILM FEST REPORT
Synopsis
Semret lives a modest and quite isolated life in Zurich with her teenage daughter Joe. She works at a hospital and is applying to a midwife training program. When Joe starts to ask about her own roots from Eritrea, Semret can no longer repress her past and has to confront her traumas. With the help of Yemane, a new hospital employee that is also an Eritrean refugee, she is finally able to face the tragic memories of her escape.
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Director: Caterina Mona
Genre: Drama - Identity, Family, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Eritrean community, Friendship, Trauma
Original title: Semret
Country of production: Switzerland
Year of production: 2022
Length: 85 min
Color: color
Shooting format: HD 2,3K
Screening format: DCP
Original language: Tigrinya, Swiss German
Subtitles: English, Italian, German, French
Cast: Lula Mebrahtu, Tedros Teddy Teclebrhan, Hermela Tekleab, Fanuel Mengstab, Manuela Biedermann, Jocelyn Papp, Mona Petri
Scriptwriter: Caterina Mona
Director of photography: Gabriel Sandru
Production designer: Su Erdt
Editor: Noemi Preiswerk
Sound design: Patrick Becker
Sound mixing: Dominik Avenwedde
Music: Marcel Vaid
Producers: Michela Pini and Pascal Trächslin
Production company: Cinédokké and Cineworx Filmproduktion Basel
Supported by: RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, Federal Office of Culture (Switzerland), Zürcher Filmstiftung, Swisslos-Fonds Basel-Stadt, Swisslos-Fonds Basel-Landschaft, Repubblica e Cantone Ticino, Fondo FilmPlus della Svizzera Italiana, Succès Passage Antenne & more.
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Festivals / Awards
Locarno FF - World Premiere
Cinema Attraverso i Grandi Festival, Italy
Le vie del Cinema, Italy
Terraviva FF, Italy
London Migration FF, UK
Solidarity Human Rights FF, Israel
International Film Festival of Kerala, India
Chennai IFF, India
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Germany
Santa Barbara IFF, USA
Aswan International Women Film Festival, Egypt - Special Mention, Best Actor for Tedros Teclebrhan
Sprouts Film Festival, Netherlands
Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney, Germany
Montreal International Black Film Festival, Canada - Best Narrative Feature
ARTE Kino Festival
Fajr International Film Festival, Iran
Toronto Black Film Festival, Canada
Festival of African Cinema of Verona, Italy
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New Acquisition: SEMRET - World Premiere @ Locarno FF
We are very excited to announce our new acquisition of SEMRET by Caterina Mona. After winning the First Look award at Locarno Film Festival last year, the film will premiere on the Piazza…
13.07.2022
