MOTHER EUROPE
synopsis
Terra was born in the Balkans, and learned of the borders very quickly as she immediately started traveling with her mother and father Brand Ferro, a Cuban-Macedonian, with a Macedonian passport. This meant waiting in humiliating lines at embassies for Schengen visas and a bunch of contrasts that the child was exposed to in her short life: like the one between the Balkans, a land of borders, and the borderless EU. This road documentary takes Terra from Skopje to Trieste, through - former Yugoslavia, where she meets various remarkable characters with fascinating stories. One of them is Barich, born in Izola (today in Slovenia) when Trieste and the surrounding area was proclaimed Free Territory and split into two zones by a treaty because of territorial claims between Italy and Yugoslavia.
international title: | Mother Europe |
original title: | Mother Europe |
country: | Slovenia, North Macedonia, Croatia |
year: | 2012 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Petra Seliskar |
cinematography by: | Brand Ferro |
film editing: | Katrin Ebersohn, Bozidar Jovanovic |
music: | John Bonnar, Vladimir Rakic |
producer: | Brand Ferro, Petra Seliskar |
production: | Petra Pan Film Productions |
backing: | Filmski Sklad Republike Slovenije, Macedonian Film Fund |