MO MAMMA
Film - International Independents

MO MAMMA

Directed by Eeva Mägi

Info

Director: Eeva Mägi
Section: International Independents
Country: Estonia
Year: 2023
Language: Estonian
Version: Original version with English subtitles
Cast: Eva Koldits, Helena Lotman
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

A bittersweet drama about three generations at the intersection of past and present.

Mamma is on her deathbed, leaving her daughter Karin and granddaughter Mari to face their own troubled relationship. The house is caught up in a whirlwind of fragmentary memories and scraps of archival footage. Repressed feelings of pain, anger, and love come to the surface.

Show calendar

Calendar

  • After the film: Q&A with Eeva Mägi

    City 3
  • After the film: Q&A with Eeva Mägi

    HFF Kino 1

Meet the director

MO MAMMA

Eeva Mägi

Eeva Mägi studied documentary filmmaking at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School in Tallinn. She has made several short documentary films, including LEMBRI UUDU (2017) and THE WEIGHT OF ALL THE BEAUTY (2019). Her first fictional feature film, MO MAMMA, premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in 2023.

Credits

Screenplay: Eeva Mägi
Original Material: Sten-Johan Lill
Director of Photography: Sten-Johan Lill
Film Editor: Sten-Johan Lill
Composer: Alessandro Malcangi
Production Designer: Allan Appelberg
Costume Design: Ulvi Tiit
Sound: Jan Andresson
Sound design: Gabriel Solis
Make-up artist: Arlin Ratiste
Producer: Marju Lepp, Sten-Johan Lill
Production Company: Filmivabrik, Kinosaurus Film