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Motherland

Year of completion: 1994
Content type: Documentary
Format: Short
Genre: History
Duration: 56 minutes
Production Status: Completed

MOTHERLAND is a documentary shot in black and white which begins as a whimsical portrait of two grandmothers in modern-day Queensland, and goes on to look at their relatives in contemporary Latvia, a year after liberation from Soviet rule. Far from being an 'immigrant experience' program, it is allusive, experimental and emotive, using original Latvian music. It is a study of motherhood, exile and occupation and of how a culture can endure, even over three generations and 12,000 miles.

Completion Year: 1994
Genres: History
Format: Short
Production Status: Completed

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Cast

Ian Henderson, Bart Hosking, Karlis Bienerts

Awards

1994 — International Film Forum 'ARSENAL' – Main Critics Prize

1994 — Chicago International Film Festival – Silver Plaque

1994 — Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films – Best Film

1994 — Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films – The EAC Award

1995 — Ethnic Affairs Commission – Best Documentary

1994 — Australian Cinematographers Society Awards National – Highly Commended - Kriv Stenders

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1994 — International Film Forum 'ARSENAL'

1994 — Chicago International Film Festival

1995 — Dublin Film Festival

1995 — Munich International Documentary Film Festival

1995 — Nordisk Panorama Film Festival

1995 — Norwegian Short Film Event

1994 — Edinburgh International Film Festival

1994 — International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

1995 — Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival

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Motherland Film Productions

Motherland

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