Calling Mother

Calling Mother

6.5IMDb Score
Released:2019-05-08
Duration:18 min
Country:Finland
Director:Heli Pekkonen, Marianne Mäkelä
Actors:
Production:Zone2 Pictures

Overview:

Calling Mother is about the moments when you just have to call your mum. It is a compilation of phone calls made by different people to their mothers. Film follows the lifespan of a human being from youth to adulthood, a child changing from a dependent to a caretaker. Phone calls are connected by images of an old telephone center and a story of a young mother who doesn’t have a mother to call.

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