Portraits

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  Once My Mother

  Australia | 2013 | 57/75min

  Sophia Turkiewicz investigates the reasons why her Polish mother abandoned her in an orphanage and uncovers the truth behind her mother’s wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness. Read More

   
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  Outside

  Ukraine, The Netherlands, Denmark | 2022 | 79 / 58min

  The 7-year journey of Roma, once a poster boy for the Ukrainian Revolution, who is released from the orphanage at 18 into the adult world with nothing but a knife and a lighter. Read More