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Patchwork

East of the West Competition 2021 / Patchwork / Cyprus, Israel, Slovenia 2021

Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. When she strikes up a hesitant friendship with a young girl, she is inexorably forced to confront a painful past and to answer a burning question: Is motherhood a natural state of boundless love and caring, or is it an ideal imposed by society?

Synopsis

Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. But she is unable to describe her feelings of guilt and confusion until she strikes up a hesitant friendship with the daughter of her new boss. The shy and defiant Melina’s difficult life reminds Chara all too much of her own painful past, which she has been trying to forget. Petros Charalambous's psychological drama raises several provocative questions: What makes a woman a mother? And is motherhood a natural state of boundless love and caring, or is it an ideal imposed by society? A multilayered story of a woman struggling through moments of existential angst, as portrayed by the inimitable Angeliki Papoulia.

Sandra Hezinová

About the film

86 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Petros Charalambous / Screenplay Janine Teerling / Dir. of Photography Yorgos Rahmatoulin / Music Christos Kyriakoullis / Editor Stylianos Constantinou, Kyros Papavassiliou / Art Director Lisa Tsouloupas / Producer Janine Teerling, Marios Piperides / Production AMP Filmworks / Coproduction Transfax Film Productions, Perfo Production / Cast Angeliki Papoulia, Joy Rieger, Stella Fyrogeni / Contact AMP Filmworks