In the late 1970s Aaron Burton's anthropologist mother, Sharon Bell, lived for two years in Sri Lanka researching village life. Together with his cinematographer father, Geoff Burton, they made a series of films documenting this experience. Three decades later, in this journey back to the sites of his parents’ work, Aaron Burton meets people who appeared in the original films and discusses with them their perspective on the films and their lives since that time. My Mother's Village explores how they, like the filmmaker, navigate heredity and inheritance. It is also a poignant reflection on his mother’s research and his father’s art as photographer.