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Mother Europe Mama Evropa

Petra Seliškar / Slovenia, North Macedonia, Croatia / 2012 / 90 min / English, Macedonian, Slovene

A humorous creative documentary examining the European borders and the people whose lives are affected by the limits they impose.

With her six-year-old daughter Terra, director Petra Seliškar embarks on a journey along the borders of the Schengen Area. Her camera spotlights the people living along the European borders and the predicaments they face. The main protagonist is Terra, a curious little girl who observes the world around her with genuine interest and approaches people with childlike openness, be it the local fishermen, a punk band or a centenarian writer. Owing to rigid legislation and adverse political circumstances, the people who live on borderland are forced to seek unique solutions with which to normalize their day-to-day existence and question the national and political systems. The film’s protagonists are inspiring individuals who have succeeded in disregarding external borders because having overcome their own inner limitations.

»I’ve always wanted to tell stories in the most honest and simple way, so I made a decision to try and enter a child’s world. It is impossible to enter, because they have their own world and I will never be able to enter there, but I tried. We have been collecting Terra’s paintings and drawings since she was little. With the help of Katrin Ebersohn and Daniel Freymuller we made her vivid fictional stories alive while she was drawing by animating them. This became the key to her world.«
- Petra Seliškar

Petra Seliškar
Born in 1978 in Ljubljana. After pursuing her passion for theatre, she studied directing at the Amsterdam Academy of Film and Television, and grappled with Dutch. She later pursued undergraduate studies in directing and postgraduate studies of production at the Northern Media School in Sheffield, England. In 2003 she founded the Petra Pan Film Production, which primarily produces and distributes documentary films.

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